Thursday, March 5, 2009

Contest tips - COPY EDITING

TIPA Rules
COPY EDITING
Deadline is one hour.

Contestants will edit three stories. Copy will be double-spaced. Contestants must bring a No. 2 pencil with which to edit. Contestants will use standard copy editing symbols and use Associated Press Style guidelines. Stylebooks, a thesaurus and a dictionary may be used. Each piece of copy will have some errors added. Points will be subtracted for errors that are not corrected.

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