For journalists, the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook is the industry “bible.” They live and die by its grammar and style rules, and most have taken numerous journalism school classes to perfect the art of AP style writing. As such, AP style errors in press releases are glaringly obvious to reporters and could turn them off from considering a press release....
Any online content creator[1] knows: Writing for the web is no easy feat. In fact, one of the most frustrating challenges we face is due to the fact that new, web-related words are being coined all the time. As a result, we often run into questions like, “Do I capitalize this? Is this one word or two? Should I hyphenate...
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Don’t ordinarily hyphenate adjectival combinations of adverb + adjective or adverb + participle unless the adverb does not end in ly and can be misread as an adjective. Now–if that sounds like just a bunch of silly grammarese to you, let us put it simply: Don’t hyphenate stuff like “fully involved” or “partially hidden treasure” — if you do, people...
