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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. Means to gaze intently or steadily
emigrate
pore
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
bus
2. 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
widower
allege
drowned
beside
3. Generally refers to spatial relationships (not numerals)
accommodate
over
titles
alter
4. Both mean to do away with something completely. It cannot happen partially and is redundant to say it happened totally.
demolish or destroyed
medium
alumni
daylight saving time
5. Plural means several groups of people - often military or animals
accept
troops
allege
whose
6. 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.
defendant
over
either...or - neither...nor
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
7. Man to be married
phase
fiance
national
besides
8. To embarrass or disturb
compose
faze
either
daylight saving time
9. To argue to the contrary
rebut
ravage
president
native
10. 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
each other
italics
flaunt
11. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
collide - collision
alumnus
courtesy titles
fewer
12. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities
adviser
login - logon - logoff
resident
his
13. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
citizen
beside
drowned
pour
14. All nouns that mean different computer functions. Must use these in two words when in verb form.
farther
alumna
accommodate
login - logon - logoff
15. Adjective stopped - firm and steadfast
president
toward
staunch
because
16. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
complement
founder
City Hall
farther
17. Correct punctuation and spelling for family relative by marriage
teenage
in-law
plurality
among
18. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.
all right
crises
fiance
stationery
19. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions
troupe
compliment
criteria
speeds
20. Physical distance
medium
farther
demolish or destroyed
fiancee
21. Two people look at - can be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
rack
each other
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
Cabinet
22. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
because
drowned
half staff
refute
23. Is used when someone is the object of a verb or preposition
hanged
marshall
whom
since
24. Completeness of process of supplementing something
over
off of
complement
native
25. Do not use when referring to East Asian nations and their peoples. Asian is the acceptable term for an inhabitant of these nations
immigrate
lay
Orient - Oriental
teenage
26. Personal pronoun describing the deity are lowercase
who's
farther
his
alumnus
27. A group of people - often military or animals
troop
less
accommodate
person
28. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
one another
beside
navel
figuratively
29. To swing the arms widely
rebut
flair
firefighter - police officer
Cabinet
30. Applied to a person residing away from the nation of which he or she is a citizen - or to a person under the protection of a specified nation.
federal
immigrate
national
flout
31. For hanging not referring to a person's death
flare
that
hung
lay
32. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
widow
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
flyer
principal
33. Never towards - for a word meaning: moving in a specific direction
pore
toward
busses
infer
34. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
last
was drowned
email
35. Means to flow in a continuous stream
pour
staunch
arrest
courtesy titles
36. 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.
alumnae
less
ensure
citizen
37. Create or put together. It is commonly used actively and passively.
bad
compose
ravish
alumnae
38. Means to receive
aide
marshall
forward
accept
39. One who comes into a country ___s to it
troop
flaunt
immigrate
farther
40. 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
compose
murder
defendant
affect
41. Is the possessive of who
bus
italics
whose
National Organization for Women
42. Copy pertaining to the navy
naval
over
altar
composition titles
43. A specific body of advisers heading executive departments for a president - king - governor - etc
widower
bus
Cabinet
person
44. 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.
demolish or destroyed
hopefully
ravage
who
45. Individual items reduced in number
fewer
flair
mean
crises
46. Means more than half of an amount
majority
principle
amid
insure
47. Is the middle number of points in a series arranged in order of size
median
drowned
murder
accommodate
48. 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.
pour
citizen
City Council
last
49. Means to cause or as a noun means a result
staunch
effect
demolish or destroyed
pore
50. Twice a year (same as semiannual)
biannual
drowned
medium
immigrate