Turn it in to "Page Edits" by noon on Saturday. Title it your first name.
The page editor (Eva, etc.) will edit it and put it up sometime on Saturday night. They will edit it and name it their name_yourname (Eva_Marquis, for example). So now there are TWO copies of your story in the "Page Edits" folder. Edit your article (the "Eva_Marquis" one) and rename it just your name. Upload it to the "Copy Edits" folder. Jessica or Elias will edit it (so it will be "Jessica_Marquis" and "Elias_Marquis") sometime Sunday morning. There will be THREE copies of your story in this folder. Then you do your final edit. Name it your name (for the third time) and upload it to the "Final" folder. Then you are done! I found a version on the following sentence in our second issue. Which of the following is correct?
"They plan to do this by focusing on conditioning more, working as a team, and treating every practice as a game." or "They plan to do this by focusing on conditioning more, working as a team and treating every practice as a game." The answer is the second version. This is because the first version has an Oxford comma - we do not use the Oxford comma in our paper because it is not used in AP Style. To read more about the Oxford comma (and to find out if you should use it in your English papers or not) read this: https://www.writingforward.com/grammar/punctuation-marks/serial-comma-punctuation-marks Here are 12 great tips for avoiding errors in AP Style. Putting an "s" after "toward" is one of my biggest pet peeves. See also: numbers, titles, seasons, and United States vs. U.S.:
http://blog.inkhouse.com/twelve-common-mistakes-of-ap-style In a draft, I noticed this sentence: "On August 24th the state of California released the results of..." This sentence has at lease one mistake, according to AP Style (the preferred style guide for newspapers and the one that we, as a staff, are supposed to use). First, the date is written incorrectly. Here, from Google, is how a date should be written in AP Style: Second, AP Style has rules about how to write abbreviations for all but eight states - shouldn't we use Calif.? I'm glad you remember that there are special rules for states, but in this case it is correct to spell out the state. The guidelines state:
Spell out the names of the 50 U.S. states when they stand alone in textual material. Any state name may be condensed, however, to fit typographical requirements for tabular material. Here is a link to the rules about states and their abbreviations, but you can always just Google "AP Style States" too: http://apstylebook.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-names.html So, the sentence above, corrected, should read: "On Aug. 24 the state of California released the results of..." |
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