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AP Stylebook Workshops


Learn AP style straight from the source for content and mechanics in two courses

  • AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics, Wednesdays, Feb. 10-March 3, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern
  • AP Stylebook Workshop 201: Refine Your Content, Wednesdays, March 10-31, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

Join editors from The Associated Press for one or both engaging AP Stylebook Workshops in 2027, and you'll build your knowledge of AP style and your confidence in how to apply it to your work.

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

Then in March, AP Stylebook Workshop 201: Refine Your Content will cover the big-picture questions of how to improve 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 for either workshop at the early-bird rate of $199 through Wednesday, Dec. 16. The early-bird discount is the best price we will offer for the AP Stylebook Workshops. Group rates will go into effect after Wednesday, Dec. 16, 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 in 2027.

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— Learn from the Stylebook team in hourlong webinars and on-demand instructional videos.
— Engage in conversations with classmates and practice your skills in the lively online classroom.
— 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 July 31, 2027.


— 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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Bring your colleagues, classmates or friends and you all get a better price. Sign everyone up at once to automatically get group pricing:
— 3 to 4 registrants: 10% off per user
— 5 to 10 registrants: 15% off per user
— 11 to 20 registrants: 20% off per user
— 21+ registrants: 25% off per user


— 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

Each workshop consists of four live webinars featuring practical instruction, real-world examples and guidance from AP editors and Stylebook experts. All live sessions take place on Zoom.

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.

You will have access to AP Stylebook Workshop content, including the online classroom, AP Stylebook Online and AP Stylebook Study Guides, until July 31, 2027.

AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics

Wednesdays, Feb. 10-March 3, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

A foundational series for writers, editors and communicators who want to use AP style accurately, consistently and confidently.

Week 1: Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

AP Stylebook ABCs

Let’s get back to basics. Take a brief look at the history and purpose of AP style, why shared standards matter and how organizations inside and outside journalism use the Stylebook. Explore high-impact style rules, recent changes and the best ways to find answers in AP Stylebook Online.

This session will help you:

  • Use AP style to make communication clearer, more consistent and more credible.
  • Discuss how the AP Stylebook differs from other stylebooks and how stylebooks differ from dictionaries and grammar guides.
  • Navigate AP Stylebook Online and find reliable answers efficiently.

Speakers: Anna Jo Bratton, AP Stylebook Editor, and Colleen Newvine, Product Manager.


Week 2: Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

Get picky about punctuation

Refresh your understanding of the punctuation choices that make copy clear and easy to read. Review commas, semicolons, colons, apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens, dashes and the occasional exclamation point. Learn how to make a sound editorial choice when more than one option seems possible.

This session will help you:

  • Choose the punctuation that best expresses the relationship between words and ideas.
  • Avoid common mistakes, including unnecessary apostrophes, comma splices and misplaced punctuation.
  • Place punctuation correctly with quotation marks and parenthetical material.
  • Punctuate lists, compound modifiers and complex sentences with confidence.
  • Recognize when strict application of a rule could make a sentence less clear.

Week 3: Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

The rules you ask about most: Capitalization, numerals, titles and more

Get practical answers to the AP style questions that come up again and again. Review capitalization and numerals; abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms; dates, times and percentages; and frequently misunderstood guidance involving the serial, or Oxford, comma, parenthetical abbreviations and titles.

This session will help you:

  • Avoid unnecessary capitalization.
  • Correctly present numbers, dates, times, ages, dimensions, money and percentages.
  • Avoid alphabet soup and apply rules on abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms correctly
  • Apply frequently questioned rules, including when to use a serial comma and when to use Dr. before a person’s name.

Week 4: Wednesday, March 3, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

Guest speaker TBA.



AP Stylebook Workshop 201: Refine Your Content

Wednesdays, March 10-31, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

An advanced series for experienced writers, editors and communicators who understand the mechanics of AP style and want to strengthen their editorial judgment, audience awareness and command of complex subjects.

Week 1: Wednesday, March 10, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

Beyond the Basics

Correct mechanics are only part of effective writing. Learn core style principles that can sharpen your message, including using succinct language and avoiding cliches, jargon and vague phrasing. Use the Stylebook strategically to refine your story idea.

This session will help you:

  • Cut cliches, buzzwords, redundancies and vague or inflated language.
  • Use direct quotations only when they are the strongest way to convey information, emotion or voice; paraphrase accurately without changing a source’s meaning.
  • Learn what makes a good lead and nutgraph. Build an outline to keep your writing focused.
  • Use the breadth of the Stylebook’s resources: How do you decide if a health and science story is legitimate? Is this poll valid?

Week 2: Wednesday, March 17, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

Guest speaker TBA


Week 3: Wednesday, March 24, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

What you need to know about using AI

Learn how to evaluate and use artificial intelligence tools without compromising accuracy, confidentiality, transparency or editorial independence. Explore appropriate ways to save time on routine work while maintaining meaningful human oversight. This session draws from the AP Stylebook’s chapter on Artificial Intelligence and the AP’s AI usage guidelines.

This session will help you:

  • Review current journalistic and industry standards for the ethical use of AI.
  • Identify lower-risk tasks for which AI tools may be useful, as well as tasks that require greater caution or should remain entirely human-led.
  • Evaluate tools for reliability, transparency, privacy, security and bias.
  • Recognize the risks of entering confidential, proprietary or unpublished information into an AI system.
  • Develop clear expectations for disclosure, human review and accountability.

Week 4: Wednesday, March 31, 2027, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

Hone your judgment

Style in writing requires constant decision-making. Learn how to determine what to include, what to cut, what requires context and how to frame a story or message for its intended audience and format. Write for the broadest audience; use the right language to describe people with precision and respect.

This session will help you:

  • Make thoughtful decisions about framing based on audience, purpose and platform.
  • Adapt internal style rules to different audiences and formats without sacrificing consistency.
  • Make writing authoritative and compelling by including a broad, relevant range of voices.
  • Recognize whose perspectives are missing and avoid treating a single source as representative of an entire community.
  • Apply the Stylebook’s underlying principles — accuracy, clarity, fairness and consistency — when no entry directly answers your question.