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AP Stylebook Workshops


Learn AP style mechanics and content guidance straight from the source, Oct. 1-Nov. 19

Join editors from The Associated Press for one or both engaging AP Stylebook Workshops in fall 2025, and you'll build your knowledge of AP style and your confidence in how to apply it to your work.

First, AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics will focus on the fundamentals including punctuation, capitalization and numerals.

Immediately following, AP Stylebook Workshop 201: Refine Your Content will cover the big-picture questions of how to improve of your writing and editing to make your copy clear and compelling.

Participate in live virtual sessions with the editors who make AP style or watch recordings at your convenience. You’ll get all the decks to review, as well. You can ask Stylebook editor Anna Jo Bratton your AP style questions in the online classroom’s discussion forum, in addition to during each webinar’s Q&A.

Each registration includes access to AP Stylebook Online, our searchable and customizable AP style resource, as well as AP Stylebook Study Guides, a series of self-scoring quizzes that reinforce the workshop's lessons.

Register now to begin your access to Stylebook Online, Stylebook Study Guides and the online classroom’s extensive on-demand videos right away.

Each AP Stylebook Workshop will sell for $299, but you can sign up at the early-bird rate of $199 through Aug. 22. The early-bird discount is the best price we will offer for the AP Stylebook Workshops. Group rates will go into effect after Aug. 22, but you can get early-bird pricing regardless of the size of your group.

LIMITED-TIME OFFER: Sign up for both AP Stylebook Workshops to learn about both mechanics and content and pay just $350. This special pricing applies only when the same participant joins us for both workshops this fall.

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— Watch a mix of short instructional videos and recordings of hourlong webinars.
— Develop your knowledge using access to AP Stylebook Online and AP Stylebook Study Guides, with access available as soon as you register.
— Keep access to AP Stylebook Workshop content, including the online classroom, AP Stylebook Online and AP Stylebook Study Guides, through Feb. 27, 2026.


— The AP Stylebook Workshop is offered in partnership with Edmaker, experts in online learning communities.
— Edmaker hosts the course on its web-based platform. There's nothing to download or install, but you will need a current browser and reliable internet connectivity.
— All live webinars take place on Zoom. For best results, run a current version of Zoom on your desktop or laptop computer. You can participate on your mobile device, but you will have a richer experience on a computer with a bigger screen so you can see the text on screen and engage in chat. If your security policy prevents installing Zoom, ask your technology team if you can watch the sessions using web-based Zoom as an alternative.
— After you register for the AP Stylebook Workshop on the Stylebook website, you will receive a claim code via email. When you redeem that code via the link included in the email, you will get an email from Edmaker to access the online workshop and a separate email from APStylebook.com with access to Stylebook Online and Stylebook Study Guides.
— If you sign up on behalf of multiple users, you will get an email with a set of claim codes. Share one code with each user who you would like to participate, along with the activation code link. As your users redeem their claim codes, they will get their activation emails from Edmaker and APStylebook.com.
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— Your primary instructor is Anna Jo Bratton, editor of the Associated Press Stylebook. Anna Jo has served on the AP Stylebook committee for more than a decade. She played a critical role in devising guidance around business, technology and disabilities, as well as several other topics. Anna Jo became Stylebook editor after serving on the Top Stories Hub, where she edited stories from around the globe. She started at AP in 2007 as a political reporter in Nebraska and held a variety of editing roles in the West Region, based in Phoenix, before serving as U.S. enterprise editor and global enterprise editor in New York. She graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in journalism in 2003.
Anna Jo will be joined by the members of the Stylebook editing team.

AP Stylebook Workshops


Program

All live sessions take place on Zoom, 11 a.m. to noon Eastern.

The online classroom includes an interactive Q&A where you can submit your questions in advance for possible inclusion in live sessions. We also offer live Q&A via Zoom.


AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics, Oct. 1-22

Week 1: Get picky about punctuation

Incorrect punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence and undermine your credibility. Immerse yourself in this quick refresher course that covers the basics of how to punctuate your writing with authority.

This session will help you:

  • Pick the right punctuation, and avoid the unnecessary.
  • Learn about commas, periods or semicolons; discover how to use exclamation points. and parentheses; and see why rules for quotation marks are worth searing into memory.
  • Use the Stylebook to solve punctuation quandaries.

Week 2: Capitalization and numbers

In this session, we’ll talk through rules about capitalization and numbers, and the many exceptions. We’ll teach you how to make the best choice for your writing when the rules are unclear.

This session will help you:

  • Avoid unnecessary capitalization.
  • Learn how to justify using a capital; also, remember your audience.
  • Interpret the dictionary’s advice on capitals.
  • Learn when to use numerals and when to use words.
  • Gain insight on how to navigate the exceptions.

Week 3: Clarify your copy

Choose the right words. Often, what would be good writing is confusing because the words aren’t well-known, ideas aren’t explained well or concepts are confusing. Usually mistakes in writing come from the writer not understanding the material, or not knowing how to convey it in a universal way.

This session will help you:

  • Cut the cliches and ax the acronyms
  • Learn how and when to adapt your internal style rules to suit your medium.
  • Get tips for self-editing.

Week 4: FAQs from 50 States

Ellen Jovin has crisscrossed the United States answering questions and settling debates at her pop up advice stand, Grammar Table. She’ll join us to share the language questions that vex Americans the most – as well as a few of Ellen’s favorite obscure questions.

In this session, Ellen will join us to discuss:

  • What confuses and frustrates people about American English.
  • How AP style addresses those questions, and how those answers might differ from other language guides.
  • Why clarity is the ultimate goal, because communication matters more than pedantry.


AP Stylebook Workshop 201: Refine Your Content, Oct. 29-Nov. 19

Week 1: Clarify your copy: Use AP style to sharpen your writing and editing

Learn core style rules that can help sharpen your writing. Start with a compelling lead. Use succinct language. Cut excess detail. Avoid cliches and jargon. Use quotations only if they are the best way to tell the story and be careful how you paraphrase.

This course will help you:

  • Write a solid nut graph.
  • Explain unfamiliar terms.
  • Use easy-to-understand explanations of complex ideas.

Week 2: Get perspective about English’s rules from Merriam-Webster’s editor at large

Why does the English language sometimes feel like a complicated mess? Find out from Merriam-Webster editor at large, Peter Sokolowski. He’ll share guidance on what to do when there's no clear right and wrong or when the rules are gray and require judgment. You’ll come away with guidance on how and when to use the dictionary and Stylebook in tandem.


Week 3: Tell accurate, inclusive stories

Make sure you are writing accurate, fair and inclusive content. Inclusivity isn’t just a buzzword: It’s key to ensuring your work is relevant to a wide audience and doesn’t build barriers to communication.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn strategies for how to make your writing more compelling by including an array of voices.
  • Consider the pitfalls of writing that isn’t inclusive.
  • Discuss how to bring these principles into your writing process.

Week 4: Make better judgment calls

Style in writing calls for constant decision-making. In this session, you’ll learn how and when to make judgments about what to include, what to cut and how to frame your story, based on your audience and story format.

In this session, you will:

  • Hone your judgment on story framing, based on audience and format.
  • Talk about when to break the rules.
  • Consider how and when to adapt your internal style rules to suit your medium.