Skills Development- Editing Articles

I asked my sister to write an article for me. This allowed for me, the editor, to try editing an article. The first thing I did was sort out the grammar and spelling mistakes in the article. I then sorted out any mistakes that happened either because my sister wasn't being careful or there was an error when she emailed me the word document. Another thing I did was add or took away words I did not think were needed. I also changed some of her bullet points to be more colourful, changed the format and added in pictures.

Unedited article

 The unedited section of the article was riddled in mistakes that Word picked up on. I sorted these out as suggested and made all the words the same colour and size as each other. The format of this was in columns, which I didn't want her article to be filled with, so I changed it to the normal words format.

Edited Article 

The edited section had all the mistakes corrected. I kept the words used the same my sister had written as there was no problems with it. As I said the format was changed to the usual words formatting.

Unedited Article

 The main issue that her article had was this unnatural spacing between her paragraph. There was also an issue with the first sentence, which I did not have an idea on how to edit it, so I kept it the same. The after thought of "who I call goblins" felt like it made the sentence harder to read so I put that in a bracket. I erased the "of this virus" as I believe people already know about the changes.

Edited Article

The edited version was still kept in the column format, as I believed it would make the magazine nicer to look at. (Most of the other articles are in the word format) The bullet point was changed to a more creative one, to add more colour onto the page. The gap is gone, which makes the paragraph make more sense when someone reads it.

Unedited Article

The unedited Article had some mistakes that I corrected. I disliked the "1" and "3" as they were numbers instead of words, so I changed that to their word form.  I also saw an opportunity to cut this in half and add in pictures that related to what she was talking about in the article.

Edited Article

The edited versions had the appropriate changes I hoped to make. The pictures I added are from a Facebook Messenger phone call I had with my sister, and I think they may make someone laugh whilst reading the article. I also added pictures of her room  cleaned after the paragraph with her mentioning it being cleaned. The edited version has a bracket with "Which I did", which I added to show everyone that my sister had kept it clean and also to keep the article in the past tense.

Edited Article

Editing this article proved fun, and there was not much challenge with it. I believe if I had more skill with editing articles, I would have improved it more than a few grammar and spelling mistakes and added pictures.

Read the edited article here: https://holliebraithwaitel4creativeenterprise.blogspot.com/2020/05/first-magazine-issue.html