Course code

SKK6037.HT

old course code

SKK6037

Course title in Estonian

Ajakirjandustekstide toimetamine

Course title in English

Editing of Journalistic Texts

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

assessment

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

During the course students get an idea of what editing is and how to edit a journalistic text. Students obtain both theoretical and practical knowledge in editing.

Brief description of the course

Types of editing procedures, the logic of editing, the meaning of a text. The work of an editor from a stylistic perspective; assessment criteria; communicational errors and the ways to correct them. The ethical side of editing. Readers’ interests and the ways to understand them (subject – title - the opening sentence).
Students are given texts for training purposes and write tests to check their progress in theory. Students also analyze independently published texts.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
By the end of the course students get theoretical and practical editing skills.

Teacher

Lekt. Vitali Belobrovtsev, MA

Prerequisite course 1

Introduction to Editing (SKK6034.HT)

Study programmes containing that course

Journalism (SKAMB/11.FK)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/10.HT)
Journalism (SKAMB/10.FK)
Russian Philology (SKVB/10.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/10E.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/10E.HT)
Journalism (SKAMB/10E.FK)
Russian Philology (SKVB/08E.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/08.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/07.HT)