Lead Faculty: Dr. Sara-Ellen L. Amster
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to copyediting and includes the roles and responsibilities of a copy editor on a daily newspaper, which go beyond being able to spot grammatical and spelling errors in copy. In this course, students learn how a copy editor approaches a news story and how to edit that story for clarity, sense and organization, as well as for spelling, grammar and style, and fairness. Students will edit copy and write headlines and cutlines, as well as learn the basics of layout and design.