Style Snapshots: Top 10 biggest style mistakes

News Editor Alicia Gruver will be providing regular Style Snapshots for us so we can better adhere to our style. To get things started, we are pointing out what we’re calling the Top 10 biggest style mistakes.

1) We use the Oxford comma. Ex. red, white, and blue.
2) We say news conference, not press conference.
3) When we refer to days within the week, we use the day, not the date.
4) Protesters and advisers are spelled with an “e” and not an “o” at the end.
5) There is a comma between months and years (Ex. January, 2022).
6) Use periods when abbreviating legislative bills. Ex. H.B. 51.
7) Jr. and Sr. get commas around them. Ex. Martin Luther King, Jr.,…
8) We use single quotes in cutlines.
9) Numbers are used with percentages, and we spell out the word “percent.” Ex. 1 percent.
10) Health care is two words and is hyphenated if used as a modifier to another word (Ex. health-care workers).