Before I ever had my first copy of the AP Style Book I was working as a stringer for the Uniontown Herald-Standard. Mistakes came often in my first few submissions. It was not blatant disregard for the rules that caused these errors, but ignorance to their existence. My editor gave me a copy of the AP Style Book, and I quickly improved, but one rule continued to rear its head in my writing. It was the dreaded AP state abbreviations. When you spend your whole life working with the traditional two-letter state abbreviations it can be hard to make that switch. Now when I am working on a paper or essay done in another format I have to make sure I havent written it in AP Style. Ore. instead of OR and Wash instead of WA. Yikes
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May 2015
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