Writing & Editing

Resources on Writing:

• Associated Press Stylebook: Originally published in 1953, AP Style was created by American journalists, and has since become the leading resource for corporate communication.

• Chicago Manual of Style: Chicago Style is much more detail-oriented than AP Style, with large portions covering citation, reference lists, and bibliographies.

• Diversity Style Guide: "The Diversity Style Guide is a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority, and sensitivity. This guide, a project of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University, brings together definitions and information from more than two dozen style guides, journalism organizations and other resources. The guide contains more than 700 terms related to race/ethnicity, disability, immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, and geography." (Diversity Style Guide)

• Expresso: "Expresso is a little tool to edit texts and improve your writing style. It will teach you to express yourself through writing more efficiently and help make your texts more readable, precise, and engaging." (Expresso)

• Writing Tips: Article by Jeremiah Sierra in ECFVP.

• The Episcopal Church Style Guide: This reference offers an A-Z style and punctuation guide for writing content for Episcopal Church web pages and newsletters.

• Rules of Address: PDF tool by Church Pension Group that explains forms of address for clergy, honorifics, and academic degrees.

• Hemingway App: This app helps keep writing concise and understandable. It offers suggestions on sentence structure, length, complexity, and identifies passive voice.

• Grammarly: Checks spelling and grammar. It also has a Chrome plugin to check online copy.