The Associated Press Stylebook

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• joegahona · Dec 23, 2022 · Recommends

  …grammar-heavy: • Words Into Type, Marjorie E. Skillin (hard-core grammar rules, great section on redundancies) • Chicago Manual of Style (in general, the core style of book and magazine writing) • Associated Press Stylebook (in general, the core style of newspaper writing) • Garner's Modern English Usage, Bryan A. Garner • Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage • Dictionary of American Idioms, Maxine Tull Makkai…

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• mkr-hn · Nov 25, 2012 · Recommends

  …ideas on style from a century ago, but it's not a guide to writing. If you have a need for guidelines but don't want to develop your own, many major publications publish style books. For example: The Associated Press Stylebook, The Chicago Manual of Style. APA and MLA work too.

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• joegahona · Jun 24, 2023 · Recommends

  …grammar-heavy: • Words Into Type, Marjorie E. Skillin (hard-core grammar rules, great section on redundancies) • Chicago Manual of Style (in general, the core style of book and magazine writing) • Associated Press Stylebook (in general, the core style of newspaper writing) • Garner's Modern English Usage, Bryan A. Garner • Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage • Dictionary of American Idioms, Maxine Tull Makkai…

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• cgh · Feb 6, 2015 · Mentions

  Both the Associated Press Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style recommend spelling out numbers less than nine and ninety-nine, respectively.

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• projektfu · May 20, 2021 · Mentions

  …Dictionary Fifth Edition, and then has a few rules of their own. A more algorithmic rule is found in APA style: https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2016/10/hyphenation-stati... Edit: NPR also uses the Associated Press Stylebook and related resources.

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