COPYREADING

AND HEADLINE
WRITING
Prepared By:
Mrs. Brenda D. Adriano

COPYREADING
is just another
word for
EDITING.

COPYREADER
An editor.
A specialist who
improves the story
and makes it worthy
of having a space in
the newspaper

COPYREADERS JOB
The article must be factually accurate .
The article must be grammatically correct
The newspaper style should be followed.
The article must be free from libelous statement.

The story needs an effective style and headline.

QUALITIES OF A GOOD
COPYREADER
Be good in English.
Know his Style book.
Have a Master copy of Copyreading symbols.

Know the papers policy

Be observant
Have the following tools always ready for use:
Papers style book.dictionary, printers type catalogue

STEPS IN COPYREADING

Initial
each Copy
read.

Get an
Overview
of the
story.

Verify
the
accuracy
Correct the of facts
grammar, and
deterpunctuamine
tion and
whether
the story
spelling
contains
all
essential
information
.

COPYREADING SIGNS

for change. The new

that purpose. C It can
Paragraph Sign

PERIOD
Mr
D

SPELL OUT

Feb.

CHANGE TO FIGURES

Thirty-four

ABBREVIATE

November

company
CAPITALIZE

Tom orrow

CLOSE UP

Principal
> CHANGE TO SMALL
LETTER

Everyday
SEPARATE WORDS
Written well
TRANSPOSE
new
The^student
INSERT WORD

PRINTERS DIRECTION
The direction should include the size(in
points), type of letter(Arial, Times New
Roman, bold etc.), length of the
lines(in ems)

Ex. 10pts.Roman Light, 24 ems

HEADLINES

TIPS TO HEADLINERS

CLUES TO THE HEADLINE ARE

USUALLY IN THE LEAD.

What happened?
Who did that?
How did it happen?

USE BRIEF, CLIPPED LANGUAGE.

USE SHORTEST WORD POSSIBLE

PH backs up plan designed

to hike world sugar prices

USE COLORFUL NOUNS,

VIGOROUS ACTIVE VERB.
Curbs on govt borrowing
urged
Revenue bureau to purge misfits
Cebu grape industry perks up

HAVE A SUBJECT AND A VERB.

Avoid starting with a verb, the
headline might sound as if it were
giving order.
NOT: Revise money mart guidelines
BUT: CB revises money mart guidelines

OMIT ARTICLES(A, AN, THE)

Disabled athlete reaps medals

Lowly goat gets rural uplift

USE COMMA INSTEAD OF AND

Delays, confusion bug

Asiad
Offerings, programs
cap Villamor Day

USE SINGLE QUOTES IN

HEADLINES
Basketball team brings home
the bacon
Techno club for dedicated,
task oriented students- Pastor

OMIT FORMS OF TO BE ESPECIALLY

WHEN USED AS A CLIPPING VERB.

NOT: Sanchez to be editor

MUST: Sanchez chosen

editor

USE HISTORICAL PRESENT FOR

FINISHED EVENTS, THE INFINITIVE TO
INDICATE FUTURE EVENTS

VHS garden cops first place

New Aldana building

to be completed soon

AVOID SPLITTING WORDS

THAT NATURALLY GO TOGETHER.
WRONG:
VHS observes Linggo
ng Wika with tilts
RIGHT:
VHS holds Linggo ng Wika with tilts

USE DOWN STYLE ONLY THE FIRST WORD

AND PROPER NOUNS ARE CAPITALIZED .

1,774 seniors
to take NCAE

Faculty honors PNoy

DONT LEAVE PREPOSITION

AT THE END OF THE LINE.
WRONG:
Mentors call for
reform of schools
RIGHT:

Mentors call
for reform
of schools

USE ONLY WIDE KNOWN

ABBREVIATION.

Be positive.
Dont use negatives
in the headlines

HEADLINE TECHNIQUE

Headlining

A really good headline

reveals the content tells
what it's all about by giving a
summary of the summary.

 It

will help us to decide if

the article is interesting or
not.

 If

the headline is
interesting, readers
continue to read the
actual summary, the
ingress.

ORDER OF INTEREST!

- is the

key to Headlining

start from your audience's

perspective and not your own.
-

SAMPLE HEADLINES

AFP lauds soldiers in 'Pablo' rescue

The military on Thursday lauded the soldiers

who died while evacuating residents in typhoon-hit
areas of Compostela Valley and vowed to provide
assistance to the families they left behind.
The AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines)
salutes our soldiers who died while performing
their duties as typhoon Pablo hit Mindanao, AFP
spokesman Col. Arnulfo Burgos Jr. said.

PAMPANGA SENDING 500

COFFINS TO MINDANAO
MANILA, Philippines - At least 500 coffins
from Pampanga will arrive in Mindanao and
will be distributed to areas where there are
a high number of recorded fatalities.

238 PATAY KAY 'PABLO'

MANILA, Philippines - Lumobo na sa 238
katao ang kumpirmadong namatay dahil sa
pananalasa ng bagyong "Pablo" sa Visayas at
Mindanao nitong Martes.
Sa ulat ng Eastern Mindanao Command
(Eastmincom) ng Armed Forces of the
Philippines, may 143 katao na ang
kumpirmadong nasawi sa mga pagbaha at
landslide sa mga bayan ng Monkayo, New
Bataan, Compostela, Montevista, Nabunturan
at Pantukan sa probinsya ng Compostela Valley.

COUNTING THE UNITS IN HEADLINE

UNITS EQUIVALENTS AND PUNCTUATION
MARKS

1. All lowercase letters except f, l, i t, j, and m,

w, = 1 unit
2. Lower case m and w = 1 or 1.5 unit
3. All capitals except M ,W ,L = 1.5 unit
4. Capitals M, W = 2 units each
5. Capitals J, I, 1 = 1 unit
6. All punctuation marks, except the dash and
question mark = or .5 unit
7. Hyphen and question mark= 1 unit
8. All spaces between words= to 1 units each
9. All numbers = 1.5 units
10. Dash = 2 units

LETS COPYREAD
the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday Vice President Jejomar Binay
will go to
China on a mercy mission to try to save a Filipino drug trafficker on death row.
binay went on a similar mission in February to China to save three Filipino
drug moles
from the death row, and secured a temporary stay of execution.
But Beijing went ahead with the executions a month later, triggering wide
spread condemnation in the Catholic Philippines where capital punishment was
abolish
in 2006.
Those executions put the spotlight on the countrys millions
of Filipino overseas workers, some of whom are duped into doing illegal
activities in
exchange for extra cash to send to their families back home.
Binay will convey a request from President Benigno Aquino to spare the life of
the 35year-old man, who is set to be executed next week, Foreign Affairs spokesman
Raul
Hernandez said.

Inspirational

END OF
PRESENTATION

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