Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS Food and Drug Administration ENTRIES fort AAA Internal Revenue Service AARP International Criminal Police Organization abbreviations and acronyms junior, senior AWOL LSD AFL-CIO National Aeronautics and Space Agency for Int. Dev. Administration AM National Association for the American Bar Association Advancement of Colored People ACLU NATO American ... R.S.V.P. brothers SOS CIA street days of the week UFOs Environmental Protection Agency versus Equal Employment Opportunity Voice of America Commission World Health Organization FBI Young Men's (Women's) Christian Federal Aviation Administration Association Federal Bureau of Investigation

BUSINESS ENTRIES

Baby Bells Big Board Big Three automakers blue chip stock company, companies company names consumer price index corporation DaimlerChrysler AG Dow Jones & Co. euro European Union Export-Import Bank of the U.S. Exxon Mobil Corp. firm fiscal year gross domestic product incorporated Index of Leading Economic Indicators inflation Kmart Lloyd's of London local Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing New York Stock Exchange Peter Principle prime rate right-to-work savings and loan associations Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations Time Warner Inc. unemployment rate Wal-Mart Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

CAPITALIZATION ENTRIES Executive Mansion federal act Ferris wheel acting first family administrator first lady airline food airport fraternal organizations and service a.m., p.m. clubs ambassador french fries assistant godchild, goddaughter associate greater astronaut gypsy, gypsies attaché holidays and holy days automobiles jeep, Jeep baby boomer lake birthday languages board of directors, trustees Mafia building manager bureau monuments campaign manager newspaper names canal New Year's, New Year's Day, New capitalization Year's Eve captain occupational titles chairman, chairwoman office chancellor olympics channel organizations and institutions chapter personifications chief plants chief justice queen city railroads committee seasons communist secretary convention secretary-general courthouse secretary of state dam sentences devil stadium, stadiums director titles diseases treasurer embassy turnpike eve war Western Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

COMPOSITION TITLES ENTRIES

anthems composition titles magazine names music national anthem newspaper names poetry reference works speeches television program titles Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

CRIME, COURT ENTRIES highway patrol homicide, murder, manslaughter accused illegal agent indict admit, admitted innocent, not guilty allege jail arrest judge assassin judicial branch assassination jury assault / batttery justice attorney justice of the peace bail juvenile delinquent burglary, larceny, robbery, theft lawyer civil cases, criminal cases magistrate convict nolo contendre defense pardon, parole, probation defense attorney plead, pleaded, pleading deputy police department detective prison, jail district attorney prosecutor DUI, DWI RICO felony, misdemeanor sheriff first degree, first-degree state police forcible rape subpoena, subpoenaed, grand jury subpoenaing habeas corpus U.S. Court of Appeals

EDUCATION ENTRIES academic degrees academic departments academic titles alumnus baccalaureate bachelor of ... college course numbers dean dean's list emeritus grade, grader graduate home schooling, home-schooled, home-schooler Ivy League Johns Hopkins University master of arts, master of science Montessori method Ph.D., Ph.D.s professor pupil, student school superintendent Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

GEOGRAPHY ENTRIES Eastern Shore equator See individual entries at cities, Eurasian states, countries euro addresses European Union Afghan Far East African Far West African-American Filipinos Alberta geographic names Antarctica Germany Appalachia Great Britain Arabic names Great Lakes Arctic Great Plains Asian Gulf Coast Asian subcontinent hemisphere Asian-American highway designations bay indigenous Bosnia-Herzegovina international dateline Bosporus Ireland Britain Irish Republican Army British, Briton(s) island Cambodia John F. Kennedy Space Center Canada latitude and longitude cape Leaning Tower of Pisa China Low Countries Chinese names meridians cities and towns Mexico city Middle Atlantic States coast Middle East Commonwealth of Independent Middle West States Midwest region Commonwealth Monaco continent mount Continental Divide mountains Corn Belt Mountain States Cotton Belt nationalities and races Deep South New England directions and regions North Central region Down Under Northeast region earth Occident, Occidental Easter Europe ocean Eastern Hemisphere Old World Eastern Seaboard Pennsylvania Dutch Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

Persian Gulf Southeast Asia Pikes Peak Spanish names planets state Rio Grande state names river strait route numbers Sun Belt Serbia-Montenegro Tiananmen Square Seven Seas tribe, tribal Seven Wonders of the World valley Sierra Nevada West South Western Hemisphere Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

HISTORY ENTRIES allies, allied Axis Cold War colonies czar Dark Ages D-Day depression Hiroshima historic, historical historical periods and events history ice age Korean War Magna Carta Mason-Dixon Line Middle Ages Nazi, Nazism New South Prohibition Reconstruction revolution Roaring '20s Sept. 11 Space Age Stalin, Josef V-E Day Veterans Day V-J Day World War I, World War II Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

MEDICINE, SCIENCE ENTRIES heavenly bodies high blood pressure AIDS hurricane alcoholic hybrid Alzheimers hypertension Asperger's syndrome Kelvin scale big-bang theory Legionnaires' disease bird flu light year body mass index M.D. Caesarean section Mach number Celsius mad cow disease Centers for Disease Control and MRI Prevention MRSA Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease outbreak diseases Pap test (or smear) DNA pill doctor planets Down syndrome post-traumatic stress disorder drugs Rh factor E. Coli rubella earthquakes SARS emergency room sound barrier epidemic, pandemic, space shuttle Fahrenheit spacecraft designations heart attack, heart failure, tsunami cardiac arrest typhoon weather terms Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

MILITARY ENTRIES guerrilla IED ABM Marines aide-de-camp Medal of Honor air base Medevac air force merchant marine Air Force One military academies Air National Guard military titles al-Qaida military units American Legion MIRV AMVETS national guard Army National Guardsman awards, decorations navy AWOL prisoner(s) of war battalion USS battlefield Veterans of Foreign cease-fire, cease-fires Wars coast guard Wac, WAC company (military) Waf, WAF corps Wave, WAVES court-martial .. weapons defense spending West Point fleet WMB Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

MISCELLANEOUS ENTRIES initials injuries internet Academy Awards Jane's All the World's Aircraft, actor, actress Jane's Fighting Ships admit Jaycees African-American kibbutz aircraft kids Amtrak Korean names annual local ballclub ... Mardi Gras black May Day, mayday bride, bridegroom middle initials Bronze Age middle names brussels sprouts mishap cactus, cactuses months Canada goose mother-in-law, mothers-in-law Canuck movie ratings Caucasian Murphy's law CD-ROM names chauvinism, chauvinist nicknames Chinaman Nobel Prize Chinese names noncontroversial colored OK, OK's, OK'ing, OKs controversial on courtesy titles online datelines over demolish, destroy passer-by, passers-by drowned, was drowned peacock e-mail –person ethanol people, persons face to face phenomenon, phenomena family names polls Fatah predominant, predominantly father-in-law, fathers-in-law quotations in the news fax RAM floppy disk Realtor gambling, gaming record ground zero Ringling Bros. and Barnum & guerrilla Bailey Circus hang, hanged, hung rock 'n' roll home page scuba infant semitrailer Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA sister-in-law, sisters-in-law T-shirt Smithsonian Institution U.N. Smokey under way software titles union names son-in-law, sons-in-law unique sport utility vehicle United Nations super United States tear gas user friendly theater VIP, VIPs three R's weapons time element whereabouts today, tonight World Wide Web tomorrow yesterday total youth Truman, Harry S. Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

NUMBERS ENTRIES midnight mile see individual entries at milli, centi, miles per gallon deci, etc. miles per hour acre millions, billions A.D. minus ages No. are noon average, mean, median numerals B.C. page numbers billion percent bimonthly percentages biweekly p.m., a.m. boy poverty level Celsius ranges centi- ratios centimeter Roman numerals cents room numbers century sesquicentennial dates speeds daylight-saving time telephone numbers decades temperatures dimensions time of day distances times dollars time zones foot 20th Century Fox, Twentieth Century foreign money Fund, Twentieth Century Limited fractions two-by-four knot weights metric system years ZIP codes Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT ENTRIES administration adopt, approve, enact, pass Al Fatah amendments assembly, -man attorney general Bill of Rights cabinet Cabinet titles city council city hall Congress congressional congressional districts Congressional Record congressman, -woman constitution council, councilor, councilman, councilwoman county court decisions court names democrat, democratic, Democratic Party Democratic National Committee Department of Agriculture etc. district Election Day Electoral College embassy Equal Rights Amendment equal time, fairness doctrine filibuster foreign governmental bodies foreign legislative bodies G-8 General Accounting Office general assembly government government, junta, regime Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

governmental bodies governor Grand Old Party house of representatives impeachment Inauguration Day International Court of Justice Joint Chiefs of Staff laws leftist, ultra-leftist legislative titles legislature lie in state lieutenant governor majority leader Marxism (Marxist) Medal of Freedom Medicaid Medicare minority leader National Institutes of Health nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization parliamentary party affiliation pocket veto Politburo political divisions political parties and philosophies politics premier, prime minister presidency president primary primary day radical Republican National Committee republican, Republican Party rightist, ultra-rightist Secret Service senate Social Security speaker State of the Union Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

statehouse vice president subcommittee vote tabulations Supreme Court of the United States whip supreme courts of the states White House Veterans Affairs Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

RELIGION ENTRIES Gospel(s), gospel Hades agnostic, atheist Hanukkah Alahu Akbar he, him, his, thee, thou Allah heaven Anglican Communion hell Antichrist Hindu, Hinduism archdiocese Holy Father archbishop of Canterbury Holy See Ash Wednesday Holy Spirit Baha'i Holy Week baptist imam Baptist Churches Islam bar mitzvah Jehovah's Witnesses Bible Jesus Bible Belt Jew Blessed Sacrament, Blessed Jewish congregations Virgin Jewish holy days buddha, Buddhism Koran burqa kosher catholic, catholicism Lent Christian Church (Disciples of Lutheran churches Christ) Mass Christmas mecca church messiah Church of Christ, Scientist Methodist churches Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- minister day Saints Mohammed Churches of Christ Mormon Church dalai lama Moslems deity mujahedeen Easter mullah Eastern Orthodox churches Muslims Eastern Rite churches Nation of Islam Eid al-Adha orthodox Eid-al-Fitr parish Episcopal Church Passover Episcopal, Episcopalian Pentecost evangelist pontiff father pope gentile preacher gods and goddesses Presbyterian churches Good Friday priest Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

Protestant, Protestantism saint Purim Satan Quakers Scripture, Scriptures Quran Seventh-day Adventist Church Ramadan Shariah religious affiliations Shiite religious movements sister religious references Sukkot religious titles synagogue Rev. Talmud Roman Catholic Church Ten Commandments rosary Twelve Apostles Rosh Hashana United Church of Christ Sabbath Yom Kippur sacraments Zionism Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

RACE, GENDER, ETHNICITY, illegal immigrant DISABILITY ENTRIES illegal immigrant Indians Aborigine Islam abortion Korean names actor / actress Ku Klux Klan African Kwanzaa african-American lady Arabic names Latino Asian, Asian subcontinent lesbian, lesbianism Bible belt mailman black man, mankind boy, girl, man, woman mentally disabled chauvinism mentally retarded Chicano Moslems Chinese names Native American colored N-word deaf-mute obscenities, profanities, derogatory terms vulgarities dialect Oreo disabled, handicapped, impaired Oriental divorcee patrolman, patrolwoman Down syndrome race elderly redneck Eskimo, Eskimos refugee Eurasian senior citizen firefighter, fireman sex changes gay sexual preference ghetto, ghettos she harebrained spokesman, spokeswoman harelip spouse his, her transgender Hispanic Uncle Tom homosexual vernacular husband, widower waiter, waitress women Jill Van Wyke, Assistant Professor Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Associated Press Style • Breakfast of Editing Champions Teaching Idea AEJMC, Aug. 6, 2009 • Boston, MA

TECHNOLOGY/WEB/INTER Internet Explorer NET ENTRIES IP address iPhone anti-virus iPod Blackberry JPG blog laptop byte mouse, mice chip mp3 cyber- mpeg-2 domain names MySpace DVD phishing Easter egg podcast e-mail RSS emoticon snail mail Facebook social networking flat panel TV spam HTML text messaging HTTP URL hypertext virus, worm IM Web Internet wiki Internet Wikipedia XML