In review of Chapter 5 from Nelson's "Creative Editing for Canadian Journalists" there is a lot of information. How the writer applies and a hermeneutical interpretion that information can vary from person to person. Here are our discoveries of the text.
Purpose
The chapter is about differentiating role of the copy-editor as the fact-checker and the reporters necessity to do his/her homework. The author is attempting to show the reader when to double check facts, and where those facts can be verified. In giving this information the author is trying to convince the aspiring copy editor to compile relevant information from credible sources.
Structure and Features
Chapter 5 was made scandable through bold subheads, an apopropirate understanding of numbered and bulleted lists, and giving concrete textualy recognizable examples. This suggests that the author was chunking information into useful easy to find sections for the reader. The figures refrence examples and suggest optional information for the reader. The language that is used is very clear and concise for a complex subject matter, suggesting the author is well read and understands the subject on which he/she is talking.
Power
There is really no place for this text to be either fair or unfair, it simply suggests and hints at relevant reference material for copy editors. The chapter presents different sources on different levels of credibility. Personal websites such as blogs and non-profit sites are more opinionated and biased, where as government and news sites are seen as a trused place to turn to for facts. The text serves the interst of the copy editor who needs as system of sorting through the unlimited amont of information available on the World Wide Web.
Gaps
All of the different domain options are mentioned, but none of them are ever sited or used as examples of good or bad. Social Networking sites; however, are not mentioned in the text as a starting source for information. All of the information in the text is directed more towards copy editors and not reporters, the text makes references that reporters need a much more extensive library of refrence for facts and sources, double checking quotes and other facts in the story. The text does not mention how the copy editor should deal with questionable quotes.
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