G0472
Week 13 :
Review and Exercises
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Learning Outcomes
The students are expected to
be able to understand and
apply
their editing skills.
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Review Exercise
• The difference between copy editing and
proofreading
• Distinctions among copy-editing work for
newspapers, magazines, and books
• What is a style book?
• Copy-editing and proofreading symbols
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Review
Review
• Spelling
• Punctuation
• Grammar and syntax
• Word usage
• Consistency and "house style"
• When to check facts
• Queries to the author
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Review
•Differences between editing on a computer
screen and editing on paper
•Coding for typography and layout
•Special aspects of copy editing "live" on the
screen
•Absence of proofreading in the electronic
production process (and what it means to a copy
editor)
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Review and Exercises
• Spelling test (commonly misspelled
words)
• Strategies for improving one's spelling
ability
• Common punctuation errors
• Rules of punctuation
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Review and Exercises
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Subject-verb agreement
Sequence of tenses
Modifier placement
Grammar "watch list"
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Syntax and Structural Problems
Syntax and Structural Problems
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Keeping an eye peeled for scrambled syntax
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Pitfalls of antecedents
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Sneaky danglers
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Mixed metaphors
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Recasting a murky sentence
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Fixing (or querying) a bad lede
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Fixing (or querying) a big structural problem
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Consistency & Word Usage
• Within an article: proper names, dates (chronology),
etc.
• Within a graphics layout (abbreviations,
capitalization, fonts, etc.)
• In a multipage layout (body text, headlines,
captions, art elements)
• In a story package, i.e. multiple stories, sidebars
• Usage debates.
• Sexist language and racism
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Editing a story: Find and edit ten
mistakes in the story below!
Last weekend some friends and I decided to take a picnic to a
waterfall in North Bandung. Some of my friends drive cars and
take food, but the rest of us want to walk. Since it was too far
to walk along the the road, we follow a railroad line. We had
walked five or six miles when we come to a high rock wall
where the track entered a tunnel. We be surprised. Nobody
tell us about it. The tunnel did not look very long, but it was
narrow and we know it would be dangerous if a train came.
However, we couldn’t climb the rocks or go around them, and
no one wanted to go back. I have a good breakfast, but some
of the others not eat. They want to get to the waterfall and
have lunch. Finally we decided to go through. I knew it was
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foolish, but I went because the others did.