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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. Every two years
widower
hang - hangs
biennial
demolish or destroyed
2. Means to make sure or give confidence
bad
national
assure
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
3. The term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
whom
native
buss
effect
4. 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
Legislature
immigrate
daylight saving time
average
5. 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
her
widower
principle
6. A contraction for it is or it has
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7. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.
further
Internet
who
Legislature
8. The nouns that follow these words do not constitute a compound subject; they are alternate subjects and require a verb that agrees with the nearer subject - Neither they nor he is going - Neither he nor they are going.
either...or - neither...nor
buss
badly
rack
9. 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.
felony
troupe
media
Internet
10. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
because
immigrate
faze
firefighter - police officer
11. Singular form of problem or turning point
reference works
alumni
emigrate
crisis
12. To be used instead of the sexist terms
medium
Fourth of July
off of
firefighter - police officer
13. Transportation vehicle
bus
affect
all right
because
14. AP does not italicize words in news stories.
italics
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
flair
reference works
15. Noun. a fish - verb. to move clumsily or jerkily - to flop about
all right
Black muslim
Orient - Oriental
flounder
16. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
assure
on
felony
murder
17. Do not use when referring to East Asian nations and their peoples. Asian is the acceptable term for an inhabitant of these nations
Orient - Oriental
daylight saving time
flout
except
18. To bog down become disabled or sink
reference works
all right
founder
wrack
19. To make an ostentatious or defiant display
afterward
murder
flaunt
titles
20. Plural form of a standard
literally
criteria
firefighter - police officer
troops
21. To show contempt for
refute
ravage
stationery
flout
22. When speaking of an individual
navel
demolish or destroyed
stationery
person
23. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
italics
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
half mast
National Organization for Women
24. Adjective stopped - firm and steadfast
pore
sneaked
national
staunch
25. Correct spelling for all uses of a word that means to happen or take place
refute
native
all right
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
26. Not amidst for a word that means surrounded by; in the middle of
flare
phase
amid
composition titles
27. Man to be married
staunch
refute
fiance
in-law
28. One who comes into a country ___s to it
aid
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
immigrate
subject
29. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
Cabinet
bad
medium
drowned
30. Do not use the term teenaged
teenage
medium
sneaked
hung
31. Both mean to do away with something completely. It cannot happen partially and is redundant to say it happened totally.
NAACP
buss
farther
demolish or destroyed
32. Correct spelling for one who deceives by using a false identity
troops
impostor
Nobel Prize
alumnae
33. Means more than half of an amount
president
majority
italics
Nobel Prize
34. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
Cabinet
majority
its
in spite of
35. Means in an exact sense
email
alumni
allege
literally
36. Capitalize as a title and lowercase in all other forms
daylight saving time
aide
manslaughter
president
37. Completeness of process of supplementing something
all right
comprise
complement
criteria
38. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
ZIP code
president
medium
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
39. In the sense of mass communication - such as magazines - newspapers - the news services - radio - television ad online
hopefully
website
imply
media
40. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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41. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
rack
website
allege
aide
42. Introduces more than two items - all pronouns must be in the objective case - among us
rebut
among
aide
either...or - neither...nor
43. Assistance
premier
aid
hang - hangs
City Hall
44. Physical distance
farther
City Hall
citizen
manslaughter
45. Means to receive
further
figuratively
accept
native
46. 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
whom
president
phase
allege
47. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
teenage
compliment
busses
each
48. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
person
Nobel Prize
troop
principal
49. Takes a singular verb
insure
ravage
allege
each
50. Malicious - premeditated homicide - some states define certain homicides as this if the killing occurs in the course of armed robbery - rape - etc. - do not say a victim was ____ed unless it was proven in court - instead say the victim was killed or
murder
infer
naval
which
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