The document explains the importance of consistency in copyediting, highlighting verbal, visual, mechanical, structural, and content consistency. It provides examples of consistency issues, such as spelling variations and the organization of information, which can impact professionalism and reader understanding. Additionally, it discusses the documentation styles for citing sources, with examples for APA and MLA formats.

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