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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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1. Means to guarantee
ensure
titles
stationary
half mast
2. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
as
besides
accept
Orient - Oriental
3. Proper spelling and capitalization for a Christian afterlife
heaven
citizen
buss
its
4. Extension of time or degree
stationary
further
comprise
century
5. To embarrass or disturb
buss
faze
alumni
stanch
6. Physical distance
farther
courtesy titles
flyer
century
7. A person who gives advice - never advisor
imply
ensure
staunch
adviser
8. Correct spelling for all uses of a word that means to happen or take place
alumnae
murder
flay
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
9. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
sneaked
busses
media
daylight saving time
10. An aspect or stage
wrack
Internet
beside
phase
11. A picture - a criminal or oneself
hang - hangs
toward
principal
hung
12. Bulk or quantity reduced in number
NAACP
president
lay
less
13. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
fewer
liaison
medium
troops
14. A group of people - often military or animals
troop
that
fiance
ravish
15. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
last
effect
since
widower
16. To abduct - rape or carry away with emotion not interchangeable with ravage
flyer
ravish
hang - hangs
compliment
17. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
because
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
among
emigrate
18. Takes a singular verb
each other
imply
each
it's
19. To change
alter
subject
imply
that
20. Is the middle number of points in a series arranged in order of size
median
crises
hopefully
president
21. Preferred with numerals (instead of over)
founder
more than
farther
was drowned
22. 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
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
National Organization for Women
national
23. NOW is acceptable on second reference- HQ is in Washington
login - logon - logoff
among
National Organization for Women
alumni
24. Ashore and not on naval stations flags are flown at
national
Cabinet
half staff
plurality
25. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.
all right
it's
fewer
pore
26. A table-like platform used in a religious service
amid
altar
speeds
literally
27. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
norm
refute
staunch
since
28. Is a contraction of who is - no possessive
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29. Not afterwards
assure
afterward
rebut
Cabinet
30. 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.
Internet
plurality
criterion
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
31. Two words in virtually all uses - one word only when used as an adjective before a noun in a nautical sense: an underway flotilla
lay
wrack
under way
further
32. When referring to a group of men or men and women who attended a school
biannual
demolish or destroyed
which
alumni
33. AP does not italicize words in news stories.
italics
century
rock 'n' roll
ZIP code
34. A contraction for it is or it has
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35. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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36. Means at the side of
beside
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
rebut
troupe
37. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
fewer
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
last
in-law
38. One who comes into a country ___s to it
figuratively
ravage
amid
immigrate
39. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
defendant
one another
emigrate
forward
40. Books - computer games - movies - operas - plays - poems - albums and songs - radio and tv programs - lectures - speeches and works of art should all: - capitalize principal words - capitalize an article - quotes around these works that are not: reli
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
infer
composition titles
literally
41. Plural form of problem or turning point
fiance
crises
average
his
42. Do not use before a date or day of the week (redundant) except at the beginning of a sentence.
premier
resident
bad
on
43. Despite means the same thing and is shorter
medium
as
in spite of
ensure
44. Do not use the term teenaged
flounder
teenage
who
ravage
45. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
federal
flier
naval
staunch
46. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
beside
speeds
compliment
marshall
47. Introduces more than two items - all pronouns must be in the objective case - among us
each
aid
login - logon - logoff
among
48. Both mean to do away with something completely. It cannot happen partially and is redundant to say it happened totally.
demolish or destroyed
plurality
reference works
drowned
49. The of is unnecessary
drowned
arrest
lay
off of
50. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
drowned
stationery
principle
widower