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Additional Information For This Chapter

• APA Guidelines
• Center a Page Vertically
• Changing Font Size or Type Face (May take 10 seconds or more to load)
• Changing Page Margins
• Copying or Moving Text (May take 15 seconds or more to load)
• Create a Header
• Creating a forced new page (Useful for reference pages, after title page and abstract)
• Forcing a New Page and Keeping Text on the Same Page
• Formatting a Paragraph (Includes hanging paragraphs for APA references)
• Inserting a File into an Existing Document
• Mail Merge from an Access Database
• Page Views (Normal & print)
• When to Cite (Using other sources in your writing)
• Word Processing Definitions

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Helpful Websites For This Chapter

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• Cooperative Writing
• Readability
• Tutorials
• Writing (Grammar etc.)
• Writing Resources

Coooperative Writing

When you have to work on the same document or spread sheet, but may not be in the same location, problems arise. Try out the Google Docs. It's free, just requires that you create an account on google. (Added March 27, 2007)
https://www.google.com/

Readability

Health Literacy: Practical Tools for Improving Communication. A Power Point presentation that would be helpful in designing either Web or written pages in health care. (Added September 14, 2007)
http://www.wisconsinliteracy.org/events/healthliteracysummit07/download/Health Literacy Summit-writing workshop.ppt

Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test. An excellent description from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test

Flesch-Kincaid Readability Score. Scroll down to find how to use the Microsoft's version of the Flesch-Kincaid readability score.
http://www.rfp-templates.com/readability-scores/Flesch-Kincaid-Readability-Score.html

Readability Formulas. This site provides access to information about many forumalas for determing readability including the Flesch Kincaid Grade Level.
http://www.rfp-templates.com/search/for/Readability-Level-Definition.html

Short, Thomas. Readability of Educational Materials for Patients with Cancer (1995). Discusses readability of various cancer documents. (Added September 14, 2007)
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v3n2/datasets.short.html

Tutorials

These sites from University of Wisconsin Eau Claire provide an excellent tutorial for beginners to Word 2000 and XP. The only possible confusing factor is that they present multiple ways of accomplishing tasks, but this is made clear and should not be a problem.

For XP (2002)
http://www.uwec.edu/help/wordXP.htm

For mail merge and many other features in Word XP (2002) see the site from Malacalester College. Tutorials have diagrams and are well done. (Eac tutorial is a PDF File)
http://www.macalester.edu/cit/docs/windows/wordxp/

MS Word. These Microsoft sites provides steps for such tasks as using keyboard shortcuts, adjusting size of the document, customizing menus and automating tasks.

For XP (2002)
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/word2002/default.aspx

For 2000
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/office2000/default.aspx

Word MVP site. This site is suggested by most Word trainers. You can find book reviews and articles. The FAQs offer great help for many problems as well as helpful information. (Added August 31, 2005).
http://word.mvps.org/index.html

Writing

Brians, Paul. (1999). Common Errors in English. You have to do a little clicking to get to the meat of this site, but it is worth it if you are confused about which word to use, e.g. affect/effect If you scroll down, past the errors, there are more goodies, such as commonly misspelled words, grammatical errors such as ending a sentence with a preposition, and non-errors. (Added January 4, 2005)
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

This site from Purdue University provides links to many resources including general writing concerns, grammar, and professional writing.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Excellent information about common errors in writing written by a writing professor. Not only discusses errors, but offers ways to correct them. A must read if you care about your writing. (As a teacher I've seen many of these mistakes.)
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/1150/writing.html

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. There is very helpful information here. Check out the links from each section, such as revising. (Added March 3, 2004)
http://www.powa.org/

Strunk and White's Elements of Style. Yes, the entire book! (Added August 11, 2007)
http://www.bartleby.com/141/

his site has links to many items helpful in writing including libraries, encylopedias, thesuari, grammar, citations, quotations, and many, many others.
http://www.libraryspot.com/

Writing Resources

Search for a quotation. To find the source enter a few words into this Yahoo resource.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/bartlett/

Here you can search dictionaries, encyclopedias and Bartlett's Quotations. The links at this site are VERY busy and may refuse to load. Suggest accessing at non-busy times, early AM for the East Coast, evening for the West Coast.
http://bailey.uvm.edu/sage/dict.html

ARTFL Project: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition. (Note date!)
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/webster.form.html

Online Medical Dictionary. Clicking on a letter produces a vast page of choices. Note that each page is huge and requires a bit of download time. Once at the correct page it might be easier to find the word you want if you use your Browser's find function. (Ctrl+F) When you find the word, you can easily find definitions of words within the definition.
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/

The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server. Enter an acronym and search for its meaning.
http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym/index.html

Online References For This Chapter

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