Lab Times and Instructors Old Exams Available Online (You need Acrobat Reader on your computer to read the exams.) School of Journalism and Broadcasting Language Proficiency Exam Language Exam 2 will count as the Language Proficiency Exam for students in JB 2003. You must score a 70 or better on this exam to enter the School of Journalism and Broadcasting. If you fail to score at least a 70 on the exam, you may retake it only once and no earlier than six weeks later. Failure to pass the exam a second time will preempt registration for any upper-division courses within the School of Journalism and Broadcasting. For more on the exam, click on this link. Reading Guides Associated Press Style Summary List Associated Press Spellings Confused Words List Bonus Points Grammar Links Spelling Tips, by John Irving The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University offers grammar pointers, and many of the entries have exercises and answer sheets. Richard J. Roth, an associate professor and associate dean at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, offers his 100 most common usage errors. Newsroom 101 Guide to Grammar and Writing, a site maintained by English professor Charles Darling for English courses at Capital Community College and for the general public. On-Line English Grammar

Online Readings: GRAMMAR SKILLS: A and An Parallel Sentence Structure Quotation Punctuation Examples of Redundancies Brevity RESEARCH SKILLS: Oklahoma Web Resources PowerReporting: Resources for Journalists Web searching: A tutorial on strategy and syntax Government Info Company Research Nonprofit Research Evaluating Web sites WRITING SKILLS: Attribution and Bibliography High Five: A Reporting and Writing Checklist "A short guide to press releases," by William Gargan TRY THIS LINK: "A short guide to press releases," by William Gargan

Last Update: July 21, 2005