{"id":216,"date":"2016-01-18T18:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:17:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:17:30","slug":"grammar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Resources for fact checking, grammar, AP style\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1a\/News_room_of_the_New_York_Times02106v.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"257\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York Times copy desk, 1942. (Library of Congress)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journalistsresource.org\/tip-sheets\/style\/copyediting-for-reporters\">Copy Editing for Reporters<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; Shorenstein Center\u00a0 &#8212; Read this to get a general sense of what copy editors should do.\u00a0 It includes advice about fact checking, spelling and grammar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsu.org\/courses\/cleaning-your-copy-grammar-style-more\">Cleaning your copy<\/a> &#8212; Poynter NewsU course in copy editing\u00a0 &#8212; Register for this free course and take the first three tests in class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andromeda.rutgers.edu\/~jlynch\/Writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guide to Grammar and Style<\/a>\u00a0(Jack Lynch, Rutgers University)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guide to Grammar &amp; Writing<\/a>\u00a0(Capital Community College)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/camd.northeastern.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Associated-Press-Style-Essentials-1.pdf\">AP Style essentials &#8211;<\/a>&#8211; (Northeastern University) &#8212; This is an overview of the most important points in AP Style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/141\/index.html\">Elements of Style<\/a>, William Strunk Jr. &#8212; A classic text on general writing style issues, now available online<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/tips-and-tools\/style\/\">Writing in Style,<\/a> UNC writing center<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writing.wisc.edu\/Handbook\/ClearConciseSentences.html\">Clear, concise, direct sentences<\/a>, U. Wisconsin Writing Center<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources for fact checking, grammar, AP style\u00a0 Copy Editing for Reporters\u00a0 &#8211; Shorenstein Center\u00a0 &#8212; Read this to get a general sense of what copy editors should do.\u00a0 It includes advice about fact checking, spelling and grammar. Cleaning your copy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/grammar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}