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Lesson One
Due July 2
Let's push the edge with our use
of the word processor Microsoft Word. Your first assignment is to create
a document of at least two pages in length using all following features.
The document will be a review of two related articles.
Content:
This will be your first article
review. Select an article from a reputable source, typically a journal
where the articles are reviewed by peers, either from a library or the
Internet, in hardcopy or electronic format. Choose a topic with the
parameters of "computers in education." This is a very broad topic,
but it will give us a chance to get our feet damp finding articles and
selecting topics. Choose a much more specific topic within the broad
range. After having chosen a topic and perhaps read that article, choose
a second article on the same or related topic so that you can quote
at least two references and list at least two articles in your bibliography.
Formatting:
Using Microsoft Word, compose
your review.
- Use the Paragraph feature to indent new paragraphs
.4", with 12 point spacing between paragraphs, and 1.5 spacing within
paragraphs.
- Include a footnote as a reference with the content
of a paragraph.
- Include the page number on the top right of each
page (in the header) but not the first page.
- Choose appropriate font size and style, and alignment
for the title of the document.
- In a faded gray color in the footer include the
location of this document on your computer.
- Include a bibliography page created by using Noodlebibs,
which can be found on the Internet at www.wou.edu/library. Use the
APA format. Include the title for this page and include the page
number.
- Did you set your margins?
Additional formatting, the second part of
this assignment:
Still using Microsoft Word, reformat
your review, almost like a newspaper or newsletter.
- Reformat your document so that it has the single
title on the top of the page but the content is in two columns.
- Deduce the size of your margins (using the Document
feature).
- Single space between lines.
- Deduce the paragraph indents to approximately the
size of two characters.
- Include no extra space between paragraphs.
- Include an short Table of Contents in the first
column.
- Include a short Index of some key words from the
article.
- Include a textbox approximately in the middle partially
extending into each column.
- How's the image coming along?
- Do not include a bibliography page.
- Change the font face.
The third word processing assignment:
This time using Microsoft Word
create a one-page poster, the front of a program, a menu, or a flyer.
- This is your opportunity to create something with
fewer specific requirements.
- Use the Table feature to help format the document.
- Be creative and take risks on formatting and design.
- Use good design guidelines, such as Contrast when
objects are different, Repeat the same format for similar concepts,
Align items to help the eye to move across the document, place items
in the same Proximity for similar concepts, and use proper variations
in text.
- Save this document as a webpage. Save it directly
in your public_html folder on Western Oregon University compuiter
system. Email me the name of the document.
Submitting the assignment:
It would be good to have some
time to work through all these details, so submit the first two assignments
to me as attachments in an email
to me by Monday evening, July 2. Submit the name of the document
(third assignment) you saved in your public_html folder in the same
email. We will not be meeting on campus on July 4th.
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