Essay Assignment

 

Office 2007 instructions are in Red. Instructions specific to older versions are in Blue.

 

Section One – Short Story or Essay

  1. The first section of your paper will be a short story about yourself, a classmate, or a business topic. You can look at this list of business topics for ideas. The essay should be 3-4 paragraphs long and contain about 300-600 words. The story should be spaced at 1.5 lines. The paragraph alignment style should be “justified”. The font size should be 11 or 12 points.
  2. Do NOT submit a paper you have written for another class.
  3. This section should be preceded with a title (heading). For example: About Me.
  4. Use the “Style” box on the Formatting Toolbar to apply a “Heading 1” style to the title. 2007 – Home Tab, Styles Group
  5. Underneath the title, insert a copyright symbol followed by your name and the year.  A shortcut to create the symbol is to type a c in parentheses. 2007- Insert Tab, Symbol Group, Symbol Category
  6. Change the first letter in the essay to a dropped cap. This option is on the Format Menu. 2007 – Insert Tab, Text Group, Drop Cap Category, Pull-down menu.

 

Section Two - Links

  1. Underneath the story about yourself, (Press CTRL + END)  type a heading “My Favorite Links”.
  2. Use the “Style” box on the Formatting Toolbar to apply a “Heading 3” style to this heading. 2007 – Home Tab, Styles Group. Click on Heading Two in the styles list. This creates a Heading Three option in the styles list. Select Heading Three.
  3. Enter 3-6 hyperlinks, one per line. Control K is a shortcut to create a hyperlink.
  4. Format the hyperlinks as bullet points. 2007 – Home Tab, Paragraph Group.
  5. Change the bullet point symbol.  Use the Format menu, Bullets and Numbering submenu. 2007 - From the Bullets pull-down menu, select Define New Bullet. Choose one of the symbols.

 

Section Three – Quotation

  1. Underneath the Links Section, type a heading “Web Quotation”.
  2. Use the “Style” box on the Formatting Toolbar to apply a “Heading 3” style to this heading. 2007 – Home Tab, Styles Group
  3. Go to the web and find a story about something that interests you. Copy and paste the first paragraph into your document.
  4. Insert an endnote with appropriate citation. Insert Menu, Reference Submenu, Footnote. 2007 – References Tab, Footnotes Group. Include the URL and the date.
  5. After you have pasted the source information into the endnote area, return the cursor to the document area of the worksheet.

 

Header and Footer

  1. Create a header containing your name and section number.  Headers and Footers are on the View menu. 2007 – Insert Tab, Header and Footer Group. Scroll through and look at the options. Choose the first header option. If you choose another option, delete the words “Type text.”
  2. Right align the text.
  3. Add page numbers to the footer. Center them. 2007 – Insert Tab or Design Tab, Header and Footer Group. Choose the style Brackets 2.
  4. Close the Header and Footer Toolbar. 2007 - Close the Header and Footer Tab

 

Section Four – Picture

  1. Make sure your cursor is not in the Endnote area. Nothing goes in that part of the document except for author and source information.
  2. Underneath the Quotation, but NOT IN THE FOOTNOTE AREA, type a heading “Image from the Web”.
  3. Use the “Style” box on the Formatting Toolbar to apply a “Heading 3” style to this heading. 2007 – Home Tab, Styles Group
  4. Go to the Google website and find an image that relates to the quotation. Copy and paste the image into your document.

 

Above the Short Story – Insert a Table of Contents

  1. When the paper is complete, insert a table of contents. Position your cursor below the line which contains your name and the copyright symbol. Insert Menu, Reference Submenu, Index and Tables. 2007 – References Tab, Table of Contents Group, Table of Contents Category, Insert Table of Contents.
  2. Under the Table of Contents, insert a line. Use the AutoFormat feature. (Example: On a blank line type *** and press enter.) If Word doesn’t have this option, create a line using the drawing toolbar.

 

Section Five – Word Jeopardy Table

  1. Below the Image and above the endnote area, insert a table. 2007 – Insert Tab, Tables Group. The table should be 4 columns wide and 7 rows deep.
  2. Merge the cells in the top row. 2007 – Layout Tab, Merge Group Split the first cell in row two into 2 rows and 1 column. Enter text into the cells as shown in the sample table. Make the headings in rows one and two Bold, center them (both vertically and horizontally), and make them 14 point font.
  3. In column 2, rows 3-7, enter words that end with the letters “ough
  4. In column 3, rows 3-7, enter words that contain the letter Q, but do not start with a Q.
  5. In column 3, rows 3-7, enter words that contain the letter J, but do not start with a J.
  6. Center the text and numbers in rows 3-7.

Add shading to the cells using at least two different colors. First highlight the cells you want to add color to. Use the Format menu, Borders and Shadings submenu, Shadings tab. Chose Apply to: Cells. 2007- Design Tab, Table Styles Group.

Sample table

 

Jeopardy

 

Words With:

ough

“Q”

“J”

Score

200

 

 

 

400

 

 

 

600

 

 

 

800

 

 

 

1000

 

 

 

 

 

Save the file. Before coming to class, print out a hardcopy of the assignment to hand in.