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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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1. Means to influence
affect
hung
daylight saving time
buses
2. Writes or speakers ____s in the words they use
flier
naval
infer
imply
3. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
resident
afterward
heaven
medium
4. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities
widow
resident
people
president
5. When referring to a woman who has attended a school
person
its
among
alumna
6. One who leaves a country ___s from it
federal
between
lie
emigrate
7. Correct spelling for all uses of a word that means to happen or take place
half staff
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
Orient - Oriental
busses
8. An aspect or stage
firefighter - police officer
widower
phase
subject
9. Capitalize their proper names - do not use quotes
who's
reference works
comprise
resident
10. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right
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11. Singular form of problem or turning point
crisis
crises
fewer
principle
12. When referring to a man who has attended a school
imply
alumnus
pore
login - logon - logoff
13. Man to be married
besides
lie
fiance
daylight saving time
14. For essential clauses -important to the meaning of a sentence and without commas. Use when referring to inanimate objects and to animals without a name
buss
hang - hangs
plurality
that
15. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
ravage
fiance
whom
except
16. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
staunch
people
italics
since
17. Writing paper
felony
troops
stationery
infer
18. 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.
Black muslim
who
either
website
19. Spelling for the noun that carries a badge and gun and verb that describes one who keeps things in order
marshal
pour
median
half mast
20. 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.
citizen
stationary
more than
accommodate
21. A first performance
in spite of
primiere
people
who
22. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
wrack
defendant
stationary
further
23. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
login - logon - logoff
drowned
badly
troupe
24. Means in a hopeful manner. Do not use to mean it is hoped - let us hope or we hope - right: It is hoped we will complete our work in June. wrong: Hopefully - we will complete our work in June.
refute
hopefully
emigrate
each other
25. All tenses of the word that means a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
rock 'n' roll
naval
fewer
26. 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
arrest
website
farther
beside
27. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
widow
drowned
defendant
like
28. Plural form of problem or turning point
emigrate
crises
bad
either...or - neither...nor
29. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
ravish
bad
compliment
flout
30. Verb to stop the flow of something
lay
collide - collision
accommodate
stanch
31. To embarrass or disturb
defendant
faze
on
who
32. Avoid the use of last as a synonym for latest if it might imply finality - this word is unnecessary to imply the most recent if there is a month or day used.
hanged
immigrate
last
hopefully
33. A minor offense against the law
reference works
misdemeanor
ravish
homicide
34. When referring to a group of women who attended a school
hopefully
alumnae
besides
sneaked
35. 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.
demolish or destroyed
Internet
collide - collision
login - logon - logoff
36. The title of an individual who is the first minister in a national government that has a council of ministers. also the correct title for individuals who lead the provincial governments in canada and australia
premier
norm
immigrate
century
37. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
nicknames
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
demolish or destroyed
figuratively
38. Copy pertaining to the navy
naval
impostor
aide
lie
39. On ships and at naval stations flags are flown at
courtesy titles
half mast
last
medium
40. Individual items reduced in number
that
aid
forward
fewer
41. Capitalize initials of name but do not place in quotes
imply
except
Cabinet
magazine names
42. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
president
principle
busses
person
43. 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
hang - hangs
composition titles
federal
in spite of
44. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
troupe
liaison
felony
heaven
45. Transportation vehicle
flounder
like
bus
magazine names
46. Means to guarantee
navel
ensure
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
Internet
47. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
composition titles
firefighter - police officer
because
collide - collision
48. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
accommodate
hopefully
navel
beside
49. Also Independence Day. The federal legal holiday is observed on Friday if July 4 falls on a Saturday - on Monday if it falls on a Sunday.
murder
Fourth of July
either
flaunt
50. The proper name for some trains and buses
among
faze
president
flyer
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