JRN 300: Ap Style Quiz Follow-Up

For that assignment, my intent was for you to get a refresher on some common AP style points and a reintroduction to your AP stylebook, to which I will expect you to confirm this summer.

Because that was the intent, if you turned in the quiz you got an automatic 4.0. If you did not, your grade is a 0.0. There will be no makeup opportunity, and that will damage your final grade in this class. As I noted earlier, we have so few assignments in this class and since journalism is a deadline business, we cannot miss ANY deadline.

Here are some key points I want you to take out of the AP quiz:

• Generally numbers one through nine are spelled out like that: one and nine. Ten and above n numeric form: 10, 11, 12.
• An exception to that is when a number starts a sentence. Then, numbers should be spelled out: Twelve days ago, I died.
• Another exception is ages. They should always be in numeric form: a 4-year-old.
• When you have a numbered street address, abbreviate direction and type of byway: Omar lives at 123 N. Sesame St.
• When there is no number in the address, spell it all out: Omar lives on North Sesame Street.
• Money should generally be in numeric form, led by the dollar symbol and not followed by the word dollar: Omar lost $10,000 at the casino.
• Punctuation goes inside of quote marks, like this: "Omar is dumb," said Omar's mother. "Why?" Omar asked.
• Do NOT use quote makes of italics around the names of periodicals (publications that come out on a scheduled basis, like newspapers and magazines). It's just The Detroit Free Press, not "The Detroit Free Press" or The Detroit Free Press.
• Do put quote marks around content pieces that just come out once, like books and movies. Again, not italics.