Purpose
Chapter 5 focuses on providing an overviews the most useful reference materials for fact-checking. The methods for fact-checking provided are mainly for aspiring copy editors who need to be able to quickly verify things such as the example in the text "Was Canada's first prime minister a Macdonald or a MacDonald?" (96).
Structure
The structure of the text in the chapter is pretty much the exact same throughout. The chapter consists of minimal diagrams and is really not much more but standard bullet points and blocks of text. The language used is pretty straightforward and mundane, usually standard in textbooks.
Power
The text is completely un-biased and fairly un-charged, it does show a tendency towards copy editing as being of great importance in the newsroom, it also provides evidence to back up this claim demonstrating what copy editors have to do in their day to day.
Gaps
This text is not really intended for those who wouldn't have a use for copy editing; however, for those in need of such skills it covers a bunch of ways to fact-check in short notice.
This first sentance should be altered to:
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ReplyDeleteParagraph 1:first sentence kind of doesn't make sense, should probobly read: "Chapter 5 focuses on providing an overview of the most useful reference materials for fact-checking."
Paragraph 2: The last two sentences both have some errors. The second last uses the word 'but' in the sentence when the word 'than' would have sufficed. In the last sentence, there is an awkward comma splice seperating the words mundane and usually, and a conjunction should have been thrown in.
Paragraph 3: There is more comma splices in the first and only sentence of the third paragraph. The words 'however' and 'and' should have been used respectively.
Paragraph 4: There is a double negative in the sentence/paragraph here, so it kind of makes for some confusion. 'Not really intended for those who wouldn't?' This sentence is otherwise fine, however.
I'll begin by correcting any errors I find, and then I'll go into what I liked about the piece.
ReplyDeleteTo start, the number 5 is posted as a number when CP states that any number up from one to nine should be written in full. In the same sentence you say that "Chapter 5 focuses on providing an overviews the most useful reference materials for fact-checking." There are a couple errors in this sentence causing it to really make no sense at all. I think you meant to say "Chapter 5 focuses on providing an overview of the most useful reference materials for fact-checking."
In the second paragraph I would lose the word "exact," in the second sentence.
The third paragraph is one big run on sentence so I would try and break it up a bit.
Good work overall. I think we're on the same page with a lot of what was said about this chapter.