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It’s time for spring cleaning, but you can spruce up your writing, as well as your office, with updated AP style rules.
On Wednesday, AP Stylebook launched its 2019 edition:
The 2019 AP Stylebook went on sale today.
Customers who participate in our automated annual delivery program get their Stylebooks first. Here are the boxes as they were getting ready to leave our warehouse Friday.
To get your book early next year: https://t.co/Dcjo6KZSxh pic.twitter.com/l56iokD4dX
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) May 29, 2019
Following its launch, AP Stylebook editor Paula Froke shared several revisions and new entries in the resource publication’s Twitter chat, #APStyleChat.
Here are several you should know:
Science, health and environmental studies
Along with a sports betting section, the new edition has a new health and science chapter, which gives guidelines on selecting stories, citing expert sources, using scientific journals and reporting the type of scientific study conducted. These guidelines can help when writing about environmental issues as well.
Here are a few tips from the chapter:
Among the tips: Beware of “breakthroughs” because few things truly are. Exaggeration makes readers and viewers distrust the media and science. #APStyleChat (2/6)
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) May 29, 2019
Keep in mind that scientists are not infallible. They are human, with their own biases, and can make mistakes even when they’re very careful. #APStyleChat (3/6)
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) May 29, 2019
The entry notes that how a study was done helps determine how reliable