Homework 4: Formatting a Report

The goals of this homework are:

• Demonstrate your ability to use document level formatting in word.
• Demonstrate your ability to build a table of contents in word.
• Demonstrate your ability to use the citation manager in word.
• Demonstrate your ability to add and format page numbers.
• Demonstrate your ability to work with pictures and shapes.

Overview

Your goal for this homework is to create a proposal document for someone wishing to work on a project using this data.

Instructions

• A working draft of the paper is here
  • Download this and save it somewhere you can find it.
• Markup
  • Appropriately mark the title, and headings.
  • "Introduction", "The Data", "Data Acquisition and Formatting", "Data Dictionary" "Sample of the Dataset", and "Future Work" are all primary headings.
  • On the first page, "Overview" and "Summary Information" are sub headings of "The Data".
  • Lists should be marked as List Paragraph
  • All other text should be marked as normal.
• Change the document style set to be Black and White (classic)
• Change the document so that all normal text is double spaced.
  • This changes the spacing in the lists, so modify the List Paragraph style so that lists are single spaced.
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• Between the title and the text insert a table of contents.
• Citations:
  • Add a citation to the second sentence in the introduction:
    • The second sentence in the introduction is from the book:
      • Title: World History of Highland Games
      • Author: David P. Webster and Lynn Boland Richardson
      • Published by: Luath Press, Edinburgh Scotland
      • Publication Date: December 10, 2011
    • Add a citation to the citation manager for this source.
    • Cite this source.
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  • Add a second citation to the NASGA web page at the end of the first sentence in the section labeled The Data. This was from the Database page, assume you retrieved the citation today. Note the author's name is on the front page.
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• Bib
  • Add a new page at the end of the document and insert a bibliography.
  • This should be in a new section.
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• On the figure in step 2 of Data Acquisition and Formatting
  • Add a arrow pointing to the word Database.
  • Group this arrow and the picture so they are a single object.
  • In the next picture, circle the word Pro and the date 2018 with a shape.
  • Group this collection into a single object as well.
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• Insert a cover page
  • Remove the title from the normal document and add it to the cover page.
  • Make sure that your name is on the cover page.
  • Make sure all other blank fields are either filled in or removed.
• Put the table of contents on a page page by its self.
  • This should be a different section from the rest of the document.
• Add page numbers.
  • The table of contents should be numbered with Roman numerals (i, ii, iii) starting with i.
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  • The normal document should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1,2,3...) starting with 1.
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  • The Bib should be numbered with lower case letters, (a, b, c, ...) starting with a.
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  • All should be in the upper right hand corner of the page.
  • update the table of contents.

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