Advanced Microsoft Word Tools for Academic Writing: High School Student Guide (Part 1), Summaries of Technology

Download Advanced Microsoft Word Tools for Academic Writing: High School Student Guide (Part 1) and more Summaries Technology in PDF only on Docsity! CAPITOL UNIVERSITY Cagayan de Oro City SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PACKET SUBJECT: Empowerment Technology ESSENTIAL TOPICS: How do I Use Advanced Word Tools to Develop Content? (Part 1) LESSON CODE: W3L3 LEARNING OBJECTIVES: By the end of this lesson, the students should be able to: a. Create original or derivative content while carefully citing sources using advanced MS Word tools in the Citation and Bibliography group; b. Proofread existing content using advanced MS Word tools; c. Send customized letters to a large group of people using the Mail-Merge feature of MS Word. STARTER QUESTIONS To make an assessment of Word tools and know which you have been using before, check all that you are aware of in the table below. Checking Ol Text Basic Ol Headers | Spelling and Grammar . Pictures and Text Track Changes O Formatting Text O Wrapping O and Comments Formatting Finalizing and ee ee C1 preven. Printing O Documents oO Shapes O Smart Art Line and Ol Paragraph Oo apexes and C] Mail Merge Spacing Ol List Ol Tables | Styles oO Hyperlinks Ol Chart | Reference Microsoft Word is a word processing application developed by the Microsoft Corporation. It lets you create documents for your assignments, term paper or research work, letters, and certificates or just edit any text document. It provides several features that make your work, like copying and pasting text from different sources, inserting objects, laying out content, and editing and proofreading documents, much esier. DISCUSSION References: Citations and Bibliography Steps in creating your bibliography: Mailings 1. Choose your reference style. => [3 Manage Sources - Ask your teacher what is the required style guide for a XS Style: APA [=] nse your document. Citation ~ iii Bibliography ~ - Choose from APA, MLA, and Chicago. - Click the Reference tab, then select the desired style in the Citations & Bibliography group. 2. Add Citations and Sources. - Click the Insert Citation command in the References Mailings Review 33 Manage Sources tab, and select Add New Sources. UR, Style: |APA Fiftt ~ - Adialogue box will appear. Just enter the requested iP Bibliography ~ GCF161 information, like the author’s name, title, and publication GCF Learn for Free, (2016) details. Then click OK. “@& AddNewSource., [> Add New Placeholder 3. Insert the bibliography. - You can easily create the bibliography or references at the end of your document once you encode the list of sources in step 2. - Inthe References tab, select Bibliography command, then choose the desired style. Type of Source Book Bibliography Fields for APA Fifth Editon Author (0 corporate Author Checking Spelling and Grammar How to Run Spelling and Grammar Tool 1. Click the Spelling & Grammar command from the Review tab. HOME INSERT DESIGN) «= PAGELAYOUT ~—REFERENCES = MAILINGS ~=—s REVIEW VIEW Spelling & Define Theseurus Word Translete Languege New Delete Previou ext Show Track Grammar Count * ° Comment Comments Changes~ Proofing language Comments 2. The Spelling and Grammar pane will appear. World will try to give one or more suggestions for each error in your document. You can select a suggestion and click Change to correct error. 3. Word will move through the error until you have reviewed them all. After reviewing all the errors, a dialog box will appear confirming that the spelling and grammar check is complete. Click OK. 4. If NO SUGGESTIONS are given, you can manually type the correct spelling in your document. Ignoring “errors” The spelling and grammar check is not always correct. If Word identifies correct words as errors, you can choose to ignore it. You can choose from these options: For spelling “errors”: ¢ Ignore: will skip the word in question without changing it. ¢ Ignore All: will skip the word in question and all other instances of the word in the document without changing it. e Add: adds the word to the dictionary so it will never come up as an error. For grammar “errors”: ¢ Ignore: will skip the word or phrase without changing it.