The document provides guidance for a web editing assignment, highlighting five ways to lose marks such as poor grammar, incorrectly sized media files, and broken links. It outlines the workflow for the assignment, which involves live reporting during an event and then editing the site afterwards. Key areas of focus for editing include copy editing to check for errors, adding explanatory text, and ensuring multimedia like images and videos are properly embedded with captions. The document stresses the importance of properly allocating time for all stages of editing to improve the chances of a good grade.

1. Web editing – assignment 1
LECTURE WEEK 5

2. Five ways to lose valuable marks
• Sloppy spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Videos/photos not correctly sized
• No clear sense of what is happening, when,
how, why and who is involved e.g. your site is
one long muddled ramble…
• Your photos/videos/audio/Thinglink, etc are
NOT embedded
• Your links don’t work

3. WORKFLOW
• DURING the event, you will simply upload as
you go – the emphasis is rough, ready and
LIVE reporting
• AFTER the event, EDIT your site to make it
look as good as possible…don’t skimp on this
– set aside time to sit down as a team

4. Copy editing – is your text concise?

5. Copy editing
• Check for ALL spelling, grammar and
punctuation errors
• Check correct spelling of people’s names,
names of places

6. Copy editing
• Do you need to add in some explanatory text?
• Have you clearly reflected what is happening,
when, where, who is involved, why is it
happening?
• Do your photos and videos need captions?

7. Copy editing
• Add new headlines
• Are your headlines SEO?

8. Copy editing
• Have you got chunks of text that are too long
or simply muddled ?

9. Copy editing
• Are your fonts consistent?

10. Copy editing
• Have you included all the relevant hyperlinks?
• Are all the links WORKING?

11. Multimedia editing
• Resize images/video frame

12. What went wrong with this video? Is it
possible to fix it after the event?

13. Multimedia editing
• You should have a lot of multimedia at the end
– how will you showcase the BEST pieces on
the site in the most prominent positions?

14. Repackaging multimedia
• Are there too many photos or videos?
• How will you choose between them?
• How big should they be on the website?
• Which one should be the most prominent?

15. Multimedia editing
• EMBED, don’t hyperlink – but tech problems
can arise…

16. Repackaging/updating content
• Repackage any content as you see fit, e.g.
does a series of photos go well with a piece of
audio?
• You may consider different ways of presenting
the information you have gathered, for
example would a statistic be a good graphic?

17. Assign tasks in your team
• Copy editing
• Multimedia editing
• Repackaging/updating content
MAKE TIME TO DO ALL THIS PROPERLY TO INCREASE
YOUR CHANCES OF A GOOD MARK….
Deadline reminder: You must be ready to present the
final product to the class on 17/18 November, and hand
in on 19 November.