A practical guide to AP style for press releases, separating current editorial rules from wire conventions and house style.

Punctuation may seem like a small part of writing, but it plays an important role in making communication clear and meaningful. Commas, full stops, question marks, quotation marks and other ...

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Punctuation is powerful. The inclusion of one tiny mark in a sentence can completely change the meaning. One too many ...

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Apostrophes indicate either possession (eg: the children's nanny, the emperor's new clothes, journalists' pay) or the omission of one or more letters (eg: It's a lovely day today; Life's a bitch; ...

“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.” Yet in the beginning there was no punctuation. In early Latin manuscripts, the Bible was written in scriptura continua ...

This lavishly researched book shows that dots and dashes are an essential component of style, whether you’re a medieval monk or Donald Trump How do you feel about exclamation marks? Otherwise known as ...

Some time ago, one of my former students requested a column on punctuation, specifically, how to use parentheses and dashes. Before I can explain these oddities, I need to review the primary rules of ...

With spoken English you can trust your instincts but with punctuation you should stick to the rules. When it comes to grammar and word usage, English speakers can trust their instincts. For example, ...

We’re living in a time where we have more technology than ever for sharing our words, but we still constantly get misunderstood. One cause of this is that we simply don’t use enough punctuation in our ...