Copyreading and Headline Writing (Symbols and Tips)
- 25. TAKE A LOOK More than just marks and words
- 26. It is the art of arranging, correcting, and selecting the quality and type of news It is also called copyediting. What is Copyreading?
- 27. 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.
- 28. 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
- 29. What to copy read? Errors in fact Errors in Grammar Mechanics Errors in Structures Seditious/ Rebellious materials Opinionating/ Editorializing statements Libelous and derogatory statements Verbal deadwoods / Redundant words / Wasteful words
- 30. Verbal deadwoods / Redundant words 2 0 1 7 S C H O O L S P R E S S C O N F E R E N C E 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 comes home in the month of December.
- 31. Wasteful Words 1. She was absent yesterday for the reason that she suffered from influenza . 2. A larger proportion of the students voted for him. 3. The class is in the AVR at the present time. 4. Many of the Filipinos who have not attended school are not aware of their rights. 5. She came ahead of the scheduled time to make sure that everything was in order before the session. because Most / Majority now uneducated early
- 32. Copyediting Symbols Symbol Instruction Example
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- 34. Copyediting Symbols Symbol Instruction Example
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- 38. “YOU CANNOT CORRECT UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG.”
- 39. RULE OF THUMB: SELL THE SIZZLE, NOT THE STEAK HEADLINE WDITING Writing the Headline
- 41. Headlines are display windows of newspapers. A headline is the title of the a news story It summarizes the whole news story The Headlines
- 42. To tell in capsule form what the story is all about • To make the page look attractive Functions of Headlines
- 43. Structure of Headlines 1. Flush left – both lines are flushed to the left margin 2. Dropline / Step form – first line flushed left while the second is indented Family planning Seminar held Local boy scouts bleed for a cause
- 44. Structure of Headlines 3. Inverted pyramid 4. Hanging indention – flushed line is followed by two indented parallel lines School launches kalinisan drive Chief editor bats for more development news
- 45. Structure of Headlines 5. Crossline / barline – one-line headline that runs across the column
- 46. Rules in Writing Headlines Make the headline as short as possible. Ideally, maximum of five words.
- 47. Make sure that the headline answers as many Ws as possible. The headline should summarize 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. Rules in Writing Headlines
- 48. Rules in Writing Headlines Put an action verb, expressed or implied, in every headline Do not begin with a verb, 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
- 49. Use numbers in headlines only if they are important Do not abbreviate days of the 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 Rules in Writing Headlines
- 50. Rules in Writing Headlines Write numbers in figures. 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 Five cops – 5 cops Seven million pesos – Php7-M Ninety nine percent – 99% Thirty participants – 30 participants
- 51. 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.
- 52. “I JUDGE THE NEWS BY ITS HEADLINE.” They say,“Don’t judge a book by its cover”….
- 53. EXERCISES: At least forty oficials & personel have contunud to assumed varios posts on the bureau of Costums (BOC) & receive salaries form the agency expire in Dec. last year. These was revealed in a 2-page memorandum too Customs Commissoner john P. Sevilla buy the Commision on audit (COA), wich questiond the detail of oficials & employees of the other agency to thhe BOC.
- 54. EXERCISES: