Books and other types of compositions

Rule: Use quotation marks around the titles of books, songs, television shows, computer games, poems, lectures, speeches and works of art

Example: Author Ally Carter read from her new book, “Only the Good Spy Young.”

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Anthea Wilson, Staff Writer

Numerals

Never begin a sentence with a figure, unless it begin with a year.

Examples: Two hundred bugs crawled. Five flowers grew. 1776 was when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Use roman numerals to describe wars and show sequences dealing with people. 

Examples: World War I, Pope John Paul II

For ordinal numbers, spell out first through ninth and use figures for 10th + when describing order in time or location. Some ordinal numbers (politically and geographic) , should use figures in all cases.

Examples: Second base, 10th in a row.  Examples: 3rd District Court, 9th ward.

If no usage is specified for cardinal numbers, spell out numbers below 10 and use figures for numbers 10 +. 

Example: Bertha had four children and 11 grandchildren.

When referring to money, use numerals. For cents or amounts of $1 million or more, spell the words cents, million, billion, trillion etc.

Examples: $26.85, $100,600, $7 million, 4 cents.

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Sara Nabhan, writer 

Citing in-text with quotation marks

Quotations marks should be used around: songs, poems, lectures, speeches, and works of art. 

     Example: The poem "The Laboratory" is written by Robert Frost. 

Quotations marks should not be used around: albums, books, television shows, movies, magazines, newspapers, and reference books. These must instead be cited in italics. 

     Example: The Economist is a weekly magazine.

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Katherine Fang, chief

How do you write a dateline?

Datelines are used when the information for a story is found outside the hometown of the paper or source the reporter is writing for. They are at the very beginning of the story and have the city written in ALL CAPS and can be followed by the state written in a normal format (first letter capitilized only). Some major cities do not even need to be followed by the state. There are thirty of these special cities according to the Associated Press Stylebook.

• DENVER - The Brighton Ski Resort...
• WAXAHACHIE, Texas - School administrators met yesterday...

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Molly Oretsky, Sports Writer

How to abbreviate addresses

For addresses what should you abbreviate for street names?

Ave., Blvd. and St.
Menchies is located on Bellaire Blvd.
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Cari Bonilla, Staff Editor

Punctuation

Always leave a single space after a period. Don't use a comma before a conjunction in a simple sentence. Include commas,periods and punctuation within quotation marks.

Examples: "I don't like this!" Jacob and Jim went to the park.

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Jennifer Wang, writer

Dimensions

When refering to dimensions, use numbers for the figure and spell out the units.
right: 15 inches, 80 seconds
wrong: 15 in., 80 sec.


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Tonya Chen, staff writer

Ages

For ages, always use figures. If the age is used as an adjective or as a substitute for a noun, then it should be hyphenated. Don’t use apostrophes when describing an age range. Also, when the number is less than ten, it should be spelled out.

Examples: A 21-year-old student. The student is 21 years old. She is six. A six-year-old girl.

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Zean Liao

Writer, Three Penny Press

Should you capitalize titles?

When writing the title of a person in your story you must capitlize the name.

Example: President Obama is running for president.

Wrong: president obama is running for president.

Alison Elberger, staff writer

The Internet

Styles: Internet, the Net, World Wide Web, the Web, Web site, dot-com, JPEG, DVD, CD-ROM, online, cyberspace, email.
When writing a web address, write like this: http://www.facebook.com

Claire Fisher, News Writer