Copy editing

COPY EDITING BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LlB

THE COPY

•Material for a newspaper article or magazine article.

•The text as written by the author.

CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LlB

COPYREADING

•Is also called as “COPY EDITING”.•It is an art of arranging, collecting and

selecting the quality and types of news.•The person who does the job is called

‘COPYREADER’ or ‘COPY EDITOR’


RESPONSIBILITIES OF A COPY EDITOR


EDITED COPY


COPY EDITING SYMBOLS










TIPS FOR EDITING

NUMBERS


EXCEPTIONS:


SPELLING


CAPITALIZATION

Sarah GeronimoCHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LlB

CAPITALIZATION


ABBREVIATIONS


ABBREVIATIONS


ACRONYMS


ACRONYMS


PARAGRAPH


LEAD


GRAMMAR


GRAMMAR


PUNCTUATION: PERIOD


PUNCTUATION: COMMA


PUNCTUATION: COMMA


PUNCTUATION: HYPEN


PUNCTUATION: QUOTATION MARK


PUNCTUATION: APOSTROPHE


REMINDERS


REMINDERS


THANK YOU FOR READING!

CHELDHAYE

Copy editing

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