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Copyreading involves editing stories for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and factual accuracy. A good copyreader is proficient in English, knowledgeable about style guidelines, and able to use copyediting symbols. The copyediting process includes getting an overview of the story, correcting errors, verifying facts, and writing the headline. Headlines advertise and summarize stories while beautifying the page and indicating a story's importance. When writing headlines, writers should use active verbs and vivid nouns while avoiding unnecessary words and maintaining brevity and clarity.
Copyreading involves editing stories for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and factual accuracy. A good copyreader is proficient in English, knowledgeable about style guidelines, and able to use copyediting symbols. The copyediting process includes getting an overview of the story, correcting errors, verifying facts, and writing the headline. Headlines advertise and summarize stories while beautifying the page and indicating a story's importance. When writing headlines, writers should use active verbs and vivid nouns while avoiding unnecessary words and maintaining brevity and clarity.
Copyreading involves editing stories for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and factual accuracy. A good copyreader is proficient in English, knowledgeable about style guidelines, and able to use copyediting symbols. The copyediting process includes getting an overview of the story, correcting errors, verifying facts, and writing the headline. Headlines advertise and summarize stories while beautifying the page and indicating a story's importance. When writing headlines, writers should use active verbs and vivid nouns while avoiding unnecessary words and maintaining brevity and clarity.
Copyreading – is just another word for editing. A copyreader is an specialist who improves the story.
A good copyreader must:
- Be good in English/Filipino. - Know his stylebook. - Have mastery of copyreading symbols. - Know the paper’s policy. - Be observant of the details. (grammar, spelling, punctuation, correct usage) Steps in copyreading: 1. Get an overview of the story. 2. Correct the grammar, punctuation, spelling. 3. Verify the accuracy of facts and determine whether the story contains all essential information. 4. Correct errors in lead facts, proper subordination of details and paragraphing. 5. Look out for editorializing, biases and possible grounds for libel. 6. Write the headline HEADLINE WRITING News stories have no titles; they have headlines. Headlines perform the following functions:
1. They advertise the stories. They arouse interest
so the people will read the stories. 2. They summarize the story. 3. They beautify the page. They bring balance, symmetry and beauty to a well arranged page. 4. To grade the news as to importance TIPS TO HEADLINE WRITERS 1. Read the story for general meaning. 2. Search the key words on which to base your headline. The Philippines proposed yesterday immediate adoption of an emergency program that will have an effective impact on the “ruinously” low world market price of sugar. 3. Clues to the headlines are usually in the lead. What happened? Who did what? How did it happen? 4. Use brief and shortest words. 5. Use colorful nouns; vigorous, active verbs. 6. Have a subject and a verb. Avoid starting with a verb, the headline might sound as if it were giving orders.
Not: Revise money
mart guidelines But: CB revises money mart guidelines 7. Omit articles (a, an, the) 8. Use a comma instead of and. 9. Use single quotes in headlines. When your assertions and the sources are given, quotation marks are not needed, a one-em dash will serve the purpose.
Basketball team ‘brings home bacon’
10. Omit forms of to be especially when used as a helping
verb. Isip chosen editor
11. Avoid splitting words that naturally go together.
Wrong: BHS observes Buwan
ng wika with tilts Right: BHS holds Buwan ng Wika tilts 12. Use the exclamation point sparingly. 13. Use the down style - only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized. Faculty honors Bacani 14. Don’t leave a preposition at the end of the line.
Wrong: Mentors call for
reform of schools
Right: Mentors call
for reform of schools 15. Use only widely known abbreviations. 16. Be positive, don’t use negatives in headlines. They weaken not only the headline but also the stories.
Not: US doesn’t trust Peking-
Moscow normalization overtures But: US wary on Peking-Moscow normalization overtures 17. Use kickers to attract attention. 18. Don’t use X-mas for Christmas. 19. Use the present tense for past stories and the infinitive for future stories. 20. Write numbers in figures or spell them out depending upon your need for your unit counts. UNIT COUNTS ½ unit - lower case j,i,l,t,f ; all punctuation marks
Except em-dash, question mark.
1 unit - all lower case letters except j,i,l,t,f and
m & w, space, figures, question mark, em- dash.
1 ½ unit - all capital letters except JILTF, lower
case m & w
2 units - capital M and W
Verbal deadwood – useless phrasing of any sort. 1. for the reason that - because 2. at the present time - now 3. affixed his signature - signed 4. were united in holy matrimony – were married 5. abrasions and contusion – cuts and bruises 6. acquaint - tell 7. adequate bus transportation – enough buses 8. ahead of schedule - early 9. a man by the name of – man named 10. assistance - aid or help 11. at an early date – soon 12. attempt - try 13. beverage - drink 14. bifurcation – division/split 15. attire – wore 16. called a halt - stopped 17. cloudburst – heavy rains 18. conflagration – fire 19. constructed of wood – made of wood or wooden Redundancy- unnecessary repetition of ideas. 1. advance prediction 2. fatal killing 3. final conclusion 4. other alternative 5. got up at 6 a.m. in the morning 6. in our modern world of today 7. spherical in shape 8. blue in color 9. heavy in weight 10. sinampal sa mukha 11. isinandal ang likod 12. pasa sa balikat Headline vocabulary 1. attacks – hits 2. supports – backs 3. increase - hike 4. stops - nips 5. approval – nod 6. syndicate – gang 7 investigation – probe 8. disapprove – scrap 9. ended - busted 10. approve – uphold THANK YOU….