Return to resources page.COMM 313, Editorial Processes
Class resources
Begin with the video: You know editing is important. But is it dramatic?
Readings
Introduction:
- Reading One: Editors and how they work.
- Reading Two: Why editing is important.
- Reading Three: A view of reality.
- Reading Four: An editor's constraints.
Copy editing:
- Reading five: Editing nuts 'n bolts.
- Reading Six: Proofreading, AP Style, grammar.
- Reading Seven: Word clutter.
- Reading Eight: Using quotations.
- Reading Nine: Not using clichés.
- Reading 10: Leads, active voice.
- Reading 11: Writing concisely.
- Reading 12: The big picture: what is a fact?
- Reading 13: Editing for the web.
Headlines:
- Reading 14: Writing headlines.
Sample Headline Schedule ("hed sked").
Design and makeup:
- Reading 15: Typography.
- Reading 16: Handling photos and illustrations.
- Reading 17: Dummy sheets and copy control.
- Reading 18: Basic guide to InDesign software for editors.
Other features
10 Common Typographic pitfalls
Includes keystroke combinations for quote, dash, and other substitutions.
Summer session final exam review.
Regular session final exam review.
How they used to look: famous mass media, 1674-1974.
Exercises:
Sum-up exercise.
Editing for the web exercise.
Copy control exercise two.
Copy control exercise for 5 pts extra credit 2009.
InDesign exercise: Tom Peters.
InDesign exercise: travel tab.
InDesign exercise: fishing newsletter.
InDesign exercise: student broadsheet.