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Ron
Hartung and Gerald Grow's
Newsroom 101.com |
A Newsroom-Classroom Collaboration
Exercises
in Grammar, Usage
and Associated Press Style |
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These free, self-instructional exercises are based
on issues of grammar, usage and AP style that arose at a daily
newspaper. They are offered here for people who are learning
or reviewing journalistic language.
Teachers are invited to assign students to practice
these exercises, but there is no provision for a teacher to track
student performance.
Please note: Many of the exercises apply to English
in general, but some of them apply only to journalistic language
as governed by The
Associated Press Stylebook and may differ from standard
English usage.
When an explanation refers to "the official dictionary,"
that is Webster's New World College Dictionary, the AP's
first reference for anything not covered in the Stylebook itself.
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Other Resources
Online
Exercises from ACES, the American Copy Editor
Society.
Tips
on writing, editing, AP style, etc., from ACES.
Learning
Lay and Lie, by Gerald Grow
"When Journalism Students Don't Know Grammar,"
by Gerald Grow, article in Insights, the journal of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, Spring 2006.
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Credits
The examples and answers came from Ron
Hartung of the Tallahassee Democrat -- grammar consultant,
newsroom coach, intern mentor and author of the weekly "Traffic
Doctor"column.
These exercises were edited and put online by Gerald
Grow -- professor of journalism at Florida A&M University
and internationally unrecognized cartoonist -- who has also added
new material to the site. Please report to him any errors in
the quizzes or problems with the quiz software.
This material is copyrighted, but at
this time you may use it without additional permission for non-commercial
educational purposes.
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Grow's Home Page
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some socially redeeming purpose like buying a copy of the AP
Stylebook or going out for a sandwich and discussing the finer
points of grammar.
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