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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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Subject
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
Black muslim
less
resident
felony
2. Kisses
people
each other
federal
busses
3. A group of people - often military or animals
adviser
Cabinet
one another
troop
4. A preposition to compare nouns and pronouns. requires an object - ex. Jayne blocks ___ a pro.
like
affect
buss
it's
5. One who comes into a country ___s to it
criterion
composition titles
immigrate
murder
6. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
courtesy titles
norm
like
affect
7. Homicide without malice or premeditation
manslaughter
bus
City Council
alumnae
8. Refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added together
criteria
hang - hangs
average
marshal
9. 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.
marshall
median
Orient - Oriental
website
10. NOW is acceptable on second reference- HQ is in Washington
under way
National Organization for Women
infer
wrack
11. Verb to stop the flow of something
stanch
lie
which
under way
12. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
pour
stationery
principle
biennial
13. 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.
flout
hopefully
effect
hanged
14. Man to be married
refute
fiance
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
busses
15. Takes plural verb - use it to mean one or the other - not both - right: she said to use either door - wrong: there were lions on either side of the door
website
either
speeds
reference works
16. 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
people
under way
less
homicide
17. Is acceptable on first reference to avoid a cumbersome lead - but provide the full name in the body of the story - HQ is in Baltimore
further
rebut
hang - hangs
NAACP
18. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
it's
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
as
fiancee
19. Is used when someone is the object of a verb or preposition
firefighter - police officer
whom
affect
flay
20. For hanging not referring to a person's death
hung
half mast
crises
who's
21. Means at the side of
beside
defendant
figuratively
afterward
22. Never towards - for a word meaning: moving in a specific direction
Internet
toward
complement
murder
23. Means more than half of an amount
majority
forward
fiance
was drowned
24. 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
in spite of
people
except
25. Correct spelling for one who deceives by using a false identity
City Hall
whom
impostor
adviser
26. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
farther
principal
City Council
alumni
27. Writing paper
ravish
hang - hangs
stationery
speeds
28. 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
which
bus
refute
misdemeanor
29. Means to make sure or give confidence
liaison
principal
over
assure
30. A picture - a criminal or oneself
hang - hangs
amid
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
Nobel Prize
31. Should only be used in place of the person's name if it is what the individual prefers to be known as.
nicknames
buses
Internet
flay
32. Is the middle number of points in a series arranged in order of size
hang - hangs
hopefully
its
median
33. Kiss
alumnae
muslims
buss
norm
34. Do not use the term teenaged
teenage
plurality
ravage
flout
35. Singular form of a standard
criterion
president
courtesy titles
premier
36. Means to flow in a continuous stream
which
pour
emigrate
each
37. Plural form of a standard
average
firefighter - police officer
criteria
half staff
38. Takes a singular verb
criteria
heaven
plurality
each
39. An aspect or stage
whose
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
person
phase
40. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
rack
lie
drowned
under way
41. Individual items reduced in number
either...or - neither...nor
century
navel
fewer
42. Means to influence
who's
afterward
hopefully
affect
43. Means to exclude
except
flaunt
marshal
semiannual
44. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
widower
under way
Black muslim
Legislature
45. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
off of
assure
collide - collision
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
46. 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.
Fourth of July
between
average
over
47. In the sense of mass communication - such as magazines - newspapers - the news services - radio - television ad online
affect
which
media
courtesy titles
48. Plural form of problem or turning point
No.
complement
infer
crises
49. A minor offense against the law
misdemeanor
more than
aid
affect
50. Copy pertaining to the navy
principle
naval
reference works
beside