Writing journalistically has been a challenge for me because writing academically was the first way I was taught to write. I’ve been writing academically for as long as I can remember and now AP style rules have completely changed the way I write.
It’s hard to remember all the things AP style says is right and it’s even harder to forget what I’ve been taught academically all my life. When I’m writing journalistically, some of the things sound wrong when I read them out loud to myself because it is wrong when looking at it academically. It’s difficult to ignore the fact that it sounds wrong to me and just accept that according to the AP style, it’s correct.
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