AP Style Guide Updates
The AP Style Guide has provided new guidance on usage in several areas.
PR Daily summarizes the changes, and here are some of the highlights:
- In the sports chapter are changes for several sports. Advice includes avoiding exaggeration: ("A team losing a game is not a 'disaster'") and using lower case for skating moves even if they're named after someone.
- You may write BLT without defining the ingredients.
- Although climate change is more accurate, global warming may be used interchangeably.
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The guide suggests avoiding "the term committed suicide except in direct quotations from authorities."
Instead, write "killed himself, took her own life or died by suicide."
Discussion Starters:
- Who uses the AP Style Guide, and why are these changes important?
- The Guide's Facebook page suggests writing "April Fools' Day." What do you think?
- Notice that the last bullet, above, includes a quotation from the experts but no serial (or Oxford comma). Explain!