Theory of copy preparation and editing; publication layout.
Course learning objectives:
- Review and improve personal writing skills including grammar, punctuation, word usage and sentence structure.
- Demonstrate improved proficiency in editing copy: yours and others. This will include ability to identify and correct vocabulary, spelling, grammar and punctuation errors as well as the 5 C’s of effective writing: clarity, completeness, coherence, consistency and correctness.
- Explore visual opportunities to accompany story text.
- Apply ethics skills and libel standards to news judgment decisions.
- Evaluate page and web design as it relates to readership.
- Discover fact checking techniques.
- Explore techniques and guidelines for headlines, photo captions and social media teasers.
- Demonstrate working knowledge of the AP Stylebook.
Prerequisite
JTC 210 (Newswriting)
Textbooks and Materials
Section 801
Required
- The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence, 12th Ed. (2022)
Brooks, Brian S. and Pinson, James L.
ISBN: 978-0367820138
Not available at the CSU Bookstore
Instructors
Clarissa Crozier
3035948589
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clarissa.crozier@colostate.edu
Clarissa Crozier, MA ’91, teaches news writing and copy editing. She advised high school yearbook, newspaper and video productions that earned All American, Pacemaker and Crown Awards and served as executive director for the Colorado Student Media Association. She holds an MA in administration, supervision and curriculum development from the University of Colorado-Denver and administrative licensure from the University of Northern Colorado. She was recognized with the Journalism Education Association Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Journalism Teacher of the Year and Emily Gates Achievement Award.
