Copyediting for Consistency
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COPYEDITING FOR CONSISTENCY
means that the same text or the same type of
text or illustration is treated uniformly throughout the document
Example: “turn off” or “shut down” the computer.
What is Consistency in Copyediting?
Do the same directions mean something different?
Example:
A group of four co-authors wrote sections of a journal article to be combined into a one draft; in the editing process, they noticed that they had spelled proofreading as proofreading, proof reading and proof-reading.
Gives useful information to readers
Makes documents, people and companies they represent more professional
Helps promote the image of the company
THINGS TO PONDER IN CONSISTENCY:
FIVE TYPES OF CONSISTENCY IN
DOCUMENTS
refers to the meanings and arrangements of
words (semantic, syntactic, stylistic)
A. Verbal Consistency
refers to anything a reader can see on the
page or screen (typography, spacing, color, icons, illustrations)
B. Visual Consistency
is the typeface and typestyle which are the
same for parallel items such as level-two headings.
Example:
APA Heading Levels (Level 2 [Left-Aligned, Bolded, Title Case])
What is TYPOGRAPHY?
includes spelling, capitalization, hyphenation,
abbreviations, numbers, and type of styles
C. Mechanical Consistency
Spelling (acknowledgement – acknowledgment, copy editing-copyediting)
Capitalization (Web site-website, French fries-french fries)
The following examples illustrate issues in the consistency of mechanics:
Hyphenation (long-term project; in the long term or two-meter length; length of two meters)
Abbreviations (United States- US or U.S, inches- in. or “)
Numbers
commas ( 1000 or 1,000)Dates (8 April 2010 or April 8, 2010)time (eight o’clock or 8 am.)
Punctuations (Five types of consistency are
verbal, visual, mechanical, structural and content. ) or (Five types of consistency are verbal, visual, mechanical, structural, and content.)
refers to styles for citing sources which differs
from discipline to discipline Example: APA AND MLA FORMAT
DOCUMENTATION
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.
Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
BASIC FORMAT FOR BOOKS (APA)
Laplace, P. S. (1951). A philosophical essay on
probabilities. (F. W. Truscott & F. L. Emory, Trans.). New York, NY: Dover. (Original work published 1814)
refers to organization (chapters and etc.)
Example: The introduction of each chapter in the
book ends with “key concepts”. If a report reviews four topics and includes a table summarizing the topics, the order of topics in the report and in the table should be the same.
D. Structural Consistency
eliminates contradictory information
Example: If the readers are told to find a reference on page 18 of a document when that reference actually appears on page 19, they will be frustrated or may not find the reference at all.
E. Content Consistency
THANK YOU….
Maria Jessa Podelana Miliane Antone
Brian Barrot