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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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journalism-and-media
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Not afterwards
founder
hung
afterward
resident
2. To bog down become disabled or sink
alumna
badly
naval
founder
3. In general - confine capitalization to formal titles used directly before an individual's name
rebut
titles
italics
citizen
4. Do not use before a date or day of the week (redundant) except at the beginning of a sentence.
Cabinet
average
fiance
on
5. A decentralized worldwide network of computers that can communicate with each other in later references the Net is acceptable - World Wide Web - like email - is a subset of the Internet. They are not synonymous and should not be used interchangeably.
under way
impostor
login - logon - logoff
Internet
6. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
muslims
flout
one another
bad
7. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
who
hang - hangs
allege
wrack
8. Plural form of problem or turning point
flaunt
crises
median
like
9. 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
reference works
ravish
people
felony
10. 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
alumni
allege
in-law
drowned
11. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
citizen
federal
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
troop
12. References to insurance
accept
ravish
troops
insure
13. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.
City Council
as
lay
all right
14. Spelling for the noun that carries a badge and gun and verb that describes one who keeps things in order
marshal
manslaughter
magazine names
wrack
15. A person who serves as an assistant
accommodate
each
aide
figuratively
16. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions
pour
speeds
Cabinet
complement
17. A person who gives advice - never advisor
adviser
last
in spite of
beside
18. Copy pertaining to the navy
aid
naval
president
login - logon - logoff
19. Applied to a person residing away from the nation of which he or she is a citizen - or to a person under the protection of a specified nation.
national
pore
firefighter - police officer
amid
20. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
native
since
City Hall
buss
21. A verb meaning to blaze with sudden - bright light or to burst out in anger
one another
flair
flare
Legislature
22. Means more than the highest number (subtract lower number from highest number to get this)
rack
under way
plurality
half mast
23. A group of people - often military or animals
felony
National Organization for Women
troop
among
24. Not savings - no hyphen - when linking term with the name of a time zone - use only the word daylight (capitalize only when used with a time zone) - lowercase in all uses
emigrate
homicide
adviser
daylight saving time
25. Means at the side of
flaunt
beside
flair
magazine names
26. Kisses
founder
bad
busses
flounder
27. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
toward
principal
widower
refute
28. To change
more than
hang - hangs
aid
alter
29. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
hanged
courtesy titles
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
staunch
30. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
refute
flare
resident
aid
31. Do not use this pronoun in reference to nations or ships except in quoted matter
all right
her
because
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
32. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
which
one another
in spite of
its
33. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
liaison
widow
wrack
bus
34. Two words in virtually all uses - one word only when used as an adjective before a noun in a nautical sense: an underway flotilla
last
insure
Internet
under way
35. An aspect or stage
daylight saving time
literally
flyer
phase
36. Noun. a fish - verb. to move clumsily or jerkily - to flop about
buses
Legislature
flounder
compliment
37. 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.
firefighter - police officer
website
less
flyer
38. Means more than half of an amount
majority
buses
hanged
infer
39. One who leaves a country ___s from it
emigrate
teenage
last
phase
40. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
compliment
flaunt
flair
either...or - neither...nor
41. Introduces more than two items - all pronouns must be in the objective case - among us
subject
figuratively
compose
among
42. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
between
navel
flyer
pour
43. Means to cause or as a noun means a result
crises
effect
each other
majority
44. Only for ensembles of actors - dancers - singers - etc.
either
troupe
stanch
liaison
45. Verb to stop the flow of something
flounder
primiere
stanch
afterward
46. Physical distance
hang - hangs
daylight saving time
farther
phase
47. When referring to a man who has attended a school
aide
mean
defendant
alumnus
48. Despite means the same thing and is shorter
in spite of
website
alumni
off of
49. Use all-caps ZIP for zoning improvement plan - but always lowercase the word code - run the 5 digits together without a comma and do not put a comma between state name and ZIP
afterward
its
ZIP code
felony
50. When referring to a woman who has attended a school
Legislature
alumna
on
half staff