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1 REPORT Create a report in Word that demonstrates your mastery Microsoft Word. The report should include a narrative describing your future life and include the documents you have prepared so far. This should contain sections describing the pieces you created for your portfolio cover letter, resume, computer system comparison. All references should be cited - any sources used for the items you include should be cited in this report. You should also provide footnotes for any data you would like to comment about. Save the document as report.docx Upload & submit it to D2L Assignment dropbox: Report. The report should incorporate images of your various documents and an image of your original job advertisement. The images should be resized and positioned to look good and should not take up the entire page. See the cover letter or resume assignment page to see how you can resize these items fairly small in a document. Any mistakes you made in the previous assignments should be corrected before you created the image to insert in your report. You should have the following sections: An Introduction which describes the position you are seeking and summarizes your skills, training and experience. o Introductory paragraph that describes the type of job you were looking for, site you used to find a job, geographic places you thought would be nice to find a job, salary you were looking for etc. o Include an image of your job ad or a portion of the job ad. o Include a two column table which lists the job qualifications described in the ad (column one) and your qualifications (or the qualification you will have) (column two). The table should be formatted to be visually appealing. A section for your Job Application o Introductory paragraph that describes the documents you created. Areas of your resume that may be lacking, more education and what area (certifications etc) that could add to your resume and other relevant information. o Include an image of your cover letter (not more than 4 inches tall) o Include an image of your resume (not more than 4 inches tall) A section for your Computer System Research o Introductory paragraph that describes the types of general systems you were researching. Include the web sites you looked at and the systems you found. o Include an image of your computer system comparison table o Include the analysis paragraph about the computers you wrote for that assignment. 8/24/2018 Page 1 of 6

2 Divide the report using SECTION BREAKS (not page breaks) into sections (cover page, table of contents, content, and bibliography), use section break- new page between each section. All sources should be cited in your report (either parenthetical citations in your content area or use the footnote format). The content of the paper should be at least 500 words (1.15 spaced). Use topic headers as appropriate to organize your paper these should be used to create the Word generated table of contents (TOC). Cite all sources and create a Word generated bibliography of sources at the end of your paper. Use the source manager to manage your sources for the bibliography and the citations. There should be at least three footnotes included to explain something or cite sources. TOC should have automatic page numbering at the bottom; formatted as lowercase roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv ). Content pages should have automatic page numbering at the bottom; begin the content as page 1. Create a cover page for the paper that includes an appropriate image and no headers or footers. To summarize your report should have: - cover page with the title, author, date and an image you insert (no headers or footers) - Word TOC which automatically incorporates your content headings (update before saving) - All sources should be in the source manager and cited at least once in the report words or more - Content should integrate images from the items in your portfolio that you completed - Page numbering in the TOC should use roman numerals, content area should use digits starting at page 1 - Three or more Word managed footnotes (can be used for citations) - Word generated bibliography using source manager (update before saving) Citations, footnotes, bibliography, page numbers, and table of contents entries should be implemented using the power of the word processor. DO NOT manually implement these; you will not get credit for them!! All formatting should be consistent and performed according to the style guidelines unless noted differently in the directions above. Points will be deducted for incorrectly formatted or sloppy, incomplete work. Refer to the rubric for grading of this assignment. An example of a completed report is shown at the end of this document to assist you in completing the assignment correctly. 8/24/2018 Page 2 of 6

3 GUIDE for CREATING a good REPORT: Remember that I am grading you on your use of the word processor and therefore you need to create the report using the power of MS Word. The secret to success with this report is to use the section breaks and follow the order of the steps below. The section break allows you to divide formatting specific details to each section (instead of an entire document). So you can control headers and footers for each section (they can be different or they can be linked together to make them the same). You can also control the page number count, resetting it at the beginning of a section. If you have trouble with your page numbering, headers or footers on your report then examine your section breaks. See my step-by-step instructions below!! Steps to create a term paper: 1. Research collect your sources. 2. Create a New Document Set margins, line spacing, font, alignment, other doc settings. 3. Add Sources to the Source Manager Enter sources in the Source Manager (if you already entered them for another document you can copy them from your master source list into your current document source list). 4. Enter Content of Report DO NOT BEGIN with the cover page or the table of contents. Begin typing a few blank lines by pressing the enter key these can be removed later. Then begin typing in the content of the report (using headings as needed) Heading 1 and Heading 2 style will automatically be incorporated in your table of contents, so use these for your main headings and your sub headings. 5. Enter Footnotes and Citations - Enter your citations and footnotes as content is entered. All sources in your source manager should be cited at least one time. You can use the footnotes for this or insert the citations into the content area. 6. Insert a section break (section-next page) after your content area, this will be for your bibliography. Enter a few blank lines after the section break and insert your bibliography on this last page. 7. Move to top of your report document (ctl-home). This should move you to the blank lines you entered at the start of your content area. Press enter a few times then insert a section break (sectionnext page). 8. Insert Cover Page Move again to the top of your document (ctl-home). Insert your cover page. You can create your own or insert one provided by word (INSERT: Pages/Cover Page). Make sure you include the required information on your cover page and remove any fields/data not used (select it and delete it). 9. Insert Table of Contents (TOC) Immediately following your cover page (if you created your own then you will need a section break (section-next page), if you used the MS Word cover page then a page break has already been added. Insert your table of contents (REFERENCES: Table of Contents/Automatic ), make sure to select one of the automatic ones. You should immediately see your TOC with any data that has a Heading 1 or Heading 2 style. If something shows up here that doesn t belong find it in your content area and select it change the style to Normal. Update your TOC and it should disappear! 8/24/2018 Page 3 of 6

4 10. Header and Footer Unlinking UNLINK all section headers and footers. You will need to actually visit each section s header and each section s footer. Start with your cover page header and footer and move through each page and unlink (Header and Footer Tool Ribbon: toggle off the Linkto-previous and the same as previous tag should disappear.) Do this for each header and footer in the entire document. You can relink those sections together that you want together later. 11. Insert Header, Footer and Page Numbering in the first section This may include your cover page and TOC or just your cover page. Either way you should select Header and Footer Tool Ribbon: check the box for Different First Page. The cover page should have NO header and NO footer. Move to the TOC page. Insert the page number right justified in the footer. From the Header and Footer Tool Ribbon: Select Page Number/Format Page Numbers to modify the format of the page number and if needed, what page it is starting with. The TOC should show up as i for page one. 12. Insert Header, Footer and Page Numbering in the content section Move to the header of the first page of the content section. Insert your header as indicated in the Style Guidelines. Move to the footer of the content section and insert your footer as indicated in the Style Guidelines. From the Header and Footer Tool Ribbon: Select Page Number/Format Page Numbers to modify the format of the page number and the starting page number for this section (should start at 1). 13. Insert Header, Footer and Page Numbering in the bibliography section Move to the header of the bibliography section. From the Header and Footer Tool Ribbon: toggle on the Link-to-previous and the same as previous tag should appear. The header from the content area should be visible in this section. Do the same in the footer. 14. Clean up extra blank lines and other whitespace characters reveal your whitespace characters by toggling on the HOME: Show/Hide icon. You should now see all of your section breaks, page breaks, enter keys etc. It is easier to clean up the document if you can see these no see-em characters. Remember, if you accidentally delete something that changes everything UNDO! To turn off the visibility of the character, just toggle it off by selecting the HOME: Show/Hide icon again. 15. Check Spelling and Grammar Run the Spelling and Grammar checker through the entire document. 16. Preview the Report Use the VIEW: multiple pages to preview the report. Make sure it looks organized and double check the headers and footers. 17. Update All Fields Before the final save update the Table of Contents and update the Bibliography 18. Save final copy! 8/24/2018 Page 4 of 6

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