Reflection SY24
As a copy staffer, I am the last person to edit every piece in the newspaper. In this article, my edits are the gray and green edit marks. When I edit, most of the mistakes I notice have to do with punctuation and spelling errors. However, to edit this piece, I corrected a lot of the wording to consistently be in past tense and active voice. Also, I modified some of the wording to use better, more precise words.
Reflection SY25
When I edit, I go line by line to make sure I catch all mistakes. To become an efficient editor, I took many online copy editing and proofreading courses as well as read and annotated a lot of the AP Stylebook. In addition, I put together a list of guidelines specific to my publication’s style, which I tend to have pulled up when I’m editing. Also, I make many copy presentations to show to the staff in hopes that other editors will catch mistakes before drafts come to me so that I can focus on edits that I might have missed amidst many frivolous mistakes.
Reflection
April 17, 2025
As an editor this year, I had three staffers whose edits and critiques I would look over as they edited articles. This allowed me to analyze the mistakes that my staffers are catching and the ones that they are not. This editing strategy is important to me because it helped me come up with ideas for future presentations and lessons for my staffers and the staff as a whole. All in all, this editing approach allowed me to see the more obvious mistakes that my staffers caught in order to go more in-depth with my edits. In this example, my staffer made edits to an article about beaches that I then looked over after her.