Return to resources page.COMM 313, Editorial Processes
Instructor: Ross Collins, North Dakota State University, Fargo
Class resources
Begin with the video! You know editing is important. But is it dramatic?
PowerPoint Presentations:
Readings
Introduction:
- Reading One: Editors and how they work.
- Reading Two: Why editing is important.
- Reading Three: A view of reality.
- Reading Four: An editor's constraints.
Copy editing:
- Reading five: Editing nuts 'n bolts.
- Reading Six: Proofreading, AP Style, grammar.
- Reading Seven: Word clutter.
- Reading Eight: Using quotations.
- Reading Nine: Not using clichés.
- Reading 10: Leads, active voice.
- Reading 11: Writing concisely.
- Reading 12: The big picture: what is a fact?
- Reading 13: Editing for the web.
Headlines:
- Reading 14: Writing headlines and headings.
Sample Headline Schedule ("hed sked").
Design and makeup:
- Reading 15: Typography.
- Reading 16: Handling photos and illustrations.
- Reading 17: Dummy sheets and copy control.
- Reading 18: Basic guide to InDesign software for editors.
Other features
10 Common Typographic pitfalls
Includes keystroke combinations for quote, dash, and other substitutions.
Summer session final exam review.
Regular session final exam review.
Need a pagination demo by video podcast? Check out Ross's InDesign videos. Choose from the five-minute tutorials (Flash-based) below.
How they used to look: famous mass media, 1674-1974.
Exercises:
Sum-up exercise.
Editing for the web exercise.
Copy control exercise two.
InDesign exercise: Tom Peters.
InDesign exercise: travel tab.
InDesign exercise: fishing newsletter.
InDesign exercise: student broadsheet.