JOUR 61 – AP Style Exercise #1 (A-D)
(contains 15 errors)
Please find and correct the AP style errors in the following sentences. The number in parentheses at the end of each sentence tells you how many errors are in that sentence. Be sure to consult your AP Stylebook for this exercise.
1) The new head of the journalism department, Dr. Deborah Dunwoody, Ph.D., recently bought a house at 6 Riverside Dr. in San Mateo, a lovely city in the San Francisco bay area. (4)
2) “What kind of person would break in to my apartment and rob my brand new thongs?” she asked her friend. (3)
3) The instructor asked her students to read Chapter 6, which began in the late 1920s and continued through the 1930s. (5)
4) Sarah Smith has not let partial blindness or wheelchair confinement stop her from living life to the fullest. In spite of her partial blindness and wheelchair confinement, she volunteers at a local senior center and enjoys going for strolls, she calls them “rolls,” with her friends. (3)
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1) Dr. or Ph.D. - not both; Bay area (-2)
2) steal, not rob (-1)
3) you left out a section of this sentence which contained an error (-1)
4) Check the "disability" entry in the AP Stylebook for how to handle this. Also, use "despite" not "in spite of." (-3)
8/15
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