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This week we will be finishing the last two chapters of Rene J. Cappon’s The Associated Press Guide to News Writing . We will be looking at chapter 12: Usage: Handling Those Hectoring Hangups and chapter 13: Bestiary: A Compendium for the Careful and the Crotchety. In chapter 12, Cappon talks about sentence structure. In the chapter, Cappon talks about when to place certain words in sentences like but and and . Cappon explains that these words have different context in a sentence depending on the topic of the sentence. Cappon also explains when to use dashes and commas. Cappon goes through other types of words in sentences and how to use them properly like et cetera, the proper use of lay vs lie , handling numbers and using the word that. In chapter 13, Cappon makes a short dictionary of words to help the reader understand how to use these words and place them in sentences. Cappon also goes into the meaning of these words to help the reader further understand when to use them

Whenever Apple releases a new iPhone the device is covered extensively and featured on many news sites and television. The new iPhone is being showcased by Apple and they go on and on about all the new features the phone can do. Much like the new product Apple produces with new features there is a type of news called features. In Rene J. Cappon’s The Associated Press Guide to News Writing Chapter 11: Features: A View from the Poet’s Corner, Cappon goes into detail on how to write a feature. This week we will be looking at the eleventh chapter in Cappon’s book. In this chapter, Cappon talks about features, which are a news story that are less limited than hard news. Cappon explains a problem some writers have when writing features. This problem is that the writer spends too much time trying to decorate the story with fancy words rather than being straightforward. It is okay to be descriptive, but the problem is the overuse of adjectives and generalities often found in the writing