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- Title
Teaching Journalistic Style with the AP Stylebook.
- Authors
Dinicola, Robert
- Abstract
This article focuses on teaching journalistic style with the help of stylebooks in journalism education in the U.S. Nothing seems more likely to undermine a student's will to write than the impression that the journalism teacher, and by implication the profession, cares more about style than about substance. Yet the discipline of learning and following style conventions is generally conceded to be a worthy facet of any journalism writing course. One effective way is to introduce style rules selectively and gradually. Several times every day, any conscientious copy editor, whether novice or veteran, is likely to reach for the stylebook to check the proper way to render this or that. The trick is to learn those entries that tend to appear in copy repeatedly.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JOURNALISM style manuals; JOURNALISM education; UNITED States education system; JOURNALISM teachers; JOURNALISTS
- Publication
Journalism Educator, 1994, Vol 49, Issue 2, p64
- ISSN
0022-5517
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/107769589404900209