MCM 3312 - Copy Editing

Credits: 3 hrs

This is course focuses on related skills including: grammar and vocabulary; AP news style; effective story organization; locating and eliminating wordiness, redundancies and holes; accuracy; fact-checking. Instruction includes headline writing, caption/cutline writing, and all useful elements a media practitioner needs to be aware of. Course also provides introduction to newspaper design (InDesign labs). Prerequisite(s): MCM 3340 or Instructor permission.