Chapter 1: The Basics of Writing for Journalism

Exercises

Practice: Objectivity and Clarity Exercise A

Practice: Objectivity and Clarity Exercise B

Review: Objectivity and Clarity

Chapter 2: Tight Writing: Less Is More

Exercises

Practice: Tightening Words and Phrases Exercise A

Practice: Tightening Words and Phrases Exercise B

Practice: Tightening Words and Phrases Exercise C

Practice: Tightening Words and Phrases Exercise D

Practice: Tightening Words and Phrases Exercise E

Review: Tightening Sentences

Chapter 3: Writing News That’s Fit for Print

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Writing News for Print Exercise A

Practice: Writing News for Print Exercise B

Practice: Writing News for Print Exercise C

Practice: Writing News for Print Exercise D

Review: Writing News for Print

Chapter 4: Writing News for Radio and Television

Exercises

Practice: Broadcast News

Review: Broadcast News Exercise A

Review: Broadcast News Exercise B

Chapter 5: Writing for Online and Mobile Media

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Chapter : Grammar and Usage Pretest

Exercises

Diagnostic and Practice

Chapter 6: Grammar Basics

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Identifying Parts of Speech Exercise A

Practice: Identifying Verbals

Practice: Identifying Parts of a Sentence Exercise A

Practice: Identifying Parts of a Sentence Exercise B

Practice: Identifying Parts of a Sentence Exercise C

Practice: Identifying Parts of a Sentence Exercise D

Review: Key Principles of Grammar

Chapter 7: Phrases, Clauses and Sentences

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Phrases

Practice: Clauses

Practice: Restrictive Versus Nonrestrictive

Practice: Sentences

Review: Phrases

Review: Clauses

Review: Restrictive Versus Nonrestrictive

Review: Sentences

Chapter 8: Subjects and Objects

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Nouns

Practice: Forming Singulars and Plurals of Nouns

Practice: Forming Possessives of Nouns

Practice: Pronoun Cases

Practice: Relative Pronouns

Practice: Pronouns Ending in Self or Selves

Review: Nouns

Review: Pronouns

Chapter 9:Verbs

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Regular Verbs Versus Irregular Verbs

Practice: Sequence of Tenses, Voice

Practice: Mood

Practice: Nouns Used as Verbs

Review: Regular Verbs Versus Irregular Verbs

Review: Sequence of Tenses, Voice

Review: Mood

Review: Nouns Used as Verbs

Chapter 10: Making the Parts Agree

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Conjunctions

Practice: Collective, Uncountable and Other Confusing Nouns

Practice: Indefinite and Intervening Pronouns

Practice: Disagreeing Subject and Predicate Nominative; Inverted Order, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Practice: Clear Pronoun Reference; Parallel Construction

Review: Subject-Verb Agreement

Review: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Review: Clear Pronoun Reference; Parallel Construction

Chapter 11: Modifiers and Connecting Words

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs

Practice: Choosing the Correct Modifier: Adjectives Versus Adverbs

Practice: Articles

Practice: Connecting Words Exercise A

Practice: Connecting Words Exercise B

Review: Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs

Review: Choosing the Correct Modifier: Adjectives Versus Adverbs

Review: Articles

Chapter 12: Getting Words in the Right Order

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Misplaced Modifiers

Review: Misplaced Modifiers

Chapter 13: Finding the Right Word

Exercises

Practice: Correct Usage

Review: Correct Usage

Chapter 14: Sexism, Racism and Other “Isms”

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Avoiding Offensiveness

Chapter 15: Punctuation

Exercises

Practice: Correct Punctuation

Chapter 16: Spelling Relief

Exercises

Practice: Short Answer

Practice: Words Often Misspelled

Review: Words Often Misspelled

Appendix: Wire-Service Print and Web Style Summary

Appendix

Practice: AP Style Basics

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Practice: Numbers

Quick-Start Guide to Exercise Central for AP Style

Quick-Start Guide to Exercise Central for AP Style