Copyreading & Headline Writing
The Write Way to have Fun
A 2016 Basic Campus Journalism Writeshop
MR. MARK JULIUS D. FUENTES
Editing a copy is not just a simple task or correcting errors in grammar and facts. Unchecked data, which
often injected in the copies submitted by neophyte writers, if unnoticed, could put both the story and the
paper in the bad light.
Functions of a Copy Editor
1. Check facts.
2. Correct errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, usage, organization and others.
3. Improve news value.
4. Write effective lead.
5. Cut or delete irrelevant materials.
6. Delete editorializing materials in a news.
7. Guard against libelous statement.
8. Write headlines and decide its typography.
9. Make copy simple and clear.
10. Make copy conform to the newspaper style sheets.
11. Give instruction to the typesetter regarding font type and font size to be used and the number of
columns and ems.
12. Indicate corrections by using the copyreading marks.
COPYREADING MARKS
philippines
My Brother
Capitalize letter
Change to small
letter
Spell out
Friday
beautifullady
Life is the best gift from
God.
Abbreviate
Separate words
cchangess
reorient our innate
values
Delete beginning and
ending letters
Delete word and
bridge over
Mr.
Twenty-four
Change to figure
Exist and die.
the best
Life is
Indent as a new
paragraph
Start a new
paragraph
the teacher
life new
Insert word
Transpose letters or
words
repenttaance
sal vation
You can never be great
Unless you are good.
Punto de Vista
Delete letter or letters
within
Close up
Indent material
Set in italic type
broad day light
Huwan dela Serna
It was decided by
the group
The road to greatness
Stay as is
Spell as written
Run in copy
Unfinished story
There is more to Roxas
City than meets the
eye, for amidst its
cultural grandeur lies its
cultural treasures
There is more to Roxas
City than meets the eye,
for amidst its cultural
grandeur lies its cultural
treasures
There is more to Roxas
City than meets the
eye, for amidst its
cultural grandeur lies its
cultural treasures
There is more to Roxas
City than meets the
eye, for amidst its
cultural grandeur lies its
cultural treasures
Move text to the right
Move text to the left
Align text at the right
Align text at the left
Elementary Algebra the
book he is using
Insert a comma
margin
TO INSERT PUNCTUATIONS
end.
end.
end marks
margin
period
parentheses
exclamatory point
colon
hyphen
comma
semicolon
dash
opening quote
closing quote
question mark
apostrophe
UNIT HEADLINES FOR HEADLINING
UNIT
VALUES
.5
1.5
Letters
jiltf
Most lower case
letters
m,w
Most CAPITAL
letters
M
W
Numerals
Punctuation
1
Most marks of
punctuation
Most numerals
Question mark
Double quotes
parentheses
Spaces
Spaces between
words
dash
Copyreading and Headline Writing Exercise
Use the appropriate symbols in the following news sentences and write a headline on the space provided below
using the head schedule given.
______________________________________________________
TheDepartment of public works highways dpwh in partnership with FIRST PACIFIC LEADERSHIP Academy, Inc is
looking for yong civilengineers who want to joinjk department.
The DPfWH Cadet Engineer program is aa work
place learning and deveopment prodsgram tahat aim to
bring todsgether young civil ensgineers prepare them for becoming comppetent mem bers of the DPWH?
Through the programyoung engineers will be ivntroduce to the workings of the agency agency by them imersing in
its operations
The program also aims to fdevelop the engineers functionalandbehavioral
competences through diverse learning methodlogies, and instill in them a strodng sense of humor personal
integrity and vice ganda to face intfensive medical upervision desire to contribute to nationbuilding throUGh service
public.
Aplicants should ha a degree in Civil Engineering, with good grades, and an above average rating in the CIVIL
ENGINEEwaRING board exams
Theyshouldalso havfe strong leadedjrship skills dedication two publisc service.
Applicants must be willing to work in Manila. The second C*adet Engineer Program will open 40 full-time positions.
Interested aplicants mst sunwbmit their resme or curriculum vitea with phto, trannscript of recrods withthe
genedral weighted average gwa, and PROFESSIONAL REGULATION COMMISSION (prc) boardresults to
[email protected].
