The Write Blog

Last week, we kicked off a mini-series of AP Stylebook-themed blog posts. This week, we’re sharing a few more gems of wisdom from The AP Stylebook Online.
Q: What’s the rule for capitalizing a person’s title?
A: It’s complicated, but here are the basics: AP defines a formal title as “one [...]

Does “city-wide” need a hyphen? If you’re writing about a sculpture, should you italicize the title, or put it in quotation marks?
The truth is, there’s no right answer. In most cases, style choices like this can vary from client to client. But what do you do when your client has [...]

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How’s this for a proofreading horror story: Because of a teeny little typo, people calling for a free cab service on New Year’s Eve ended up connecting with an “adult” chat line instead. Oops. That’s the kind of mistake that most likely ends in a lost client and a very, [...]

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Today, one of our most grammar-savvy clients emailed us with a question.
She asked:
If a sentence says, ‘A policy (that/which) protects the merchant against penalties . . . ’ should you use ‘that’ or ‘which’? And why?
I wasn’t 100% sure I knew the right answer. I was pretty sure. [...]