| Focus
Questions |
| Why
is document processing and formatting important?
How
do good graphics principles apply to the printed page?
Does
"Cut and Paste" encourage plagiarism?
What
are the advantages and disadvantages of using templates and wizards?
How
can you use formatting to enhance the content of your research paper? |
| Interactive
Tutorials |
| Microsoft
Word Editing Exercises |
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Documents
Microsoft Word
- Word
Processing with Word 2002 (XP) -- U of Mary Washington
- Microsoft Word 2007 -- U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Creating Effective Documents
-
Guidelines for Creating Effective Documents
Guides to creating Web sites
- Creating Web Pages Using Microsoft Word -- Hartnell Coll
- Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition -- Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton
- Finding Images on the Web -- Boston U
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| "From
the very first, once a thing was written, it inevitably had to be written
again and again, often identically and sometimes with slight amendments.
In early Mesopotamia, rooms full of slave clerks met the need, pressing
reed styli into soft clay as a reader called out the words. Paper
pens, and ink were invented, but the rooms full of clerks remained.
The printing press cut down the number of clerks, but had its limitations.
The typewriter, especially when used with carbon paper, certainly helped
ease the situation, but businesses needed more and more copies and more
slightly changed documents, so the rooms full of clerks remained, as typists
in typing pools.
Oddly,
even though the need was finally met by automation, the rooms full of clerks
remain because the more documents it is possible to produce, the more documents
business and government seem to need."
-Walter
Hawn
from
"Word Processing"
Macmillan
Encyclopedia of Computers
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Students
should
be
able to:
Manage and communicate information professionally
Click here for specific outcomes
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James Foresman
Chemistry Professor |
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"We hope that the quality
of student presentations will improve, that their written work submitted,
such as term papers and lab reports will all take advantage of the new
technologies and form processing. For instance, in Chemistry, we
often times want to format a complicated equation.
There are tools that allow
that to be done very professionally. That is what we are going to
expect from our students. This is going to be the new standard in taking
these skills outside of the York College experience, not only preparing
them for course work, but in their presentations they'll give certainly
as professionals. They will always be able to use these skills as they
continue through life." |
Deborah
Ricker
Biology Professor |
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"For
employment purposes, I think it [ability to use computer applications]
is going to be important because... employers are looking toward hiring
students who have some familiarity and some ability to use these technologies.
Having our students have these capabilities in their arsenals will make
them much more marketable in the job force." |
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