Monday, June 24, 2013

Can I have your AP style?

The AP Style book.  This is something new to me.  I have heard of it.  Seen pictures of it on Google Images.  But never would i ever think I would be bound by it.

Teaching film and video production, I have been taught to stick to the Chicago Style for writing screenplays for television and film.  For some reason I assumed this would spread to other forms of media.  Little did I know that the AP wasn't just a news service, but the creator of a multi-paged, spiral bound book of rules and methods, most of which I have not been following correctly.  Maybe one day I will be a great AP stylist.

Today's activity on editing a single sentence using the AP style was very informative.  It made me realize that I have to spend more time editing my article before I turn it into Steve.  I had no idea how specific things had to be for news writing publication.  This explains why the opinion articles I wrote for The Daily Aztec in college never looked like the versions I would turn into my editor.  There is probably a big chance this blog post is not nearly AP Style



Rudy De La Torre
Escondido High School
Escondido, Calif

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