CSIT58 Friday Participation Credit 3/19: Reasons and Word

Part 1: Reasons Practice (5 points)

1. I will hand out the editorials we looked at a couple of weeks ago to study issue and conclusion. Try to form the same groups and choose from the same editorials. If you were absent or some of your group members are absent, ask me for guidance.

Links to the articles (in case I don't  have enough handout copies):

"The right marriage debate: children of unwed mothers"

"E-media can rob us of that human connection"

"China's Cybertooth Tigers"

"Tattoos are permanent - and fickle"

"Sexting sends message about changing values"

"Teens, Tweeting, texting and trouble"

"What happens when you steal fire from the gods"

"A college education isn't just about the money"

"Robot romance? Twilight Zone has all the answers"

"Signs of texting while driving are hard for officers to read"

"Obama Gets Space Funding Right"

2. Choose one editorial and let me know what it is so I can make sure it isn't taken by another group. Read the editorial and locate the reasons that support the conclusion.

3. Elect ONE group member (a good typist) to log in to Etudes and go to the 3/19 Participation Discussion topic. Create a New Topic.

4. Put the title of one of your editorials in the Subject line.

5. In the body of the message, list the reasons you came up with as a group, one per line.

6.  Put the other group member's names at the end of the message and submit it

Part 2 Word Practice (5 points)

Follow along with my demonstration as we go through these steps to format a document and add graphics. I'll provide additional explanation as we go along.

  1. Start the browser and go to www.pannell.biz
  2. Click the "My Guide to Computer Careers" link
  3. Drag to select the text of the page except the Dozer Pannell title that appears at the top of the page. Copy the text to the clipboard.
  4. Start a new Word document
  5. Click the Paste arrow (NOT icon) in the Home tab and choose Paste Special, then Unformatted Text.
  6. On the Page Layout tab, click the Margins button and choose Normal (1" all around)
  7. Select all of the text and change the font to Times New Roman, 12 point (Home tab, font section)
  8. Change the alignment of all of the text to justify (Home tab, Paragraph section)
  9. Double-space all of the text (Home tab, Paragraph section). Make sure the options on the bottom of the line spacing menu say "Add space Before Paragraph" and "Add Space After Paragraph" rather than Remove.
  10. Center the Dozer's Guide to Computer Careers" title. Apply the Heading 1 Style.
  11. Click in each paragraph and indent the first line. You can do this by pressing the Tab key at the beginning of the paragraph or by clicking the Paragraph arrow on the Home tab and changing the Special box to say First Line.
  12. Insert a page header (Insert tab, Header, Blank). Type your name in the header.
  13. Right-Align your name in the header (Home tab, Paragraph section)
  14. Press Enter and insert the date (Insert tab, Date & Time)
  15. Insert a page number by clicking Page Number and Bottom of page. Choose whichever style you like.
  16. Double-click in the document to return to editing it.
  17. Go directly to the end of the document by pressing Ctrl+End
  18. Insert a hard page break (Insert tab, Page Break or press Ctrl+Enter).
  19. Locate a clip art related to the content of the document and insert it into the document (Insert tab, Clip Art)
  20. Resize the image by dragging the sizing handles.
  21. Return to your browser window and go to www.google.com. Click the Image link and search for an image related to the content.
  22. Right-click the image and choose Save Picture as. Notice the name of the image.
  23. Return to your Word document and insert the image below the clipart (Insert tab, Picture).
  24. Practice with the Picture Tools, Format tab to crop, add borders etc.
  25. Add a border to the page (Page Layout tab, Page Borders)
  26. Press Ctrl+Home to go to the start of your document.
  27. Create a Word Art that says CO SCI 58 (Insert tab, WordArt). Play with the WordArt formatting options
  28. Save the document as Mar19 and close Word.

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