It will be difficult to understand copy editing and newspaper design if you do not read newspapers. To teach you the skills of copy editing, headline writing and page design. To teach you to use computer terminals for editing. To polish and expand your knowledge of style and grammar. However, we shall also study such additional areas as newspaper page design, newspaper production, picture editing, style, grammar and the ethics of editing.
Few journalists spend all of their working careers as reporters and writers.
Most seek editing jobs as a means of advancement within the craft. The skills you learn in this course will provide the foundation for your future career as an editor. In the meantime, you will find that studying the art of editing helps to improve your skills as a writer. Critical review of the writing of others tends to help you learn to avoid mistakes in your own writing. I hope some of you will consider copy editing as a career.