Michael Longinow | Biola University SEARCH AND DESTROY Any given
edition of a daily or weekly publication will have its share of
errors. They're a wealth of learning opportunities. Use the
campus newspaper because it's more accessible and culturally
relevant to students. Pull out the campus newspaper, hand one to
everyone in the class, and give them 20 minutes to find all the
errors in the newspaper. Divide the class into teams. One is
copy. One is headlines and cutlines. One is photo-cropping,
placement of images (juxtaposition) and overall design flaws.
When the 20 minutes are up, you have each team report to the
class what they found. You award a bag of peanut M&Ms to the
winner (so the prizes can be distributed). Then you talk about
what they found and how those kinds of errors sneak into the
newspaper. Is it a software thing? Is it an organizational
problem? Is it a too-many-cooks problem? You also talk about
ways editors can do quality control on each area of error to
make sure they don't happen. Then y