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AP Stylebook, 2004 edition
The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, usually called the AP Stylebook, is the primary style and usage guide for most newspapers and newsmagazines in the United States. The stylebook is edited by longtime AP editor Norm Goldstein, and it is updated annually, usually in June. The 2006 edition is more than 400 pages long.

Topics

The stylebook covers a variety of topics, including:
  • Grammar, punctuation and spelling. For example, AP style does not use a serial comma before the last item in a list — that is, AP writes "red, white and blue," not "red, white, and blue."
  • AP style on a variety of questions, such as whether to convert foreign times to local times in an article, and when to put "Dr." in front of a person's name when they have a doctoral degree (only for certain medical titles; optional if the subject matter is relevant to the article).
  • Quick background information on a wide variety of topics, such as the Public Broadcasting Service ("not a network, but an association of public television stations organized to buy and distribute programs selected by a vote of the members") and the state of Hawaii ("comprises 132 islands about 2,400 miles southwest of San Francisco.")
  • A sports section that includes terminology and guidelines for printing league standings.
  • A business section.
  • A briefing on American media law.
  • Information specific to working with the Associated Press, such as instructions for filing photo captions.

Online Stylebook

AP also offers a subscription-based online version of the stylebook, which is updated with style changes as they are made and supports the addition of local style entries.

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Style guides (or style manuals) are prevalent for general and specialized usage, for the general reading and writing audience, and for students and scholars of the various academic disciplines, medicine, journalism, the law, government, business, and industry.
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American Psychological Association (APA) style is a widely-accepted style of documentation for written research reports, academic term papers, theses, and dissertations, and for scholarly manuscripts submitted for publication in Psychology, Sociology, Business, Economics, Nursing,
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The MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (1998), published for the Modern Language Association of America, by Joseph Gibaldi, is the second edition of The MLA Style Manual (1985).
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The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated in writing as CMS or CMOS, or, verbally, as Chicago) is a style guide for American English published by the University of Chicago Press, prescribing a writing style widely used in publishing.
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Turabian is the popular name of a format for the writing style of research papers (such as the arrangement and punctuation of footnotes and bibliographies). The full title of the handbook is A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations,
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The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage is a style guide (copyright 1999) by Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly.

Although it was written for The New York Times journalists, it has also been published for use by others.
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ISO 690 is an ISO standard for bibliographic referencing in documents of all sorts. It includes electronic documents, and specifies the elements to be included in references to published documents, and the order in which the elements of the reference should be stated.
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The Associated Press

Non-profit cooperative
Founded New York City, 1846 [1]
Headquarters New York City
Key people Tom Curley, President and CEO
Area served Worldwide
Industry News media
Products Wire service
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Style guides (or style manuals) are prevalent for general and specialized usage, for the general reading and writing audience, and for students and scholars of the various academic disciplines, medicine, journalism, the law, government, business, and industry.
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Topics in journalism
Professional issues
Ethics & objectivity
Sources & attribution
News & news values
Reporting & writing
Fourth estate • Libel law
Education & books
Other topics

Fields
Advocacy journalism
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newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is usually a weekly magazine featuring articles or segments on current events. News magazines generally go more in-depth into stories than newspapers or television news, trying to give the reader an understanding of the context
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a given natural language, and as such a field of linguistics. Traditionally, grammar included morphology and syntax, in modern linguistics commonly expanded by the subfields of phonetics, phonology, orthography, semantics, and
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Punctuation is everything in written language other than the actual letters or numbers, including punctuation marks (listed at right), inter-word spaces, capitalization, and indentation.
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Spelling is the writing of a word or words with all necessary letters and diacritics present in an accepted standard order. It is one of the elements of orthography and a prescriptive element of language.
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The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before a grammatical conjunction (nearly always and or or; sometimes nor) that precedes the last item in a list of three or more items.
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Doctor (gen.: doctoris) means teacher in Latin and is a contraction of the Greek διδάκτωρ, didaktōr, teacher, from the verb διδάσκειν, didaskein
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Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Type Broadcast television network
Country  United States
Availability     United States and parts of  Canada
Founded 1969
Launch date October 5, 1970
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State of Hawaii
Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi

Flag of Hawaii Seal of Hawaii
Nickname(s): The Aloha State

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A sports league is an organization that exists to provide a regulated competition for a number of people to compete in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends; at its most complex, it can
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Business law
Business organizations
Basic forms:
Sole proprietorship
Corporation
Partnership
(General · Limited · LLP)
Cooperative
USA:
Business trust · LLC · LLLP
Delaware corporation
Nevada corporation
UK/Commonwealth:
Limited company
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on-line and off-line have specific meanings with respect to computer technology and telecommunication. The concepts have however been extended from their computing and telecommunication meanings into the area of human interaction and conversation.
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