Grammar Girl’s AP style tips and tricks

Don’t get too comfortable with your Associated Press Stylebook.

It is very much a living document and is subject to change.

“Editors solicit a lot of feedback from experts in their specific industries,” Mignon Fogarty of the Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast Network,” said during her recent webinar with Ragan. “They want to get it right and it’s important to them that the entries are accurate.”

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You can watch or listen to the entire webinar any time.

Here are recent changes and other interesting insights Fogarty highlighted from the stylebook about hyphens, dashes, quotations and dates, as well as insight into complex and ever-evolving issues like race and gender.

Keep it simple when it comes to hyphens.