Resources for Writing a Press Release

Associated Press Style Guide

First rule? Follow the rules. The press follows a set of grammar and style rules. If you want to play in the media sandbox, then you must follow their rules. Where? Oh! Where do you find these rules?

Fortunately, the Associated Press has a handy guide called the AP Style Guide. Sure there are other guides Chicago Manual of Style and New York Times, but by and large, you’ll do well following the AP Styleguide.

 

Elements of Style

Don’t be fooled. Writing is a craft.

Do yourself and your readers a favor and study the Elements of Style by Strunk & White.

“The classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.”

 

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

“In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation.”

 

 

 

 

On Writing Well

“On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.”

 

 

OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab

Have a grammar dilemma? Dangling participles got you down? Wondering how exactly do you construct a press release. Bookmark OWL. Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab which is the place the experts go to when they need help!

 

Grammarly

Wondering if you have any prepositional phrases? Wondering what is a prepositional phrase? Tidy up your writing and word selection with Grammarly. It works across platforms and word processing programs making tired writers look like geniuses.