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This document discusses the role and responsibilities of a copy editor. It explains that copy editing involves correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation and ensuring the text is clear and understandable for readers. The copy editor takes responsibility for the author's errors and prevents embarrassing mistakes from being published. The goal of the research is to educate students about the copy editing process and help them understand the differences between a copy editor and proofreader. Identifying factors that make someone an effective copy editor could benefit students and provide job opportunities.

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Rationale Copy Re

This document discusses the role and responsibilities of a copy editor. It explains that copy editing involves correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation and ensuring the text is clear and understandable for readers. The copy editor takes responsibility for the author's errors and prevents embarrassing mistakes from being published. The goal of the research is to educate students about the copy editing process and help them understand the differences between a copy editor and proofreader. Identifying factors that make someone an effective copy editor could benefit students and provide job opportunities.

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Rationale

“Copy Reading is about being original and connecting to the audience by

speaking to one person” (thevoiceoverguide.com), meaning being fluent in this job is a

must to become an effective Copy Editor.

Copy editing is a tough job, wherein the editor’s hands, eyes, and brain should

always cooperate perfectly. It is the process of correcting misspelled words, the

appropriate usage of numbers, symbols and punctuation marks, proper order of

sentences and paragraph and most especially checking the grammar if it is used

properly.

Those persons, who are under this job, are highly paid for their credibility and

capability as an editor. Being the editor needs enough knowledge about copy editing as

well as being aware of the grammar and of the exact words that expresses the idea of

the author. Aside from that the editor is liable for any mistake that has done by the

author upon the text which is being published. The editor is also the one who prevents

the embarrassing errors of fact, alerts the publisher to any possible legal problems and

ensures that the typesetter can do a good job. (Sfep “Society for Editors and

Proofreaders).

A Copy Editor helps the authors to ensure that their prose is clear, compelling

and correct. They are also the people who make sure that the words written in a specific

paper, articles or books can be easily understand by the readers. Editors are hired to

improve the flow and overall writing of a story or text.


This educational study aims to arouse the interest of each individual to become fully

aware of copy editing and how it is being conducted before printing a certain text. The

process of copy editing is hardly tested to justify the ideas being presented by the

author. The Copy Editor took the full responsibility of correcting the errors of the author.

The researchers believe that identifying possible factors on how to copy edit will

be a big help to become an effective Copy Editor.

This research is to comply for one of the requirements in the course, EdSeng 11

“Translation and Editing of Text” for 3 rd year Education major in English Students. The

researches made this so that everyone who might be reading this could have an insight

how does a Copy Reader works and how it is different from a Proof Reader which is

often interchange and misinterpret, and how being a Copy Editor could help them with

their studies but also with their daily lives. But most important this paper is, to give

accurate, specific and liable information regarding the symbols of copy reading and a

few techniques that can be used by the next batch of students; this research study aims

to make the next students life easier.

Providing enough information and training about the focus of this educational

research will serve as a tool for those individual more specifically students to improve

themselves as a copy editor which will give them an opportunity for a job which is

considered to be a highly paid one.

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