How to Write in AP Style

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Tip 1 - Learning Basic AP Style

Published: 9 years, 9 month(s) ago | Submitted by Gene Litt | permalink

The Basics of Associated Press Style

For further reading: http://journalism.about.com/od/writing/a/apstyle.htm ^[1]

Tip 2 - 11 AP Style Guide Rules That Are Easy to Mess Up - Tuts+ Business Article

Published: 9 years, 9 month(s) ago | Submitted by Bill Du Laney | permalink

When I was in journalism school (in both the late 1990s and mid 2000s), the AP Stylebook was our bible. We didn’t go to class without it and frequently had quizzes and assignments built around it.  I recently wrote a blog post about the future of journalism and how astonished I was to learn that my undergraduate journalism students were never made to even purchase their own copy of the AP Stylebook, let alone use it.  If you are going to write for a newspaper (even some magazines) you need to have your AP Style Guide handy. And the more current the style guide the better. So when I found this article at Ragan.com about frequently botched AP style points, I thought I’d share them. | Tags: Style Guides, Writing, Communication, Journalism

For further reading: http://business.tutsplus.com/articles/11-ap-style-guide-rules-that-are-easy-to-mess-up--fsw-27489 ^[2]