inverted pyramid and AP style
in Brad Cooper’s story “New soccer complex lands national youth tournament” in the Kansas City Star, he clearly uses the inverted pyramid style ad several AP rules.
Cooper begins with a lead that simply states the topic of the story. he then explains the lead in more detail, as well as provides a bit of background information on the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championship and the location of the soccer fields. he follows these details with some pertinent quotations. he ends with some facts about the history of the soccer fields. in this story, it is easy to see that Cooper moves from the most important information down to the least.
his story also conveniently provides many opportunities to see AP style at work. he uses money totals over a million dollars (“$36 million”) and dates with the month, date, and year (“July 20-25 2010″). Cooper also uses several numbers in the form of digits, and he has addresses with the full names of streets spelled out.
the link: http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1254114.html
