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Online Editing Drill: Polish Your Skills Together!

Engage in an online editing drill with a partner to enhance your editing abilities. Learn to interpret various editing symbols and make corrections effectively. Practice inserting, deleting, punctuating, and formatting text.

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Online Editing Drill: Polish Your Skills Together!

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  1. Editing—Try ITYou’ll Like IT! An online editing drill. Try to answer the questions with a partner.

  2. What does this symbol mean?

  3. Delete Way to go!

  4. What does this symbol mean?

  5. To Insert an r

  6. And what does this symbol tell you to do?

  7. Good! To close up

  8. What does the editor want you to do here?

  9. Correct! Add a space

  10. What does this mean?

  11. Way to go! Insert a period

  12. This symbol means what?

  13. You’ve got it! Add a comma

  14. This symbol means to

  15. Cool! Add an apostrophe

  16. And now, try this one?

  17. This symbol indicates that you need to add a colon.

  18. In this sentence what does the copyeditor want you to correct?

  19. Yes! Add a semicolon

  20. What do these “eyes” mean?

  21. Insert quotations

  22. The symbol above means to…

  23. You are sooo smart! Add parenthesis

  24. What does the Z mean?

  25. It means… To add a new line.

  26. And this snake-like line means…

  27. To Run together!

  28. STET – What does it mean?

  29. STET means to leave as is. The copy editor changed his/her mind after making an editing mark!

  30. This is an example of

  31. Transposing The letters are reversed.

  32. This means to

  33. Of Course… Spell out

  34. These marks mean

  35. To change letters to CAPITAL LETTERS

  36. This symbol means to

  37. Align sentences

  38. What is wrong with this sentence? The ball was caught by the boy who was nearby under the bridge.

  39. It’s AWKWARD Was the boy or the ball under the bridge?

  40. Now, study pages pages 17 and 18 in your staff manual. We will talk about matters of style next week.

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