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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide

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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






2. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.






3. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish






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.






5. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.






6. To be used instead of the sexist terms






7. A listener or reader ____s something from the words






8. A table-like platform used in a religious service






9. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.






10. Two people look at - can be used when the number of people being used is indefinite






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






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






13. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -






14. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy






15. To bog down become disabled or sink






16. To embarrass or disturb






17. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly






18. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.






19. Do not use when referring to East Asian nations and their peoples. Asian is the acceptable term for an inhabitant of these nations






20. Kisses






21. A group of people - often military or animals






22. Proper spelling and capitalization for a Christian afterlife






23. Copy pertaining to the navy






24. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities






25. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10






26. Despite means the same thing and is shorter






27. Not afterwards






28. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause






29. Completeness of process of supplementing something






30. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions






31. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force






32. When speaking of an individual






33. One who comes into a country ___s to it






34. To show contempt for






35. When referring to a group of women who attended a school






36. AP does not italicize words in news stories.






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






38. Takes a singular verb






39. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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40. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid






41. Means at the side of






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






43. A picture - a criminal or oneself






44. Should only be used in place of the person's name if it is what the individual prefers to be known as.






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






46. References to insurance






47. Do not use the term teenaged






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.






49. In general - confine capitalization to formal titles used directly before an individual's name






50. To change