RESEARCH PAPER WITH REFERENCES AND

SOURCESMICROSOFT WORD CHAPTER 2

THE PAPER

• RESEARCH PAPER – DOCUMENT USED TO COMMUNICATE THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH FINDINGS

• RESEARCH PAPERS NORMALLY FOLLOW A DOCUMENTATION STYLE THAT DEFINES RULES FOR CREATING THE PAPER AND CREDITING SOURCES

• POPULAR STYLES• MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA)

• THE STYLE USED HERE AT WHS• MLA IS WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THE CHAPTER

• AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)• CHICAGO

MLA STYLE

• PARENTHETICAL REFERENCES – AUTHOR REFERENCES PLACE IN PARENTHESES WITH PAGE NUMBERS TO DIRECT READERS TO REFERENCES INFORMATION

• WORK CITED – REFERS TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF SOURCES AT THE END OF THE PAPER

• CONTENT NOTES – THESE ARE USED TO ELABORATE ON POINTS WITHIN PAPER OR TO DIRECT READER TO NOTES ABOUT A SOURCE: USES A SUPERSCRIPT FONT TO IDENTIFY

STYLES

• A STYLE IS A NAMED GROUP OF FORMATTING CHARACTERISTICS INCLUDING FONT AND FONT SIZE

• WORD OFFERS A VARIETY OF STYLES TO CHOOSE

• NORMAL STYLE IS DEFAULT IN WORD WHICH USES 11PT CALIBRI FONT• DEFAULT IS WHAT THE SETTINGS

ARE AT WHEN THE PROGRAM IS STARTED WHEN FIRST PURCHASED

• A USER CAN CHANGE THE DEFAULT AT ANY TIME

SPACING• LINE SPACING IS THE

AMOUNT OF VERTICAL SPACE BETWEEN LINES OF TEXT IN A PARAGRAPH

• PARAGRAPH SPACING IS THE AMOUNT OF SPACE ABOVE AND BELOW A PARAGRAPH

• REMOVE PARAGRAPH SPACING HERE

• MLA REQUIRES THE USER TO DOUBLE SPACE (DS) THE ENTIRE PAPER

HEADER / FOOTER• HEADER IS TEXT AND/OR GRAPHIC THAT PRINTS AT THE TOP OF EVERY PAGE

OF A DOCUMENT• FOOTER IS TEXT AND/OR GRAPHIC THAT PRINTS AT THE BOTTOM OF EVERY

PAGE OF A DOCUMENT• CLICK THE INSERT TAB TO GET TO

THE HEADER/FOOTER OPTION ORDOUBLE CLICK THE HEADER/FOOTER AREA IN THE DOCUMENT

• MLA STYLE REQUIRES A RIGHTALIGNED HEADER WITH LAST NAMEAND PAGE #

HEADER VS HEADINGFOOTER VS FOOTNOTE

• A HEADER GOES AT THE TOP OF A PAGE AND REPEATS ON EVERY PAGE

• A HEADING IS PLACED AT THE TOP OF THE FIRST PAGE ONLY

• A FOOTER GOES AT THE BOTTOM OF A PAGE AND REPEATS ON EVERY PAGE

• A FOOTNOTE CAN GO ON ANY PAGE AND REFERS TO TEXT ON THAT PAGE

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RULERS AND INDENTS

• TO VIEW RULER BARS (HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL) CLICK VIEW AND CHECK THE RULER BOX• RULERS ALLOW THE USER TO SET MARGINS, TABS, AND INDENTS

• FIRST LINE INDENT – INDENT ONLY THE 1ST LINE OF EVERY PARAGRAPH• TOP TRIANGLE ON THE LEFT IS FIRST LINE INDENT• BOTTOM TRIANGLE IS FOR HANGING INDENT• BOTTOM SQUARE IS THE LEFT MARGINSet 1st line indent

here

Set left margin here

AUTOCORRECT

• WORD AUTOMATICALLY CORRECTS MANY COMMON TYPING, SPELLING, GRAMMAR, AND CAPITALIZATION ERRORS AS THE USER TYPES

• IF A WORD IS CORRECTED AUTOMATICALLY A SMALL WHITE BAR W/ A BLUE OUTLINE APPEARS

• IF YOU ARE USING A MOUSE, POSITION THE MOUSE POINTER IN THE TEXT AUTOMATICALLY CORRECTED BY WORD TO DISPLAY A SMALL BLUE BOX BELOW THE AUTOMATICALLY CORRECTED WORD

• POINT TO THE SMALL BLUE BOX TO DISPLAY THE AUTOCORRECT OPTIONS BUTTON

CITATIONS

• CITATIONS ARE THE IN-TEXT REFERENCES THAT MLA STYLE USES FOR SOURCES. THE FULL SOURCE WOULD THEN BE AT THE END OF THE PAPER ON THE PAGE CALLED WORKS CITED

• THE CITATION BUTTONS ARE LOCATED ON THE REFERENCE RIBBON IN CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY GROUPING

• MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE THE APPROPRIATE STYLE BEFORE CREATING YOUR CITATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, OR WORK CITED

FOOTNOTES / ENDNOTES• FOOTNOTES ARE NOTES PLACED AT THE BOTTOM OF A PAGE• ENDNOTES ARE NOTES PLACED AT THE END OF A DOCUMENT• FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT DETAIL POINTS

DISCUSSED IN THE PAPER• A NOTE REFERENCE MARK IS USED TO SIGNAL THE PRESENCE OF A FOOTNOTE

OR ENDNOTE• A SUPERSCRIPT IS USED AS THE MARK (EX: 1)

• WHEN A FOOTNOTE IS INITIALLY INSERTED BY WORD IT IS FORMATTED IN FOOTNOTE TEXT STYLE WHICH DOES NOT ADHERE TO MLA STYLE – MLA STATES IT SHOULD MATCH THE REST OF THE PAPER

PAGE BREAKS

• SOFT PAGE BREAK – A PAGE BREAK THAT IS INSERTED AUTOMATICALLY BY WORD WHEN ONE PAGE HAS BEEN FILLED• SOMETIMES CALLED AUTOMATIC PAGE BREAK• CAUSES REPAGINATION – WORD DECIDES WHAT LINES GO ON WHAT PAGE

• HARD PAGE BREAK – A PAGE BREAK THAT HAS BEEN FORCED INTO THE DOCUMENT BY THE USER• SOMETIMES CALLED A MANUAL PAGE BREAK• BUTTON IS LOCATED ON THE INSERT RIBBON IN THE PAGES GROUP

WORK CITED

• MLA STYLE USED A WORK CITED PAGE TO LIST THE SOURCES THAT ARE DIRECTLY REFERENCED IN THE PAPER• THIS IS A SEPARATE PAGE FROM THE PAPER ITSELF

• APA USES BIBLIOGRAPHY – NOT WORK CITED

MORE ABOUT WORK CITED

• WORD WILL INSERT A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST – SMALL CHANGES WILL NEED TO BE MADE TO MAKE IT FOLLOW MLA STYLE

MORE ABOUT INDENTS

• REGULAR INDENT – HIT TAB, INSERTION POINT MOVES .5 INCHES• USED AT THE BEGINNING OF MOST PARAGRAPHS IN FORMAL WRITING

• HANGING INDENT – THE FIRST LINE OF A PARAGRAPH HANGS TO THE LEFT OF THE REST OF THE PARAGRAPH.EX:

HANGING INDENTS

• A HANGING INDENT IS SET ON THE HORIZONTAL RULER BAR

First Line Indent – by setting this to a given measurement every line will be indented when the user hits enter

The hanging indent marker is the triangle pointing up. Click and drag to set at a given measurement

The box below is the left indent and will move when the hanging indent is set

ODDS AND ENDS• PROOFREADING – LOOKING FOR GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING ERRORS• CLIPBOARD – TEMPORARY STORAGE THAT HOLDS 24 ITEMS COPIED FROM ANY

OFFICE PROGRAM• COPYING – THE PROCESS OF PLACING ITEMS ON THE OFFICE CLIPBOARD,

LEAVING THE ITEM IN THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT• CUTTING – REMOVES ITEM FROM DOCUMENT AND PLACES IT ON CLIPBOARD• PASTING – PROCESS OF COPYING AN ITEM FROM THE CLIPBOARD INTO THE

DESTINATION DOCUMENT

MORE ODDS AND ENDS• SYNONYM – A WORD SIMILAR IN MEANING TO THE CURRENT WORD

BEING USED• EX: LIKE / ENJOY

• THESAURUS – A BOOK OF SYNONYMS

THAT’S IT• DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS ARE AT A MINIMUM IN THIS

CHAPTER• PLEASE REMEMBER TO READ BETWEEN EACH STEP AS YOU

ARE COMPLETING THE WALK THROUGH