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Instructions
Use an essay that you wrote from a previous class. You may be able to find one in your school email, turnitin.com, or another place if you uploaded it online. If you cannot find one then ask one of your friends if they can email you a copy of their paper if they are not or have not used it for this assignment.
Notes
Whenever you are working on any tutorial in CA you should be taking brief notes in your CA book on things you think that are important and should remember. If you don't have your CA book then write on a half page (don't be crazy and take too many though) of clear paper for now.
Make sure you add titles to help you organize your notes. For example, in all CAPS write MS WORD at the top of the page and draw a box around it. Then under it, write in smaller text MS Word Tutorial 1: Essay and underline it. Then neatly write your notes under the title and feel free to draw diagrams and pictures if needed to help you remember. Remember to write at least half a page of notes for each tutorial.
Video Tutorial
When working on assignments always open the video tutorial on the left side of your screen and the assignment application (e.g. Word) on the right side (like the image below) and use cmd + tab to switch back and forth between applications.
Directions
Watch the tutorial video and complete the directions (if you do not have certain sections like an outline, work cited, etc then just make a simple sample one and you can make up the information) & take brief notes while you watch it to your essay; In my video I am using an older version of Word so you can try to figure out the new updated version of Word to complete the directions and below are some helpful hints:
- You can skip the auto-summarize section at 21:20-22:15.
After you are finished completing the video tutorial, double check the list below to make sure you have completed all of the directions:
- Create an unofficial title page with the title centered vertically and horizontallyCreate a table of contents with two or three headers. The table of contents should show the heading page numbers using left tabs. Use the following settings on the right for your tab. After you click "set" for your tab, don't forget you need to actually press the tab key on the keyboard after your heading to make the .....
- If you do not have subject headings in your essay, add a few.
- Insert bookmarks and hyperlinks to the table of contents headers.
- Make sure the name that you give to your bookmark when you "insert bookmark" is only one word.
- Create a very short outline using proper MLA format. Use at least I, II, and II and at least one set of A, B, and C in one of the roman numerals.
- Type your paper info (name, teacher, class, date) using the proper MLA format on the first page when your essay content begins.
- Insert your last name and page number in the top right header of the page using MLA (don't follow the video directions on this part)
- Center the title of your essay
- Double space the entire word document (command + a, then command + 2)
- Use the thesaurus to change two words in your first complete sentence of your essay.
- Apply hanging indents to your references; if you don't have any, just add one and make sure to use the MLA format and MLA citation tool in the tab of the toolbox
- Read over your paper and make two comments on the first few paragraphs of your essay and apply track changes while correcting at least three grammar or spelling errors/improvements
- Take a screenshot of your readability statistics
When you are finished, save it as a Word doc and a PDF copy and send these with a readability statistics screenshot as an email to your Wordpress using your CA class email account.
If you forgot your WordPress email address, go to the following address but change the blue to your ID: yourClassID.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs
Remember in the email to write the cateogry in the format: [category tutWord] on the first line of the email.
You must email this and all future assignments to your wordpress to officially turn it in to get a grade. Make sure it appears on your Wordpress page and Twitter. When I check your work to see if you turned it in on time I will check your Twitter day/time. In the submit directions if it ever says submit or email to Posterous then that just means email to Wordpress.
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