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Seven Common and Confounding Errors All PR Pros Should Know

Posted on Aug. 26, 2015  /  Subscribe 1

By Joseph Priest, Corporate Writer, Syniverse

Do you have any pet peeves that cause you to groan when it comes to grammar and style in PR writing? Are there any words you see misspelled over and over? Any punctuation marks you see misused that make you cringe? Or any written-in-stone AP style rules you see broken that raise your hackles?

In my role as writer and editor over the past 15 years, I’ve developed my own list of some of the most common – and apparently confusing – errors that I come across again and again. To help PR pros be on guard against these, I selected seven and shared them in an article published in this month’s PR Tactics, “Seven Common and Confounding Errors All PR Pros Should Know.”

In the article, I’ve created a quiz in which I’ve included an example of each error in the form of a sentence. I urge you to try the quiz, spot the mistake, and check your answers against the explanations. All answers are based on the 2015 issue of the Associated Press Stylebook, although in one explanation I include commentary to provide guidance on a rule that is particularly confusing. (It’s actually the single most confusing style rule in PR, I’ve come to believe.)

Good luck on the quiz! Email me at [email protected] to let me know how you do.

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