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JTC 310 - Copy Editing

  • 3 credits

Theory of copy preparation and editing; publication layout.

Course learning objectives:

  • Review and improve personal writing skills including grammar, punctuation, word usage and sentence structure.
  • Demonstrate improved proficiency in editing copy: yours and others. This will include ability to identify and correct vocabulary, spelling, grammar and punctuation errors as well as the 5 C’s of effective writing: clarity, completeness, coherence, consistency and correctness.
  • Explore visual opportunities to accompany story text.
  • Apply ethics skills and libel standards to news judgment decisions.
  • Evaluate page and web design as it relates to readership.
  • Discover fact checking techniques.
  • Explore techniques and guidelines for headlines, photo captions and social media teasers.
  • Demonstrate working knowledge of the AP Stylebook.

Prerequisite

JTC 210 (Newswriting)