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Copyreading and Headlining

The document discusses the responsibilities and techniques of copy editors, including editing for grammar, facts, clarity, and style. Key aspects covered include spelling, abbreviations, acronyms, paragraphs, leads, grammar, punctuation like periods, commas, and hyphens, quotation marks, redundancies, and printer's directions.

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Copyreading and Headlining

The document discusses the responsibilities and techniques of copy editors, including editing for grammar, facts, clarity, and style. Key aspects covered include spelling, abbreviations, acronyms, paragraphs, leads, grammar, punctuation like periods, commas, and hyphens, quotation marks, redundancies, and printer's directions.

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COPYREADING AND

HEADLINING
COPYREADING
• Is the art of arranging, correcting, and selecting
the quality and type of news
• Also called copyediting
• The one who copies is called a copyreader or
copyeditor
RESPONSIBILITIES OF A COPYEDITOR

• Edit errors on grammar (spelling, tenses, agreement)


• Edit errors on facts (accuracy check)
• Edit verbose copy
• Delete opinion or slant and libelous statements
• Writes the headline
POINTERS IN
COPYEDITING
NUMBERS
• Number 1-10 are written in words
• Numbers 11-above are written in figures

Example:
nine students
13 children
NUMBERS
• EXCEPTIONS:
• Dates, address are ALWAYS in figures
• Beginning of sentence: ALWAYS in words
• Events: 1st- 9th is allowed
MONTHS
• August-February
-may be abbreviated if accompanied with
numbers

example:
Jan. 15, 2018
She will travel this January.
MONTHS
• March- July
-NEVER abbreviated

example:
June 28, 1995
She is born in early June.
SPELLING
• Look for misspelled words
• We use American English, not British English
• Shorts spellings are preferred
Example:
√ color
x colour
ABBREVIATIONS
• Spell out Dept., gov’t, and other abbreviations
• Jr. and Sr. are allowed in names

Example:
Engr. Emmanuel Delgado
Engineer Delgado
ABBREVIATIONS
• A title or position of a person may be abbreviated if it
appears before a name, but not if simply used in the
sentence

Example:
Sen. Recto filed another taxation bill yesterday.
The senator filed another taxation bill yesterday.
ACRONYM
• Are usually written in capital letters
example:
BCIS
DENR
PDEA
VNHS
ACRONYM
• When an acronym appears for the first time in a
news story, it is written after its meaning and it is
enclosed in parentheses

Example:
University of the Philippines (UP) will be conducting a
journalism training to all high school teachers of Victorias City,
Negros Occidental.
ACRONYM
Example:
Victorias National High School (VNHS) Victorians, the
official English student publication of VNHS, will be
representing Western Visayas in National Schools’ Press
Conference (NSPC) on January 25, 2019 at Dagupan
City, Pangasinan.
PARAGRAPH
• First sentence of a paragraph is indented
• In news stories, the rule is one paragraph, one
sentence only.
LEAD
• There should be no names of unknown persons in
the lead
• Check for buried leads
• Standard lead answers the 5Ws and 1H
GRAMMAR
• Check for errors in:
• Tenses of verbs
• Subject-verb agreement
• Pronoun-antecedent agreement
• Articles (a, an, the)
GRAMMAR
• Example:
he said not said he
Aquino said not said Aquino
three-day training not three-days training
PERIOD
Used in abbreviations such as:

• p.m. • Sen. • Dr.


• a.m. • Rep. • Fr.
• Jr. • Gov. • Atty.
• Sr. • Gen. • Corp.
• Pres. • Capt. • Inc.
PERIOD
• Acronyms of schools, organizations and offices do
not need period
COMMA
• Use commas:
• To separate the month and day from the year
• Separate street, barangay, town and province in an
address
• To separate facts concerning victims and suspects

Example
Jolas Burayag, 17, of Barangay San Fernando Norte
COMMA
• Do not use commas:
• To separate the abbreviation Jr., Sr., or III from the
name

Example:
Emmanuel Delgado Jr.
Juan Dela Cruz III
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
QUOTATION MARKS
• Used in direct quotations
• Indirect quotations do not need quotation
marks

example:
“I forgot it,” he said.
He said he forgot it.
QUOTATION MARKS
• Are used to set off titles of events, shows,
movies, books, etc.

example:
We watched “The Titanic.”
QUOTATION MARKS
• Are used to set off an alias or nickname

example:
Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr.
Juan Chua a.k.a. “Boy Singkit”
REMINDERS
• Check for redundancies (recurring
words/phrases/paragraphs, synonyms or
redundant terms)
• 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
PRINTER DIRECTIONS
2/ 24/ TNR-B/ 1
FL / CLC
• The first number refers to the number of lines your
headline will have.
• The second number stands for the font size to be
used
PRINTER DIRECTIONS
2/ 24/ TNR-B/ 1
FL / CLC
• TNR (Times New Roman) indicates the font type.
• B stands for bold, a type style
• The third number means that the headline will run
across one column of the page.
PRINTER DIRECTIONS
2/ 24/ TNR-B/ 1
FL / CLC

• FL means flushed left, the structure of the headline


• CLC, caps lower-case, is the headline style
LET’S TRY!
Check for Understanding
Correct Usage, Grammar, and Mechanics
1. Anthony’s collection of guns (amaze, amazes) me.
2. The show started at (8p.m. , 8 o’clock).
3. She will send (I, me) a letter.
4. Carol and (I, me) will play at the park.
5. There (is, are) ten thousand students in the
classroom.
Correct Usage, Grammar, and Mechanics
1. with regards to with regard to
2. all-right alright
3. embarassment embarrassment
4. to wards toward
5. privileges
6. commitee committee
7. diph-theria diphtheria
8. dess iminate disseminate
QUESTIONS?

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