KRISTINE GAYLE GARCIA

IV GALILEO
COPYREADING
WHAT IS COPYREADING?
Copy reading is a method of correcting, editing, and revising the statements made by a
reporter and typed by a typesetter which will be put in a newspaper.
WHAT DOES A COPYREADER NEED?
A dictionary
A heavy black or blue pencil
WHAT DOES A COPYREADER DO?
According to the book Advanced Campus Journalism written by Ceciliano-Jose Cruz, a
copyreader:
Corrects grammar
The copyreader should be good at English and should have keen eyes to spot
errors on what he is editing.
Checks spelling
The copyreader should always have the company of a dictionary whenever he is
editing. The dictionary provides the correct spelling of the word.
Corrects punctuations

The copyreader should be able to spot wrong punctuation marks in what he is
editing.

Deletes opinions

The copyreader should delete unnecessary opinions for news story is different
from an editorial. The news story should always be unprejudiced so there should
be no part in it that has an opinion. Opinions should only be found in an editorial.

Deletes libelous and rebellious acts

The copyreader should always remove libelous and rebellious statements for it is
punishable by the law. These statements can be considered as an act against the
government.

Correcting errors in fact
The copyreader should always read what he is editing to know if the statements
written are factual and not from someones personal opinion only.

Copyreading Symbols
Sign Meaning Example Please change as follows

Delete

to err is human

Insert

to err is human

Words change

to err is human

Word replacement

to err is human

Back before
calibration

to err is human

No abbreviation

third floor

Accepted
abbreviations

3rd Flr

Sign Meaning Example Please change as follows

Insert Space

to err is human

Remove Space

to err is human

Insert line space

xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx

Remove line space

xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx

Left-justified
alignment

abcdefghijklmnop

Right-justified
alignment

abcdefghijklmnop

Centering

Abcdefghijklmnop

Change paragraph

Xxxxx.
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Paragraph need
not change

Xxxxx. Xxxxxx
xxxxxxxx.

Sign Meaning Example Please change as follows

Italic

abcdef

Bold typeface

abcdef

Convert to
uppercase

Abcdef

Convert to lower
case

abcdef

Single-byte
characters

ABCDEF

Roman Body

abcdef

Font error

abcdefghijklmn

Subscript

H
2
O

Superscript

3
3
= 27

Sign Meaning Example Please change as follows

Period

To err is human, to
forgive devine.

Comma

To err is human, to
forgive devine.

Colon

Hamlet: To be or not
to be...

Semicolon

I got a cat; her name
is Luca.

Question mark

Is it human to err?

Exclamation point

Wow!

Hyphen

Nobody is error-free.

Apostrophe

Abc's

Quote

"Superman" sighted

En dash
(Use Alt +0150 to
enter en dash).

pages 1020

Em dash
(Use Alt +0151 to
enter em dash).

To errwell, it's only
human.

Slash

6 cells/meter

Parentheses

to err (make a mistake)
is human

Square brackets

to err [make a mistake]
is human





Activity #1
Copyread the following sentence by using the correct copyreading symbols.

1. They call her Sibuyas Queen for she smells like one.
2. Give me 2 bananas from the pantry.
3. SenatorMiriamDefensor-Santiago was very aggressive during the Senate meeting.
4. The rumors about Iwa Moto having a grudge against Jodi Sta. Maria were not untrue.
5. The coach of the lADy SpIkERs was very proud of the team for winning the gold
medal on the UAAP Volleyball tournament.

Activiy #2
Copyread the following paragraphs by using the correct copyreading symbols.

1. My hEArt went out to Alex. What experiences had he endured that caused him to come
to point in his life? I knew of one one way to get soem immediate help for Albert.

I asked him if I could pray with him and he immediately agreed. He was wearing
thosewoodengloves one of which he immediately took one off so e could clasp his hand with
mine. That really affecte me, as thi action indicated to me that he really wanted the touch of
another human hand. I wondered how long it ahd been since he had felt any kind of human
contact.

2. A man suddenly approached me and said in slurred words, can you give me 50
centavos to catch the bus? He was gaunt and annd haggard.
The rancid stench of the alcohol fought me. He was obvusly ander the influence, but I
asked anyway. Have you been dringking? Unabele to understand his reply I asked him if he had
a home.
I asked the man his name and he said, Alex
I said, Alex, do you have a family? He said me his wife had died. I asked him if he any
children but his response was uncomprehensible.
Activity #3
Copy read the editorial given below.
1)
20 years ago, Ms. Mccarthy was a nuse in an intensive care unit in the Long
Island suburbs when her life was shattered by a gunman who rampaged aboard an
evening commuter train and murdered her husband, Dennis, and five other passengers.
Her twentysix-year-old son, Kevin, was left severely wounded in the attack. Groping for
stability, Ms. McCarthy decided to leave nursing and run for Congress Congress on the
strength of what she called an irresistible passion to reduce gun violence.
That passion has been severely tested. The issue of gun safety waxed briefly, then
waned depressingly cross the years as the gun lobby tightened its grip on capitol hill. And
always, newly grieving families kept showing up at her washington Office. The hardest
thing was meeting the parents, said Ms. McCarthy. I was bically the only person that
kept talking about gun violence over all those years. Eventualy, the newspapers and TV
would call me up and ask, What are you going to do about it?
This grim routine was broken up by her immersion in other important issues like
education and financial regulation. Her office displays 8 of her enacted bills on issues
like retirees rights and childhood hunger signed by three presidents. But the flow of
victimized families remained steady as they sought someone in Washington who could
truly empathize, and not slip timrously past the gun issue with press releases of
condolence.
2)
ope Francis has been meeting this week with eight cardinals he selected to shape
proposals for reforming the Roman catholic Church. It is too early to tell what will result
from an agenda that will range,, from Vatican finances to the recruitment of new
believers. But the deliberations surely cannot afford to overlook the shocking price tag
announced as a final figure that the Los Angeles Archcese paid to victims of child sexual
abuse by priests.
A 10 yrs of litigation, shameful denial and fierce resistance to civil authority has
cost the archdiocese more than $740 million in monetary damages, with the spiritual toll
far from tallied. Church lawyers said this was an end to litigation that saw more than 500
victims receive compensation compensation, with the archdiocese taking out costly loans,
selling property and even tapping into cemnetery perpetual care funds to pay for it. In the
process, the archdiocese was forced by the courts to release secret records that confirmed
systematic cover-ups of priests crimes.
Cardinal Roger Mahony, who led the archdiocese during the scandal years,
reportedly is not expected to face criminal charges, despite records showing that he
shielded abusers and ordered that evidence be withheld from criminal investigators. He
retired in 2011 to his childhood parish in California and was ultimately rebuked by his
successor, but that hardly brought an end to the problem, which batican reformers can
duck.