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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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journalism-and-media
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Contain to include all or embrace. Used only actively.
comprise
her
semiannual
heaven
2. Verb to stop the flow of something
defendant
beside
stanch
firefighter - police officer
3. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
ravish
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
manslaughter
hanged
4. Always preferred over persons - persons only used when it's in a direct quote - also a collective noun when referring to a single race or nation so peoples should only be used when speaking of multiple groups
fiance
people
stationary
rack
5. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
daylight saving time
criteria
flare
infer
6. Means to flow in a continuous stream
pour
federal
off of
person
7. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
its
alumni
faze
Cabinet
8. All nouns that mean different computer functions. Must use these in two words when in verb form.
login - logon - logoff
alumnae
criterion
whom
9. To be used instead of the sexist terms
native
firefighter - police officer
badly
magazine names
10. Individual items reduced in number
people
pore
fewer
biennial
11. Use with great care - Avoid any suggestion that the writer is making an allegation - Specify the source of an allegation (arrest record etc.) - Use alleged bribe or similar phrase when necessary to make it clear that an unproved action is not being
teenage
people
in spite of
allege
12. Should not be used as an adverb - use only as adjective. "I feel badly" - could be interpreted as meaning that your sense of touch was bad.
badly
rock 'n' roll
login - logon - logoff
one another
13. AP does not italicize words in news stories.
badly
bad
Internet
italics
14. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
literally
lie
adviser
felony
15. Correct spelling for a word that means a channel for communication between groups
drowned
that
liaison
alumnus
16. References to insurance
stationary
insure
native
criterion
17. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
impostor
National Organization for Women
all right
principal
18. A picture - a criminal or oneself
flier
hang - hangs
further
No.
19. Noun. a fish - verb. to move clumsily or jerkily - to flop about
people
flounder
principal
staunch
20. To abduct - rape or carry away with emotion not interchangeable with ravage
literally
altar
crises
ravish
21. Means in an exact sense
whom
alumnus
literally
was drowned
22. A location on the World Wide Web that maintains one or more pages at a specific address. Also webcam - webcast - and webmaster. But as a short form and in terms with separate words - the Web - Web page and Web feed.
No.
phase
website
compliment
23. Use the abbreviation for number in conjunction with a figure to indicate position or rank
National Organization for Women
No.
citizen
over
24. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
afterward
widow
allege
rock 'n' roll
25. To avoid any suggestion that someone is being judged before a trial - do not use a phrase such as arrested for killing. Instead - use arrested on a charge of killing. If a charge hasn't been filed - arrested on suspicion of - or a similar phrase - sh
flair
in spite of
arrest
since
26. Refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added together
its
average
compliment
semiannual
27. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
resident
collide - collision
flair
buss
28. Action word - past tense is laid - present participle is laying
lay
rack
manslaughter
Nobel Prize
29. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
nicknames
stationary
navel
troops
30. Kisses
busses
comprise
affect
less
31. A person who has acquired the full civil rights of a nation either by birth or naturalization. Cities and states in the U.S. do not confer citizenship.
troupe
speeds
citizen
courtesy titles
32. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
federal
president
national
crisis
33. Books - computer games - movies - operas - plays - poems - albums and songs - radio and tv programs - lectures - speeches and works of art should all: - capitalize principal words - capitalize an article - quotes around these works that are not: reli
widow
whom
composition titles
buss
34. Generally refers to spatial relationships (not numerals)
over
beside
biannual
muslims
35. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
alumni
accommodate
drowned
medium
36. When speaking of an individual
person
magazine names
national
alumna
37. A first performance
whose
email
primiere
was drowned
38. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
ravage
flair
on
in spite of
39. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
principle
farther
literally
compliment
40. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
medium
sneaked
accommodate
buss
41. Never forwards to explain moving toward a position ahead
forward
either
literally
busses
42. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
as
whose
liaison
ZIP code
43. Means in addition to
courtesy titles
besides
buss
ZIP code
44. In its sense used in arithmetic and statistics - is an average and is determined by adding the series of numbers and dividing the sum by the number of cases
bus
hang - hangs
mean
alter
45. An aspect or stage
more than
phase
half staff
since
46. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right
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47. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
City Hall
refute
Legislature
toward
48. Is the possessive of who
liaison
besides
whose
manslaughter
49. A member of a predominantly black Islamic sect in the United States. However the term is considered DEROGATORY by members of the sect - who call themselves muslims
each
faze
composition titles
Black muslim
50. A table-like platform used in a religious service
login - logon - logoff
compliment
Legislature
altar