LAB THREE-A

Introduction

2. Start your email in a third browser
    
3. If you didn’t save resources_yourlastname in the shared folder during the last lab, please do so now.

1. Introduce yourself to the Outlining tool in Word

1. Open sample-outline from our shared folder and follow its directions
    
   • check that the correct view is showing -- the Outline button at the bottom of the window should be selected

2. Create your own outline about a personal movie selection

1. Start a new, blank document in Word, and change to the Outline view by clicking the Outline button in the lower border of the window.  Using Save As, save the new document in your personal folder or on your flashdrive as outline_yourlastname
    
2. Begin typing the large divisions of your chosen film.  To show subdivisions of any section, type it in first.  Once any line is entered, you can demote it or promote it to a lower or higher level.

• don't get caught giving too much detail -- start with the broad segments of the whole movie (by location?  by time?  by major flashbacks?), then expand with the smaller segments within those larger ones
   
• create the outline to follow how the plot unfolds (not the story), as seen in sequence by the viewer
   
• decide whether you want to use the Outlining tool. If not, just write an outline using regular tabs or indents
   
• do as much as you can – but you can expand and finish it on your own afterwards
   
• if you can't remember character names, search for your movie in the International Movie Database at www.imdb.com
   
• you can use this outline as a starting point for your second paper, the synopsis

1. Write your last name on the whiteboard and put a check beside a name that hasn’t been selected

2. Get a classmate's paper
    
   1. In the shared folder, click on the review written by the student whose name you have selected and choose Save (not Open)

• you will be working on the original paper, not one that already has comments (i.e. look for the file with only one lastname)

2. IMPORTANT: save the document in your personal folder or on the desktop with your own name added at the end of the filename (review_writerlastname_yourlastname)

• This is a standard method of showing who has added material in collaborative writing. The most recent person is always at the end. Please take care to use the correct filenames – if you don’t, they will show up in the wrong place in the directory listing, and could get lost.

3. Prepare Track Changes for adding feedback

1. In Word, click the Review or Tools tab at the top, then click on the words "Track Changes", then "Highlight Changes", then have all the boxes checked, especially "Track changes while editing", and then click Options

• Depending on your version of Word, you may see a tab that says "Review" and a drop-down list that says "Show Markup".  Click Preferences to begin the next step.

2. Set the Options (or Preferences)

• for Insertions, confirm the choice is "Underline" and change the color to Blue
• for Deletions, confirm the choice is "Strikethrough" and change the color to Red
• for Changed lines, change the choice to (none)
• for Track Formatting, select no
• for Track Moves, select no
• for Use Balloons, change the choice to Never
• click on OK

3. Click on the Word menu, then Preferences, then Edit.  Look for "When selecting, automatically select entire word."  If there is a checkmark there, remove it and click OK.
    
   • In some versions of Word, you'd click on the Office button at the upper left, then on Word Options, then Advanced.
      
4. To turn Track Changes on or off at any time, click on the icon with the words "Track Changes"

5. You can switch back and forth between two views of the document (you'll see a box at the upper left that lists the current view) -- try "Final Showing Markup", and "Original"
    
6. Please don’t use the "New comment" feature (it’s not compatible with some versions of Word)

4. Open a sample document with feedback
    
   1. Open sample-feedback in the shared folder and scan it for ideas to use for your own feedback
       
5. Make suggested changes directly in the student document you have chosen
    
   1. Make insertions and deletions that you think improve the writing.  Comment within the text on what you think is written well and give specific re-wordings that might work better. Can the language be more efficient and direct? Try cutting words without damaging the meaning. IMPORTANT: you are not attempting to say that your suggestions are Right versus Wrong … you are offering an opinion in the clearest possible way, and the author is free to consider the change or ignore it.

• in every case, don’t point out an error or weakness without suggesting a solution (that makes your comments constructive and improves your own writing abilities)

• briefly explain why you are suggesting the change.  Add comments by typing directly in the text and surrounding them with [[ and ]] to make the comments easily visible. Please don’t use the "New comment" feature (it’s not compatible with some versions of Word)