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Common style points

  • Active verbs
  • Attribution
  • Apostrophes
  • Capitals
  • Cliches
  • Confused, misused and over used words
  • Crowds
  • Dangling modifiers
  • Dates
  • Hyphenation of compound modifiers
  • Inclusive language
  • Jargon
  • Measurements
  • Numbers
  • Partner
  • Percentages
  • Plurals
  • Punctuation
  • Quotations
  • Redundant phrases
  • Simple words
  • Slugs
  • Superlatives
  • Tenses
  • Titles and honorifics
  • Tautologies


Aborigine, Aboriginal
accidents
admitted
advice and advise
affect and effect
AIDS
alibi
alleged
all right, a lot
an historic See also historic
armed gunman

believe
bid

centre round
claimed
collide
comprise
convince
co-ordinate, co-ordinator

dash (-)

enormity

et cetera
ethnic
extremist

fewer
flaunt

gaol See also jail

he/she

historic See also an historic
infamous, notorious

infer
innocent
ironically

jail See also gaol
justified

last
literally
loan

majority of the
murder

not to mention

over See also under

post mortem
protest

refute
replica

shadow minister
some
spokesperson

that
tragedy
transportation

under See also over
unique
upcoming
upon

very

we, our
weather conditions
who, whom

yesterday


Broadcast specific style points

  • Abbreviations
  • Active voice
  • Adjectival phrases
  • Contractions
  • Currencies
  • Parenthesis
  • Pronunciation
  • Repeated syllables
  • Simple sentences
  • Titles (more)
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