Thursday, February 16, 2006

WP Projects, plus some FREE research helphelp

By Tuesday, you need to have begun working on the two projects from teh book:

  • WD129, #1
  • WD198, #1 (CHANGED - p. 190 was a typo!) - the "student file" mentioned in the text is located on Blackhawk, inside the "WP" folder.
There is an additional project on Blackhawk - download that file and look at the instructions. You will be changing a whole bunch of stuff in the file, and then printing it out.

We will be running through how to do all that stuff in class next week.




Free research help
The Tarver Library will offer our Research Clinic next week:
Monday Feb 20 10am - 1pm
Tuesday Feb 21 2 pm - 5pm

in the Chappell Classroom at the library. This program offers
students an opportunity to work with a librarian one on one to find resources.

In addition, we'll be conducting “Research on the Road,” --- reference librarians available
to work with students in the residence halls!

Research on the Road will be offered:
Wed Feb 22 7-9 PM in the MEP Lounge
Thur Feb 23 7-9 PM in the Sherwood Lounge


Students can register for an appointment for either program online at:

http://tarver.mercer.edu/teach/clinic.html

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Word Processing Concept List in text

If you see something that you really have no idea what it is or how to use, make sure you read the book and figure it out on your own by Tuesday Feb 14.



Entering text - typing, blank lines, formatting marks, wordwrap, on-the-fly spell & grammar check

Formatting - selecting and formatting paragraphs and characters, selecting multiple paragraphs, changing font/size/styles, alignment, undo/redo

Clip art - insert, resize

Printing

Changes - insert, delete

MLA style

Margins, line spacing, header

Indents - regular, hanging

Autocorrect, footnotes, styles, word count, page breaks

Works Cited page - manual page breaks, hanging indent, auto-insert arrows and symbols, hyperlink, sort paragraphs

Proofing - goto, moving text, smart tags, find/replace, find/replace synonym, spell & grammar check

Resume Wizard - tables, styles, autoformat

Letterhead - text color, tab stops, insert/resize graphic, paragraph border, clearing formatting

Business Letter - tab stops with ruler, insert current date, autotext entry, non-breaking space, table creation/filling, bullet list