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| − | Read through the [http://wiki.kdhx.org/wiki/KDHX_online_writing_style full online writing style guide] for more information.
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| − | Only one space between sentences.
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| − | Commas and periods ALWAYS go inside quotation marks.
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| − | St. Louis not Saint Louis
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| − | Dates and times: 7 p.m. 11 a.m. noon September 25 (not September 25th)
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| − | Numbers: one through nine are written as words; 10 and above are figures (10, 20, 35, 150 etc.)
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| − | Include the state, fully spelled out (not abbreviated) with cities that are not unique or are potentially ambiguous: Gary, Indiana; Springfield, Illinois, Portland, Oregon
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| − | Use proper titling for composition titles: (lower case insignificant words (prepositions, articles, conjunctions) of three letters or less)
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| − | Do not indent paragraphs, instead enter an extra return between paragraphs.
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| − | Turn off smart or "curly" quotes, or use this tool to clean up your text before pasting. jhy.io/tools/convert-word-to-plain-text
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| − | Composition titles, like play titles, go in double quotation marks in text. Do not italicize such titles.
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| − | Do not use the serial (Oxford) comma unless to avoid ambiguity. That's the final comma before the "and" in a series of items: "Hamlet," "Macbeth" and "The Tempest" are my three favorite plays.
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