3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4018399FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.
[Text revision] Students apply the knowledge acquired in language and journalism courses to a number of general texts, including their own texts and those of fellow students. They learn to use the common correction marks and to use the revision function in MS Word.
[Final editing] How do you make readers willing to start reading a specific article? How do you make them eager to read it till the end? That is the daily challenge for copy editors. Because final editing is so much more than correcting language errors. In the lessons we present and practice some do's and dont's for good titles and intro's, we show how articles can be improved creatively with photo's and infographics and we pay attention to the whole page lay-out. Everything is illustrated with a lot of examples of good and especially bad practices.
Support: by appointment with lecturer
Students can
- evaluate a journalistic text
- (linguistically) correct, shorten, summarize a journalistic text
-produce headlines, bylines, intro's and captions (to go with photographs) for any journalistic article
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Practical Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
open-book exam: 50% [text revision]
evaluation of skills: 50% [final edition]
The open-book exam will be organized in a computer room. Consultation of online resources is allowed, communication with others is not.
A pass mark for a subpart can be transferred to the next examination period / academic year.
Students can only succeed for this course if they have accomplished both subparts.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Translation: 2 talen (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Journalism: Printed and Online Media (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Languages: 1 taal (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Languages: 2 talen (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)