Copy editors aren’t just proofers

In a recent blog post, I mentioned that students in one of my editing classes are producing a new community newspaper, The Stand. They are collaborating with reporters in another class to conceptualize and create the content, and they are responsible for the layout. Students in one of my other classes are proofing the pages. [...]

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