Over at Freelance Switch, there is an interesting article about Yahoo’s new stylebook being published in an effort to help establish writing standards for online content. As the article correctly points out, most sites currently follow the journalistic rules and suggestions found within the Associated Press Stylebook, or AP Stylebook. The conventions laid out within [...]
What are the rules for writing AP Sytle with abbreviations and acronyms?
This month has seen an increase in the number of articles written using the word “Trojan”, mostly thanks to Microsoft’s Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) being leaked as a torrent on various trackers around the world. Subsequent news suggested that some of the downloads were infected with malware, specifically a “trojan.” Spellcheck on every product [...]
So, what started out as a simple no-brainer article written for a few bucks in order to make enough money freelance writing online to beat out my income from freelance writing offline for the first time, turned out to be an Adventure in AP Style. BlackBerries On Airplanes I can’t honestly tell you what the [...]
The Associated Press Stylebook is the gold standard for journalistic (non-academic) style writing. The concepts of AP Style, for the most part, simply mirror those of good grammar and writing that is not wordy or overly flowery. Still, there are multiple concepts, examples, specific exceptions, and bizarre conventions that stump even seasoned writers with years [...]
Ah, the good old AP Stylebook , source of answers for professional writers everywhere. On some days, it seems there is nothing it doesn’t know. On other days, you can’t help but wonder why in the world it doesn’t have what you are looking for. Since it is tax season, we venture into the latter [...]
Today’s project sent me to my now well worn AP Stylebook. The question? Carseat or car seat. Spell check despises carseat (it’s underlined right now with that angry red squiggly line), but I thought for sure that was how it was used. Survey says? Oops. It isn’t in the AP Stylebook. “Car pool” is in [...]
