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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. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
hung
felony
biennial
alter
2. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.
Legislature
troop
either
wrack
3. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
alumna
alumnae
effect
ravage
4. 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.
hopefully
like
liaison
lie
5. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.
all right
pore
ensure
composition titles
6. To be used instead of the sexist terms
nicknames
firefighter - police officer
muslims
effect
7. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
either
Fourth of July
infer
reference works
8. A table-like platform used in a religious service
arrest
altar
toward
amid
9. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.
Black muslim
subject
compose
median
10. Two people look at - can be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
last
each other
demolish or destroyed
amid
11. For non essential clauses - where the pronoun is less necessary and use commas. use when referring to inanimate objects and to animals without a name
biennial
which
stationary
No.
12. 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
website
drowned
daylight saving time
Legislature
13. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
buss
lay
rack
Legislature
14. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
accept
median
emigrate
compliment
15. To bog down become disabled or sink
founder
Fourth of July
crisis
liaison
16. To embarrass or disturb
pore
between
faze
flier
17. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
lie
daylight saving time
semiannual
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
18. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.
City Council
hopefully
Fourth of July
either
19. Do not use when referring to East Asian nations and their peoples. Asian is the acceptable term for an inhabitant of these nations
stationary
who's
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
Orient - Oriental
20. Kisses
homicide
firefighter - police officer
NAACP
busses
21. A group of people - often military or animals
criteria
reference works
troop
subject
22. Proper spelling and capitalization for a Christian afterlife
heaven
manslaughter
resident
emigrate
23. Copy pertaining to the navy
comprise
NAACP
naval
its
24. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities
resident
ravish
whom
affect
25. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
century
marshal
flair
resident
26. Despite means the same thing and is shorter
infer
sneaked
her
in spite of
27. Not afterwards
afterward
her
over
infer
28. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
busses
since
president
adviser
29. Completeness of process of supplementing something
complement
navel
login - logon - logoff
ZIP code
30. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions
speeds
ensure
media
medium
31. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
either...or - neither...nor
principle
login - logon - logoff
hang - hangs
32. When speaking of an individual
principal
principle
buss
person
33. One who comes into a country ___s to it
native
staunch
immigrate
hung
34. To show contempt for
flout
whose
email
biannual
35. When referring to a group of women who attended a school
alumnae
misdemeanor
in-law
mean
36. AP does not italicize words in news stories.
flaunt
italics
staunch
norm
37. 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
mean
principle
over
effect
38. Takes a singular verb
each
widow
accommodate
literally
39. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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40. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
drowned
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
principle
allege
41. Means at the side of
was drowned
beside
medium
sneaked
42. 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
ZIP code
more than
imply
pour
43. A picture - a criminal or oneself
principal
hang - hangs
italics
his
44. Should only be used in place of the person's name if it is what the individual prefers to be known as.
stationary
nicknames
toward
norm
45. Two words in virtually all uses - one word only when used as an adjective before a noun in a nautical sense: an underway flotilla
under way
troops
City Council
on
46. References to insurance
insure
biannual
National Organization for Women
like
47. Do not use the term teenaged
composition titles
teenage
immigrate
further
48. 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.
median
hung
ensure
website
49. In general - confine capitalization to formal titles used directly before an individual's name
over
immigrate
titles
impostor
50. To change
refute
immigrate
alter
accept