Post 15: Editor at work

I was able to edit a friends paper. She is a reporter for The Signpost and was assiged to cover an event. Unfortunately due to timeliness the article as not published, but I was able to edit the article with her. We met and discussed the importance of a headline, the inverted pyramid, the use of punctuation, AP style and citing sources.

She hasn't had any prior experience writing for a newspaper, but she has written for a magazine before. The style of writing is quite different the same way that writing an essay is different from writing a hard news article.

We talked about the style of writing in different formats. In order to talk to the reporter I too had to do my research in order to be informed and to inform her.

We were able to discuss different things in writing and she understood certain concepts a lot better. Though that specific article was not published her writing in the next article was a lot better.