Media Law
This allows an author to control reproduction of their work.
What is copyright?
This Olympic category combines slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill skiing.
What is Alpine skiing?
This term used by the National Weather Service describes storms that move along the East Coast and produce high winds.
What is a nor'easter?
How to express this speed when using AP style: seven miles per hour
What is 7 mph?
Avoid using this term when a patient seemingly overcomes a disease, especially cancer.
What is "cured"?
This procedure is often referred to as a CAT scan, but is written in this way to adhere to AP style.
What is CT scan?
In 1832, James Madison stated that "A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy." He was talking about this.
What is the right of public access to information.
What is esports?
This typically occurs after a heavy rain and is characterized by sudden, violent movement of water.
What is a flash flood?
In general, spell out these numbers.
What is one to nine?
When a drug shows changes the number of people with high blood pressure from 80 percent to 40 percent, it is a difference of 40 __________.
What is percentage points?
This Colorado city can standalone in a sentence, without being paired with its state name.
What is Denver?
This form of libel is spoken.
What is slander?
This elbow surgery is named after a famous pitcher who suffered this ailment.
What is Tommy John?
These alerts tell the public when there is the possibility of a tornado in the next several hours.
What is a tornado watch?
(a tornado warning is issued when there is a tornado in the area)
Which is the correct style?
105 Main St.
105 Main Street
What is 105 Main St.?
In medical research, the best studies randomly assign a group of people to either get a treatment or a placebo. When neither the doctor or the patients knows which treatment was received it is this kind of study.
What is "double blind?"
This national or local voting event is held the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November.
What is Election Day?
What is defamation?
When a player scores three goals in a game of soccer or hockey.
What is a hat trick?
Hurricanes are ranked by this, from 1-5, with the highest number being the most severe.
What is hurricane categories?
The style for numbers that start a sentence is this.
What is spell out?
When researchers looked at results of many different studies to draw conclusions from the collective findings it is this kind of study.
What is a meta-analysis?
This trademark abbreviation for a battery of tests that is considered an equivalent of a high school diploma.
What is GED?
These are not protected under copyright law.
What are ideas and facts?
A team does this when it beats the expectation of oddsmakers for that game.
What is cover the spread?
This federal agency issues weather forecasts and warns the public of hazardous weather conditions.
What is the National Weather Service?
These numbers are used for the names of wars and for identifying sequences of people.
What are Roman numerals?
Drug studies are conducted in this many phases in human subjects
What is three?
What is hillbilly?