COPYREADING/COPYEDITING

ALYSSA MARIE O.
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 TAKE A LOOK

More than just

marks and
words
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 What is Copyreading?

It is the art of arranging,

correcting, and selecting
the quality and type of
news
It is also called
copyediting.

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 What is a Copy?

A copy is a material sent

to the typist to be typeset

It may be a news story, a

feature article, an
editorial, or a literary
piece, etc.

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 What is a Copyreader?

One who edits copies is

called a copyreader or
copyeditor

The copyreader goes

over the story and makes
the necessary
corrections and revisions
in the copy to improve it

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 Errors in fact
What to Errors in Grammar
copy read? Mechanics
Errors in Structures
Seditious/ Rebellious materials
Opinionating/ Editorializing
statements
Libelous and derogatory
statements
Verbal deadwoods / Redundant
words / Wasteful words

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Verbal deadwoods / Redundant words

1. The board is currently having a conference

at the moment.
2. The store opens its doors at 8 AM in the morning.
3. Sen. Enrile wrote a biography of his life five
years ago.
4. The Malaylay Pottery Association holds an
annual seminar in the Sitio of Malaylay.
5. Tita Helen promised to give me a free gift when
she comes2017home in the month of December.
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 Wasteful Words
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1. She was absent yesterday for the reason that she suffered
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from influenza .
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2. AMajority
larger proportion of the students voted for him.

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3. The class is in the AVR at the present time.
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4. Many of the Filipinos who have not
ed attended school are not
aware of their rights.
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5. She came ahead of the scheduled
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everything was in order before the session.
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 Responsibilities of a Copy Editor

 Edits errors on grammar

(spelling, tenses,
agreement, etc.)
 Edits errors of fact
(accuracy check)
 Edits verbose copy
 Deletes opinion or slant
and libelous statements
 Writes the headline

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 Copy Preparation Guidelines

 Type an end sign, “-30-” at the

end of each story
 Always use a pencil to edit
copy, never a pen
 Writers and editors use
standard copyreading marks
to make corrections
 Proofreaders and typesetters
use standard proofreading
symbols

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 Copyediting Symbols
Symbol Instruction Example

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 Copyediting Symbols
Symbol Instruction Example

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 Copyediting Symbols
Symbol Instruction Example

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 Copyediting Symbols
Symbol Instruction Example

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 Copyediting Symbols
Symbol Instruction Example

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Sample Edited Copy

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“YOU CANNOT
CORRECT
UNLESS YOU
KNOW THAT
THERE IS
SOMETHING
HEADLINE WDITING
RULE OF THUMB: SELL THE SIZZLE, NOT THE STEAK

Writing the Headline

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The Headlines

Headlines are display

windows of
newspapers.
A headline is the title
of the a news story
It summarizes the
whole news story

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 Functions of Headlines

To tell in capsule

form what the story
is all about
• To make the page
look attractive

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 1. Flush left – both lines are
Structure flushed to the left margin
of Family planning
Headlines Seminar held

2. Dropline / Step form – first line

flushed left while the second is
indented
Local boy scouts
bleed for a cause

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 3. Inverted pyramid
Structure School launches
of kalinisan
drive
Headlines
4. Hanging indention – flushed
line is followed by two indented
parallel lines
Chief editor
bats for more
development news

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 5. Crossline / barline – one-line
Structure headline that runs across the
column
of
Headlines

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 6. Boxed headline - for
Structure emphasis or art
of Community involvement
Headlines Full box Science camp team

Half box Campus papers catalysts

For national development

Quarter box Local students, teachers

Bleed for a cause today

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 7. Jump story headline – this may be
Structure the same as the original headline or it
may just be a word or a phrase
of followed by a series of dots
Headlines
Local students …
( From page 2)

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 Make the headline as short as
Rules in possible. Ideally, maximum of five
Writing words.
Headlines

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  Make sure that the headline
Rules in answers as many Ws as
Writing possible.
 The headline should summarize
Headlines the story. It should not contain
anything which is not found in
the story.
 Positive headlines are
preferable than the negative
ones.
 Use the strongest word in the
first line as much a possible.

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  Put an action verb, expressed or
Rules in implied, in every headline
Writing  Do not begin with a verb,
Headlines preposition, article or
conjunction
 Avoid the verb form to be
 Use present tense verbs in
writing headlines describing past
events
 Use future tense verbs to write
headlines about future events

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  Use numbers in headlines only if
Rules in they are important
Writing  Do not abbreviate days of the
Headlines week in headlines
 Substitute a comma for the
conjunction and
 Use single quote marks in place
of double quote marks in a
headline
 Use the active voice
 Use abbreviations only if they
are well-known
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  Write numbers in figures.
Rules in
Five cops – 5 cops
Writing Seven million pesos – Php7-M
Headlines Ninety nine percent – 99%
Thirty participants – 30 participants

 Omit articles like a, an, the and all

forms of the verb to be ( is, are, be )
unless needed to make the meaning
clear.

Reclaimed banks cause of recurrent floods

Clinton is new US president
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 Unit Counting in Headlines
 Writing headlines is not so simple as it seems to
be. A headlines should fit the allotted space by a
system unit counts given to each letter, figure or
space.
 However, in computerized headline writing, there
is no need to count units.

 Unit counting in headline is done to

avoid a thin head, fat head or a
bleeding head.
 Unit THIN HEAD
Counting The space between the
in letters of the words, or the
Headlines space after the words in a line
are so wide

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 Unit FAT HEAD
Counting The letters or the words are
in so crowded that there is no
Headlines space between them or the
space are so small that
several words read as one

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 Unit B LEEDING HEAD
Counting Some letters or words
in extend inside the column
Headlines

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 Counting the Headlines
1.All small letters except jilft and mw are counted as
1.

2. Small letters jilft are counted as ½.

3. Small letters m and w are counted as 1½.

4. All capital letters except MW are counted as 1½.

5. Capital letters M and W are counted as 2.

6. Capital letters J, I, L, F, T are counted as 1.

They say, “Don’t judge a
book by its cover”….

“I JUDGE THE
NEWS BY ITS
HEADLINE.”