A2: Word

CP102 Fall 2014

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CP102 Assignment 2 - 37 Marks

Due: Saturday, October 11, before 11:45pm

Make sure you zip your file before submitting it to the Dropbox. You can watch this video of how

to make zip files if you need help.

You must use Word for Windows or Word 2011 for Mac and the features of a word processor to layout

the document properly. If you use a Mac, make sure you can open the file on a Windows PC by emailing

it yourself and testing it on a Windows computer. If we cannot open your document in Word for

Windows then you will get 0.

he purpose of this assignment is for to get you familiar with using Microsoft Word to create an

academic paper including the use of a cover page, table of contents, citations, headers, footers,

footnotes or endnotes, and the creation of a bibliography or works cited page.

Many students hate writing essays because of the work involved in creating a bibliography (Bost, 2012).

If this sounds like you, then going through this assignment will make working on academic papers and

essays easier, which will probably mean higher marks for you!

You don’t have to write the essay for this assignment yourself, an essay that

contains multiple headings and paragraphs has already been created for you

and placed in the Dropbox. The file is called a2_start.docx. Although it

doesn’t make much sense if you were to read it all the way through, it

provides all the “content” you need and your assignment is simply to make it look like an academic

paper.

Remember, you don’t have to write the paper yourself. All the text has

been “mocked up” for you as Latin text – you just have to format the

document.

The source text you will be working with contains headings that are in plain English so you can easily

identify them. Headings created using the Headings style in Word are required for the correct use of a

table of contents that can be automatically generated and kept up-to-date.

Below is a list of books that you will pretend you used as references for the document. Add these three

books to your list of sources using the Manage Sources tool in Word.

 Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold (link)

 What's Real Anymore: A Comparison of World of Warcraft, SecondLife and Online Experiences

(link)

 Secondlife: The Complete Guide (link)

T

Tip: This is known

as an in-text

citation.

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Requirements 1. A cover page created using the Cover Page tool. Document title should be Digital Life (do not

bold the title). Choose any cover page you want. Delete the subtitle and date fields if they

appear. (5 marks)

a. Make sure your name appears in the cover page if you choose one that contains an

Author field. The name Rick Henderson should not appear in your cover page.

2. Headings formatted using the Styles tool. (5 marks)

a. Items listed as Sub Topic should be formatted using the Heading 2 style. The other

items should be formatted as the Heading 1 style.

3. A Table Of Contents (should contain 8 items, excluding the bibliography) generated using the

Table of Contents tool. It should be placed alone on a separate page. It should be page 2, after

the cover page. (5 marks)

a. When you first create the Table of Contents, it will show 8 items. After step 8 of these

instructions you should update the TOC to include the Bibliography so that 9 items

appear.

4. List 3 sources in the Source Manager (provided above) (5 marks).

5. Add citations using the References tool. Add the citation for the first book at the end of the first

paragraph, the citation for the second book at the end of the second paragraph etc. for all three

books. Use the newest APA style or just the APA style depending on what is available on your

computer. (5 marks)

a. If you cannot find the City for a given publisher, leave it blank.

b. References should contain at least Author, Title, Year, and Publisher Name.

6. A header containing your name and Laurier e-mail address. (3 marks)

7. A footer containing the page number in the lower, right corner. (2 marks)

8. A bibliography containing the 3 references you used in the assignment. Make sure your

bibliography appears on a page by itself at the end of the document. You must use the

Bibliography tool in Word, not type the entries in manually. (5 marks)

a. Remember to update the Table of Contents so the Bibliography appears. This can be

done by updating the one you completed already, don’t recreate the table of contents.

9. Add a footnote to the end of the last paragraph in the Foreword of the document. The footnote

should say “This document contains lorem ipsum text.” Do not include the quotation marks. (2

marks).

MAD SKILLZ: Do you know how to get the dropcap and the “sticky note” like on page one of this

document? While not required for the assignment, that material was covered in the training and

lab videos so you should be familiar with the techniques.

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More Info If you would like more information on when to cite your sources in a paper you are writing for another

class, check out this video at the Laurier Library web site, When To Cite.

Bibliography Bost, J. (2012, September 22). MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you.

Retrieved September 25, 2012, from Office In Education: http://blogs.office.com/b/office-

education/archive/2010/09/22/mla-apa-chicago-microsoft-word-formats-bibliographies-for-

you.aspx

Other info according to the Chicago Manual of Style, make sure to include in your assignment:

Bibliography must appear in Table of Contents. When you add the bibliography, you need to

update the TOC.

TOC should be page #2. Cover page should not have a page number. If the page numbers are

changed after the TOC is added, you will also have to update the TOC.