Stylebook

Question 0

Alot or a lot?

Answer 0

A lot

Question 1

All right, or alright?

Answer 1

All right

Question 2

Percent or %?

Answer 2

Percent

Question 3

Give me a sports score with one team having 2 and another having 13.

Answer 3

13-2

Question 4

How do you tell the title of a play, book, etc?

Instead of what are you using them?

Answer 4

Parentheses

Italics

Question 5

What person should you write in?

Answer 5

3rd

Question 6

When should you not write in 3rd person?

Answer 6

Editorials

Question 7

When can the word “here” be used?

Answer 7

Never

Question 8

What is the “when” policy?

Answer 8

Never start the story with the “when.”

Question 9

Put these three things in a sentence telling that you ate them: cherries crackers cookies

Answer 9

I ate cherries, crackers, and cookies.

Question 10

Tell me two correct ways and one incorrect way to talk about Mrs. Johnson catching someone eating strawberries and punishment.

Answer 10

Johnson said that if students are caught eating strawberries, they will be punished.
…a student is caught eating strawberries, he or she will be …
… Student is caught eating strawberries, they will be …

Question 11

What is the exclamation point policy?

Answer 11

Only in quotes where the source is undoubtedly yelling or very excited

Question 12

Policy talking about types of schools, such as secondary.

Answer 12

No abbreviations, no capitals, two words

Question 13

Comma with names policy

Answer 13

Don’t use commas to separate a person’s name from the description proceeding it unless the sentence would be fine without it

Question 14

Thinks policy

Answer 14

Said she thinks

Question 15

What tense should you write a news story in?

Answer 15

Past tense

Question 16

Said and name order policy

Answer 16

Name said, unless there is a long description

Question 17

Quote and attribution order

Answer 17

Quote, then attribution

Question 18

Where does a quote go?

Answer 18

In its own paragraph

Question 19

States’ names abbreviations

Answer 19

No abbreviation when standing alone

Abbreviate with a city

Question 20

States and commas talking about them seeing Nashville, and going home.

Answer 20

After seeing Nashville, tn, they went home.

Question 21

Use of the word Texas when describing cities

Answer 21

Don’t use it, unless it is in a story with towns outside of Texas as well

Question 22

Street abbreviations

Answer 22

Abbreviate it only when there is a house number

Question 23

Month abbreviations

Answer 23

With a specific date, abbreviate

Don’t abbreviate when standing alone

Question 24

Tell me how to say seven o’clock in the evening.

Answer 24

7 p.m.

Question 25

When to spell out and when to use a numeral

Answer 25

Spell out single digit

Numerals for 10 and beyond

Question 26

Numerals for grades?

Answer 26

No

Question 27

Numbers at the beginning of a sentence

Answer 27

Always spell out

Question 28

Job description capitalizations

Answer 28

Don’t do it

Question 29

Identifying principals

Answer 29

Be specific, Bob.

Question 30

When to use freshman and freshmen

Answer 30

Adjective uses the singular form

Freshman class

Question 31

When to use hyphens for grade levels

Answer 31

As adjectives, not as nouns

Question 32

Grade level capitalization

Answer 32

Don’t do it

Question 33

How to identify Camille and Meyer Sunshine

Answer 33

freshman Camille Sunshine

third-grader Meyer Sunshine

Question 34

How to identify a person

Answer 34

First and last names the first time, with titles

Last name after that, along with doctor if applicable

If you have two of the same last name, use mr. And mrs. For adults