The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual: Including Guidelines on Photo Captions, Filing the Wire, Proofreaders' Marks, Copyright

Associated Press, and Goldstein, Norm (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0201627043 / ISBN 13: 9780201627046

Published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA, 1994

About this Item

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 317 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. SC 212.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0035428

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual: Including Guidelines on Photo Captions, Filing the Wire, Proofreaders' Marks, Copyright
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201627043
• ISBN 13: 9780201627046
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: 4th Fully Rev & Updtd ed.
• Condition: Fine.

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Synopsis

The journalist's bible, providing facts and references for reporters and defining usage, spelling, and grammar for editors, furnishes detailed guidelines on writing photo captions, filing copy over a news wire, and handling copyrights, all in a new binding that lies flat.

Review

The world is divided into two types of people: those who wince when they see the words Canadian geese in print, and those who don't. If you are the former, or if you are the latter working for the former, the The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual provides invaluable assistance when you need to get your Canada geese all in a row. Countless newspapers and other publications base their style guides on this manual. The entries are arranged alphabetically and include issues of spelling, punctuation (there is no period in Dr Pepper), grammar, abbreviation, capitalization (Popsicle and Dumpster are, tollhouse cookies aren't), hyphenation (none, surprisingly, in ball point pen), and frequently misused words. There are also longer discussions of things such as Arabic names, chess notation, weather terms, and religious movements. Plus you'll find separate sections on sports writing, business writing, libel, and copyright.