Thursday, March 12, 2009

Copy edit the World #3 (extra)


This is from my Cases in Communications book by Zelezny.
The sentence reads: Respondent publishes American Opinion, a monthly outlet for the views of the John Birth Society.
This is a GFE: It should be "the John Birch Society"


Didn't get to take a picture of it, but in the "One and Done for SJSU" sports article in the Wednesday March 11th, 2009 issue of the Spartan Daily there was a GFE!
Under the picture it named "Chastity Shavers" but in the scoring chart it read: "C. Shaver"
So, I am not sure which one is wrong, but one of them is!




This is from one of my sister's high school text books. I can get the name of it if you would like me to, but she's in school right now and isn't texting me back.
The sentence, show in two consistent pictures, is: Your purpose to kill me.
That isn't a complete sentence. It should say: Your purpose is to kill me.


It says " ... student that is majoring in broadcast journalism who shown ... "
It should say " ... who has shown ... "


My next three corrections come from this book.


IEE should be IIE for the Institute of International Education.



From Edward R. Murrow..., there should be commas before and after the word "officially" and it should read: Although, officially, its assistant director ...


This is also from Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards. It should be written as: Alger Hiss'



Hapiness should read: Happiness. Plus, I have no idea why all those words are capitalized. I found this in a newspaper back home in Pittsburg. It was probably the Contra Costa Times classifieds.

2 comments:

  1. Wow! You've been busy! You've got your 25 points of Copy Edit the World, and maxed out on extra credit (15 points) for this assignment.

    Just one more thing. It should read: "...the Wednesday, March 11, 2009, issue of the Spartan Daily..."

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