Monday, January 30, 2017

JRN 300: An AP Style Quiz

Time for an AP quiz! This will serve as a refresher from what you learned about AP style in JRN 200. You will be expected to conform to AP style rules in all JRN 300 assignments going forward.

Please cut and paste these sentences to a Word document and then fix the following content as needed to conform with AP style. THIS IS AN OPEN-BOOK EXERCISE; DO USE YOUR AP STYLEBOOK TO LOOK UP ANSWERS AS NEEDED! But do work alone; no sharing of answers, please.

Then, please email the document WITH YOUR NAME AT THE TOP OF THE DOCUMENT via email to omars@msu.edu under the subject line of AP QUIZ. Your deadline will be no later than 8 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 2. Good luck!


1. 32 tourists from the state of Ark. lost two thousand dollars at the casino on August 13th.

2. 60 percent of last Summer's tornadoes killed twenty-three people.

3. Meet me at 123 North Sesame Street in Detroit, Mic. at 10 pm.

4. I read in "Sports Illustrated" magazine that the F.B.I. spied on fans at Ford Field last Winter.

5. I drove down interstate 75 to Detroit on December 12.

6. The Juniors all quit school and joined the US Army after the sgt. convinced them to do so.

7. Should I major in english of french? Either way, I need to drop my Sociology class.

8. I need to call my realtor to see if I can buy that house for five thousand dollars.

9. The President lost the election to Doctor Joe Schmo.

10. The eight year old child was kidnapped by a man driving a ford S.U.V. at the corner of Main street and College avenue.

11. I joined N.A.S.A. when I was thirty years old, after I retired from the U.S. navy.

12. Tuition will cost me $12000 this year.

13. The book, "I Was A Teenage Zombie," was awful, Sergeant Sally Smith said.

14. I am 100% sure that is correct.

15. I looked on the Center for Disease Control website and it says you must have alzheimer's disease.

16. The Jury found the nazis guilty of starting world war 2.

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