Editing

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Quick Hits for Editing

These focused, short exercises can be used daily or weekly to improve students’ editing skills – in their own work and the work of others.

Deconstructing News Features

In this lesson, students learn how to deconstruct a story and analyze how it’s put together.

AP Style Introduction

In this lesson, students are given an introduction to AP style.

Fact checking 1

These tips will help students practice using methods newsroom pros use, too, and apply them to their own student media.

Editing to avoid slanted language

This lesson helps students learn to edit for word choice, avoiding slanted, biased or loaded language that can sway the audience’s view of a person or situation.

Editing cutlines and captions

Students will learn to edit and revise cutlines, also called captions, for style, length and accuracy.

Choosing engaging verbs

This lesson encourages students to choose active, accurate and engaging verbs that help the reader experience the action.

Fact checking 2

We’ll use the same tips we used on the first fact-checking lesson and apply them to an article that has already been published.

Condensing for space

In this lesson, students bring completed feature or longer news stories to class. These may be drafts or final work. Students will be asked to cut the stories to fit a smaller space.

Editing for word choice

In this lesson, students bring second drafts to class for close-editing on word choice.

Active and passive voice

A lesson explaining the difference between active and passive voice and how to change from one to the other.

Revision

Coaching writers

Why style matters

Students have been provided a newspaper story that they will edit for AP style, accuracy, attribution, correct paragraphing, grammar, spelling and redundancy.

Copy editing tools

This straight-forward lesson exposes students to copy editing symbols, allows them to put the symbols to use and then assesses their understanding of those symbols.

Collaborate and coach writers

In this lesson on the writing process, students will learn how to act as coaches during the writing process.

Deep revision

“Deep revision” is when authors expand or collapse paragraphs; narrow or change the focus, angle, or approach a piece.

Edit for style

Students will search common AP style usage examples in everyday media sources and discuss how they are used appropriately … or not!

Line editing

In this lesson on line editing, students bring first drafts to class for feedback from peers.

Feature writing workshop

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