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REFERENCE CHART FOR COPY -EDITING SYMBOLS
I. Abbreviate or use numerals
2. Boldface
3. Capitalize
4. Center
5. Change letter
6. Change word
7. Close up space between words
8. Close up space within a word
9. Continues on next page
10. Delete letter
II. Delete phrase
12. Delete punctuation
13. End of story
14. Flush left
15. Flush right
16. Ignore correction (Correct as written)
17. Insert apostrophe
18. Insert colon
19. Insert comma
20. Insert dash
21. Insert exclamation point
22. Insert hyphen
23. Insert letter
24. Insert period
25. Insert quotation marks
26. Insert semicolon
27. Insert word
28. Italic
29. Lowercase (Do not capitalize)
30. No new paragraph
3 I. Separate words
32. Spell out numbers or words
33. Start new paragraph
34. Transpose letter
35. Transpose words
~This line should be set in boldface type.~ ~--~
An american won the nobel prize.~ .7 .
JContinued on Page 10L
Their hoPe is expen/ve.'-~~
She received ~ gifts.II.
Their car was ~ destroyed
Their children ran outs~e--
@) "" , They receive4d the m~ey.
They did not:se ~. :;;:;;e~.;;;r unnecessary words.-~- -They asked, if he was sarr;;: OR: They aske~ if he was saf):
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CThe typesetter will begin this line at the left margin.
The typesetter will begin this line at the right margin. :J
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It\ good you~re going home.
He set three goal~success, health and wealth.
The girl. 7~lives with her grandmother.,..) H
The score was 87 to 53 a disaster-..£, ~!
"What I don't believe i~' she exclaimed."' ,..
The ~e~ld girl live with her mother.
TheirAcar ~ed to ~.
John <GKefalis received the scholarshiJ:Ci~ Th ..8 h .
dIS IS ~asy, e sat.
Don't g~e needs your help.~.~r
He wrItes poetry .~ ~
Some publications set words in .italics for emphasis.
The )f'fayor failed ttlJ arrive.
To generate more publicity, the candidate announced that hew~ work at different j~~ He spent the remainder ofhis campaign picking tomatoes,
plucking chickens and driving trucks.
Journalists artfritical otolitical gimmickry .
She said~eople will go to@
C1:( Another man campaigned on roller skates.VIis wife explained: "We met at a roller skating rink, and we thought
it would be a fun idea. He's going house to house, subdivision tosubdivision on his skates, and people remember him."
Ty~s often transp~ letters.
~ccepted the award.