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LECTURE Basic Copyreading and Headline Writing Principles

This document provides a list of copyreading symbols and their meanings to edit documents. The symbols convey actions like capitalizing, deleting, transposing, and justifying text. They also include punctuation edits and inserting or deleting words, letters, commas and spaces. The bottom sections outline principles for multi-line headlines and point sizes and a schedule for headlines.

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LECTURE Basic Copyreading and Headline Writing Principles

This document provides a list of copyreading symbols and their meanings to edit documents. The symbols convey actions like capitalizing, deleting, transposing, and justifying text. They also include punctuation edits and inserting or deleting words, letters, commas and spaces. The bottom sections outline principles for multi-line headlines and point sizes and a schedule for headlines.

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Copyreading Symbols

SYMBOLS MEANING
SYMBOLS MEANING
lipa city Set in capital
Atty.Reyes Put a period in an
abbreviation

LiPa City Set in lower case


v‘ stone
sorcerers Insert apostrophe

Professor Umbridge Abbreviate


Goblet of fier Transpose letters

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Sec. Gina Lopez Spell out
wand magic Transpose words

twenty six points for Set in numeral _


brooomstick Delete letter and space
Slytherin _
p
Hogwarts Exfress Change letter
three brothers Set in words
^

under the __
the cupboard Delete word and close
Daily Pro phet Delete space up

4 Privet Drive Little, Insert comma ]Four score and seven Indent
Whinging Surrey ^ years ago, our fathers…
^,

goldensnitch Separate/ Insert space L


with Hagrid. Meanwhile, New paragraph
the teenage hormones run
rampant through…

,”said Snape x Put a period at the end


of the sentence A new teacher helps Run in

Harry learn to defend.


SYMBOLS MEANING

It’s the seventh and final Kill or delete


novel.

cloak
the boat of invisibility Change word

by
…book written British Insert word
author J. K. Rowling

Harry, Ron and Hermione


faced new challenges Justify the text
during their second year
at Hogwarts.

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Harry, Ron and Hermione Move up the paragraph
faced new challenges
during their second year
at Hogwarts.

Unit Counts
Capital letters Punctuation marks
M, W – 2 units dash (–) – 1 ½ units
JLIFT – 1 unit question mark (?) – 1 unit
Others – 1 ½ units others - ½ unit

Small letters Number digits


m, w – 1 ½ units 0 to 9 – 1 unit
jlift – ½ unit
others – 1unit Space – 1 unit
Headline Principle
1- column head 3 or 4 lines
2- column head 2 or 3 lines
3- column head 1 or 2 lines
4- to 6- column head 1 line

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Point Sizes
Headline Schedule

AcceleWrite | Campus Journalism Summit 2017 | LICASPA | brmp26

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