homework2: Using MS Word

There are three files to be turned in for this homework

        1) Create an outline for a paper using the outline view of MS Word.

        2) Using MS Word, create a paper from the above outline.

        3) Create a resume using a MS Word template.

    This will be done in two stages, stage1 and stage2. For stage1 you will turn in one email using your yahoo email account only with the file “outline.doc” or outline.docx” attached to it. For stage2 you will turn in an email with two attachments: the completed paper with the name “paper.doc” or “paper.docx” and the file “resume.doc” or “resume.docx” on the specified due date. If you need to re-submit the assignment, you must re-submit both attachments with each email, even if only one attachment needs to be fixed. Turn these documents in to me before midnight on the due dates as attachments to email at joecash@sol.csustan.edu . The subject lines should look like this: 

For stage1 the subject line will look the following. Note the position of all colons:

cs2000_1:homework2:lastName,firstName:stage1 

and for stage2 the subject line will look like this:

cs2000_1:homework2:lastName,firstName:stage2

or

cs2000_3:homework2:lastName,firstName:stage1 

and for stage2 the subject line will look like this:

cs2000_3:homework2:lastName,firstName:stage2

or

cs4000_1:homework2:lastName,firstName:stage1 

and for stage2 the subject line will look like this:

cs4000_1:homework2:lastName,firstName:stage2

depending on which class you are in.

KurzweilAI.net news write-up instructions

For each stage create a new and different write-up of the kurzweilAI.net news as described in the directions for homework1.

outline.doc

    In MS Word use the outline view to create an outline for your paper. Please note that the purpose of this homework is to show me that you know how to use the outline view to create an outline, not to create an outline using Roman numerals and your own indenting, etc.  Your paper should correspond to your outline. This is a chance to prepare to write your paper using the outline feature of MS Word to organize your thoughts before having to fill in the details. You should include at least three quotes in the endnotes of your outline from the internet. You may use a search engine, an internet directory, and a natural language search engine like http://ask.com to find evidence to support your statements. Name the file outline.doc. The outline should be for a paper on one of the topics listed below in the "paper.doc" section of this web page. You should not have any text in the outline that is the default font, i.e. no text should be at the "body text" level.

The outline should have exactly 3 level 1 entries.  We will call the first level 1 entry the “Introduction" the second the “Body" and the third the “Conclusion" though by the time you turn your outline in, each should be more descriptive of the content of that section of your paper.  The Introduction and Conclusion will have at least 2 level two entries each.   The Body will have more than two level 2 entries and will be deep enough to have at least level 4 entries.  Do not skip any levels.  There should be no blank lines in the outline.  If an entry has a sub-entry, it must never be the only entry at that level; i.e. if a level 3 entry has a level 4 entry under it, then it must have at least 2 level 4 entries: never leave a level entry solitary with only one entry at that level.  If there is a solitary sub-entry, that is a hint to you that the idea can be analyzed and divided further so that you will have more sub-entries; or it may be an indication that the solitary sub-entry properly should be demoted to the lower level, e.g. that the level 4 entry really deserves to be at level 3. 

Use the endnote feature of MS Word to put your cited evidence in the endnotes.  You can view the endnotes by hovering over the superscript that is next to the text you attached the endnote to. Be sure you give credit to the original authors in each endnote.  You may postpone putting the quotations in the endnotes until stage2 so that you have “body text" to attach your endnotes to.

Here is a link to the first draft of an example of an outline.

Here is a link to the second draft of an example of an outline.

Here is a link to the first draft of the corresponding paper.

Here is a link to the final version of the corresponding paper.

Here is a link to potential citations for the above paper.

paper.doc

    Use MS Word to write a paper on one of the following topics:

1) The use of computers in your chosen field of study.

2) Falsifiability.

3) The verifiability theory of meaning as used in logical positivism. Include criticisms.

4) Hypothetico-deductive method. Include criticisms.

5) The inductive method as used in science. Include criticisms.

6) Computational complexity.

7) The theory of algorithms.

8) The theory of formal languages.

9) Complex adaptive systems

10)Self-organizing systems

11)Emergence

12)Fractal geometry

13)Chaotic dynamical systems

14)Information theory.

15)Technological singularity (Look this up in Wikipedia).

16)Transhumanism. (This is my favorite.)

17)The relationship between information theory and thermodynamics (especially entropy.)

18)The principle of computational equivalence.

19)Brain computer interface.

20)A scientific analysis of emotions and attempts to model emotions in machines.

21)Determinism in physics.

22)Scientific materialism.

23)Malthusian doctrine, overpopulation, “the repugnant conclusion”, and Paul Ehrlich’s “IPAT” equation.

24)Negative Utilitarianism.

25)John Rawls “A Theory of Justice”.

26)Kardashev scale.

27)Report on the book “The End of Work” by Jeremy Rifkin.

28)De-escalation.

29)Scientific analysis of violence.

30)Futurology.

31)Thought, or cognition or the cognitive sciences.

32)To write on another topic (science or computer science only) get my approval first.

Convert your outline into a paper.  Do this by switching from the outline view to the print layout view. 

Change the default font type.  Now use saves-as to save your paper with the name "paper.doc". 

Switch back and forth as needed between outline view and print layout view to change format of the paper to suit your taste. 

The text you type in from this point forward will be in the default font and style unless you over-ride that font or style. 

Insert the text of your paper in the appropriate places in the outline.  Use proper indentation.

Consider the outline text to be like chapter titles, section titles, and topic headings.  Think of how our textbooks are arranged as an example. If you look at the Beekman book, the chapter titles, like “Basics" in chapter 0, are in very large font. Then, the next major sub-section of “Basics" for example in this case it is “PC-Basics" is in a somewhat smaller font. The next section at the same level as “PC-Basics" is “File Management Basics" Under “File Management Basics" is another sub-level named “File Organization Basics" and another named “File Compression Basics" This organization becomes easier to see if you look at the table of contents for chapter 0 in the Beekman book. As a matter of fact, this is exactly what will happen: you create an outline for your paper, and then insert the body text in the sections in your outline. After that, it’s just a couple of mouse clicks to create a complete, hyperlinked table-of-contents for your paper.

When you are done editing, switch back to print layout view to see what it looks like.

The paper will have a title page, a hyperlinked table of contents on the page immediately following the title page, a body, and a set of endnotes. 

Note that this table of contents is easy to insert, it just takes a couple of mouse clicks if you have already created an outline for the paper.

The paper should be a minimum of two pages long not including the title page, table of contents or the endnotes. 

Note that all quotations you use as evidence to support your thesis go in the endnotes; no quotations should appear in the body of the paper.

Use the page break feature to ensure that the table of contents starts on the top of a fresh page, not on the title page.

Use the page break feature to ensure that the paper itself starts at the top of a fresh page, not on the same page as the table of contents.

Use one-and-one-half line spacing for the text of the paper.

You may edit the outline headings to change them slightly to suit the paper: some may be omitted, but there should be at least some topic levels (outline level 3) in the body of the paper.

Show me that you know how to use the following features of MS Word:

One inch margins (top, left and right and bottom.)

>=3 activated hyperlinked quotes in the endnotes of the paper from three different web sites.

On the title page include the following:

            The title of your paper as word art,

            By Joe Cash (replace my name with your name)

            (put your course and section number followed by the current semester and year on this line)

e.g. you would put "Spring 2006" if that is the current semester and year

The last two lines above should be in a different color, centered, bolded, underlined, italicized, in a different font face, and in a different font size. 

Put page numbers in the header.

Use the spell check and grammar check.   

If you follow the above directions, the content of your paper will (and must) match the content of your outline.

resume.doc

In MS Word use a template to create a resume. Turn this in to me as an attachment to an email along with another attachment containing your paper by midnight on the specified due date.

1.) Start MS Word.   If you don't use MS Word, you will be assigned a score of zero points. MS Word is on the computers in the lab if you don't have it at home.  In particular, a few students have turned in assignments they created with MS Works and so got zero points unless they re-submitted the assignment using MS Word.  I know the difference between MS Word and MS Works can be confusing, but you have to be able to make these distinctions when using a computer, so make sure you are using MS Word.

2.) Select the “Office Button” then select "New". In the “New document” dialog box that pops up, in the left pane, scroll down until you see “Resumes and CVs” and select that. Select “Basic” and choose a resume style, then click the “Download” button in the lower right-hand corner of the dialog box. On the Macintosh, select the Project Gallery. Steps 2 and 3 actually depend on the version of the software you are using, so if you are having trouble, ask for help.

3.) On the template that comes up, click on the fields and replace information there with information that you make up.  It should be different than the information in other student's resumes so that I know each student edited their own file.  The information need not be your actual address, name, phone number, etc, as this will go on the web later.  Some people like the idea of putting their contact information on the internet, but others don't, and you don't have to if you don't want to.  You can make information up if you want.  Do a reasonably good job on this. I want at least three entries in the experience area.

4.) Save the file as "resume.doc" or “resume.docx”.

5.) Send me the resume file, along with the paper file by the due date for stage2, as attachments to email with the subject line formatted correctly.  Don't forget to send yourself a copy in the "Cc:" field of the email. Later you will send the completed paper.doc by the due date for stage2.