Style Guides
The Associated Press Stylebook 2009 by Publication Date: 2009This edition contains more than 3000 A to Z entries, including more than 200 new ones, detailing the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation and word and numeral usage. New entries include anti-spyware, high-definition, iPhone, outsourcing, podcast, text messaging, social networking, snail mail, WMD and Wikipedia.
Citation Management Tools
- RefWorks This link opens in a new windowWeb-based tool to manage your references and produce citations and bibliographies from them more easily. Interacts with Word and Google Docs to help you correctly format references and bibliographies. Learn more by consulting the RefWorks guide.
- Zotero This link opens in a new windowA tool to capture, organize, share and cite references. Lehigh provides unlimited storage - simply use your Lehigh email to setup your account or add it to your current account. Learn more by consulting the Zotero guide.
- Zotero GuideCreated by Jason Puckett at Georgia State University.
Writing guides
News Talk by Publication Date: 2010Written by a former news reporter and editor, News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media, showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes, revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Tracing news stories from start to finish, she shows how the actions of journalists and editors - and the limitations of news writing formulas - may distort a story that was prepared with the most determined effort to be fair and accurate.
Writing and Style Aids
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Poynter Online
Includes articles on writing and editing, information about upcoming seminars, as well as tip sheets.
Society for Professional Journalists - resources for students