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2. What is Consistency in Copyediting?

 means that the same text or the same type of text or
illustration is treated uniformly throughout the
document
Example:
“turn off” or “shut down” the computer.

3. 
Do the same directions mean
something different?

4. 
Example:
A group of four co-authors wrote sections of a
journal article to be combined into a one draft; in the
editing process, they noticed that they had spelled
proofreading as proofreading, proof reading and proofreading.

5. THINGS TO PONDER IN
CONSISTENCY:

 Gives useful information to readers
 Makes documents, people and companies they
represent more professional
 Helps promote the image of the company

7. A. Verbal Consistency

 refers to the meanings and arrangements of words
(semantic, syntactic, stylistic)

8. B. Visual Consistency

 refers to anything a reader can see on the page or
screen
(typography, spacing, color, icons, illustrations)

9. What is TYPOGRAPHY?

 is the typeface and typestyle which are the same for
parallel items such as level-two headings.
Example:
APA Heading Levels
(Level 2 [Left-Aligned, Bolded, Title Case])

10. C. Mechanical Consistency

 includes spelling, capitalization, hyphenation,
abbreviations, numbers, and type of styles

11. The following examples illustrate issues in
the consistency of mechanics:

 Spelling (acknowledgement –
acknowledgment, copy editing-copyediting)
 Capitalization (Web site-website, French fries-french
fries)

12. 
 Hyphenation
(long-term project; in the long term or two-meter
length; length of two meters)
 Abbreviations
(United States- US or U.S, inches- in. or “)

13. 
 Numbers
commas ( 1000 or 1,000)
Dates (8 April 2010 or April 8, 2010)
time (eight o’clock or 8 am.)

14. 
 Punctuations (Five types of consistency are verbal,
visual, mechanical, structural and content. ) or (Five
types of consistency are verbal, visual, mechanical,
structural, and content.)

15. DOCUMENTATION

 refers to styles for citing sources which differs from
discipline to discipline
Example:
APA AND MLA FORMAT

16. BASIC FORMAT FOR BOOKS (APA)

 Author, A. A. (Year of publication).
Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle.
Location: Publisher.
 Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997).
Consequences of growing up poor. New York, NY:
Russell Sage Foundation.

17. 
 Laplace, P. S. (1951). A philosophical essay on
probabilities. (F. W. Truscott & F. L. Emory, Trans.).
New York, NY: Dover. (Original work published
1814)

18. D. Structural Consistency

 refers to organization (chapters and etc.)
Example:
The introduction of each chapter in the book
ends with “key concepts”. If a report reviews four
topics and includes a table summarizing the topics, the
order of topics in the report and in the table should be
the same.

19. E. Content Consistency

 eliminates contradictory information
Example:
If the readers are told to find a reference on page
18 of a document when that reference actually appears
on page 19, they will be frustrated or may not find the
reference at all.

20. Maria Jessa Podelana
Miliane Antone
Brian Barrot