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    The document provides guidelines for copyediting responsibilities and techniques. It discusses editing errors in grammar, facts, wordiness, and libelous statements. It also outlines copyediting symbols and pointers for numbers, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, acronyms, paragraphs, leads, grammar, and punctuation. Headline writing is also briefly covered.

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    The document provides guidelines for copyediting responsibilities and techniques. It discusses editing errors in grammar, facts, wordiness, and libelous statements. It also outlines copyediting symbols and pointers for numbers, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, acronyms, paragraphs, leads, grammar, and punctuation. Headline writing is also briefly covered.

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    COPYREADING (ENGLISH) JOURNALISM

    REVIEWER

    COPYREADING
    - It is the art of arranging, correcting, and selecting the quality and type of news.
    - Sometimes, it’s also called COPYEDITING.
    - The one who edits copies is called a COPYREADER or COPYEDITOR.

    RESPONSIBILITIES OF A COPYEDITOR
    1. Edit errors in grammar (Spelling, Tenses, Agreement, etc.)
    2. Edit Errors of FACT (Accuracy/Fact Check)
    3. Edits VERBOSE copy.
    4. Deletes opinion or slant in libelous statements.
    5. Writes the headline (Lead)

    COPYEDITING SYMBOLS

    http://www.dibbs.net/ap_ba
    https://brainly.ph/question/714288

    POINTERS IN COPYEDITING
    Numbers
    - The numbers 1-9 are written in words while the numbers 10 and above are written in figures. Ex. Nine
    students, 14 Children
    Exceptions:
    dates, address: always in figures
    proper nouns, may be written in figures/words
    Beginning of sentence, always in words
    events, 1st-9th is allowed

    Spelling
    – Look for misspelled words.
    (Here in the Philippines, American English is used, NOT British English) Ex. Color, NOT Colour
    - If a word has more than one accepted spelling, the shortest one is preferred.
    Ex. Judgment, instead of Judgement

    Capitalization
    - The first letter of the sentence is ALWAYS capitalized.
    Proper nouns are capitalized; common nouns are not.
    Ex. singer, Regine Velasquez
    - Small letters are usually used for title or position.

    Abbreviations
    - Spell out Dept., Gov’t, and other abbreviations
    - The abbreviations Jr. and Sr. are allowed in names.
    - A title or position of a person may be abbreviated if it appears before the name but not simply used in a
    sentence.

    Acronyms
    - Acronyms are usually written in capital letters. Ex. HCPSMSHS
    - Always check if the letters of the acronym are in the correct order.
    - When an acronym appears for the first time in a news story, it is written after its meaning, and it is enclosed
    in parentheses (). Ex. Department of Education (DepEd)

    Paragraph
    - The first sentence of a paragraph is indented.
    - In news stories, the rule is ONE SENTENCE, ONE PARAGRAPH only.

    Lead
    - There should be no names of unknown persons in the lead.
    - Check for buried leads.
    - The standard lead answers the 5W’s and 1H (Grammatical Beginning Lead).

    Grammar
    Check for errors in:
    - Tenses of Verbs
    - Subject-Verb Agreement
    - Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement (agreement in gender and number)
    - Articles (a, an, the)

    Punctuation (Period)
    - It is used for declarative and imperative sentences.
    - It is used in abbreviations such as p.m., a.m., Jr., Sr. Pres., Sen., Rep., Gov., Gen., etc.
    - Acronyms of schools, organizations, and offices do not need periods.

    Punctuation (Comma)
    Use commas to:
    - Separate the month and day from the year.
    - Separate the street, barangay, town, province, etc. in an address.
    - Separate facts concerning victims and suspects.
    Do not use commas to separate the abbreviation Jr., Sr., or III from the name.

    Punctuation (Hyphen)
    Use hyphen:
    - in most compound nouns. Ex: editor-in-chief, officer-in-charge
    - in fractions. Ex: two-thirds, three-fourths
    - in numerals. Ex: twenty-two, fifty-nine

    Punctuation (Quotation marks)


    - Quotation marks are used in direct quotations. Indirect quotations .do not need them
    Ex. “I forgot my book.” He said.
    He said he forgot it.
    - Periods and commas are written first before closing quotation marks.
    Ex. “I am going to SM, do you want to join?” He said.
    - Quotation Marks are used to set off titles of events, shows, movies, books, etc.
    Ex. “The Titanic” “The Three Little Monkeys”
    - Quotation marks are used to set off the alias or nickname.

    Punctuation (Apostrophe)
    - Apostrophes are used in the possessive form of the noun; Ex. The teacher’s Table
    - Or, In contractions. Ex. I’m (I am)

    REMINDERS
    - Watch out for jumbled letters, words, or paragraphs.
    - Check for joined/disjoined words. Ex. class room, newteacher
    - Delete editorializing/opinion words or phrases.
    - Check for redundancies (recurring words/phrases/paragraphs, synonymous or redundant terms). Ex. The
    concert the concert ended.
    - REMEMBER: After editing the news story, write 30 at the end of the article. If the article is not yet
    finished, write more at the bottom of the page.

    HEADLINE WRITING
    Headline – An assemblage of words written in bigger, bolder letters than the usual page text at the beginning
    of the news. It is NOT a title.

    Functions of a Headline
    1. To attract readers
    2. To tell the story (In a summary)
    3. To add variety of type (to break monotony in a sea of type)
    4. To identify personality of newspaper (use of font/style letters)
    5. To index/grade the news (Big type for important news; small type for less important)

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