Supplemental Resources for Designing E-Learning: Detailed List of Issues Addressed in Copyediting

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Detailed List of Issues Addressed in Copyediting

Issues of editorial style, including:

Usage
Spelling
Punctuation
Capitalization
Consistency of terminology
Parallelism and levels of headings (that is, did you designate a heading at the appropriate level)

Page and screen design issues: Makes designs are consistent among pages and screens and that any final production instructions are clear. Specifically, copyeditors address issues such as:

Templates for screen designs are appropriately followed.
Headings, making sure that each heading is properly marked with its appropriate level and, if additional production work is required, that instructions are complete and clear.
Navigation bars, making sure they are consistently placed on each screen where they belong and that you used a consistent scheme for indicating sections
Tables and charts, making sure that tables and charts are consistent in appearance and style and that production instructions, if any, are complete. For example, if a table in topic 4 has lines separating the cells and the column heading for it are initial capped, the copyeditor makes sure that the chart in topic 14 follows the same instructions.
Illustrations and graphics, making sure that graphics are properly placed and that a camera-ready graphic or instructions for producing it are provided for each graphic marked in the text. The editor also makes sure that each graphic has a caption and, if used a figure number (if you are using figure numbers).
Margins are clearly marked and observed
Type font, including emphasis type, such as bold and italic, making sure they are properly marked and that emphasis type is consistently and properly used. For example, terms from other languages (other than computer languages!) that appear in English documents are usually italicized.

Because the sponsor has approved the text as is and significant changes at this late stage require sponsor approval (and will likely delay publication), copyeditors do not make substantive changes to the text at this time.