Hello. Today I'd like to talk with you a
little bit about how you can make your

term paper look professional. I'm
assuming that you already have the basic

body of your term paper filled in, and
you can see an example here. The first

thing you'll notice is that this term
paper is lacking a cover page. Now, you

could create a cover page completely
from scratch, but there's a much quicker

way of creating a cover page -- and as an
added bonus, not only is it faster, but it

will also probably result in a much more
professional-looking cover page. You'd go

to the insert tab, go to cover page, and
you'll see a number of designs already

set up for you. If you don't like any of
them, you can go to office.com to see

some additional ones. I'm going to choose the Facet design. One thing I noticed

right from the beginning is, my name is
here already. How did Word know to put my

name there? Well, it knows that that's
where the author or the creator of the

document's name should go. and it knows my name because the very first time I went

into Word, it asked me. "What is your name," and I typed it in. So, here it's telling

me I need to have the document's title.

I don't want to have a subtitle for this
particular paper so I'm going to right-click

in this control, and I'll choose to
remove content control. I'll do the same

thing for the abstract, but that's just
actually going to move remove the body

of the abstract, if you will, the main
meat of it. It doesn't remove this text

box that contains the word "abstract." To
remove that, I'm going to click on the

border and just simply hit the "delete"
key. I'll put in my email address as specified

and as quickly and as easily as that, I
have a cover page. Now, the next thing I

want to do is add some references to
this term paper. Actually, what I should

have done was -- as I was typing out this
term paper, as soon as I made use of a

reference in the document, I should have
added it to the list of references that

Word knows about -- but I did not do that,
so I'm going to rectify the problem

right now. I'm going to go to the references tab in Word. I'm going to go to

"Manage Sources." Now on the left side you'll see my Master Listing. This is my list of all

of the references that I've created before,
whether or not they are in this

document. The references that I've told
Word I am actually using in this

document are in the current list. So I
have one reference that I

already do have in here. I'd like to add
some additional ones, so I'm going to click

on the button "New" and I'm going to
specify what sort of reference is this:

Is it a book? Is it a journal article? Is
it a website? I'm going to leave it at

"website," but you'll notice if I do choose
it change it to a journal article or

book, the specific information that Word
is requesting will change. So it is

asking me the author. I've looked at the
website, but I cannot tell who the author is,

so I'll just put down "unknown." The name
of the webpage-- and, since I'm just making

this up on the fly, "web page name" the
name of the website "website name," (and

again, in real life you'd be putting in
the actual names of the web page and the

website if you can find that information)
the year, month and, day are when the site

was created -- and again ,if you can find
that information fantastic. If not, it's

ok to leave a blank. If nothing else you
will definitely be able to find the URL.

These are the fields that are most
likely to be needed; however, there are

additional fields that are possible and,
especially if you cannot find when the

site was created, these are the
recommended fields.

You can at least indicate when you accessed the file,

and I access this in the year of
2017, March the third, and I'll say, "OK."

This now lets me know that not only has
this reference been added to this paper

itself, you can see it's also been added
to the master list.

I'll throw in one additional reference
that I typed in at some

previous time. I'll select it from
the master list, click on Copy," and then

click, "Close." Now suppose this sentence
actually were a quote that I had had

verbatim. I want to have a proper
citation for this quote, so I'll put

the sentence in quotation marks.
I'll hit a space and I'm going to go to

Insert-->Citation, and I see here listed
the three references that we told Word

are going to be used in this document.
This was a quote from Smith.

Here, I'll have a citation with a quote
from Unknown.Now let's go back to Manage Sources.

You'll notice that the "Smith" and
"Unknown" references have check marks

beside them; that's letting me know 
very quickly and easily that I have

actually cited these particular sources
somewhere in my document, but I've not

done anything with Joseph Browns' book, so I might decide

at this point that I wish to add a
footnote. Footnotes are going to show up

at the bottom of the same page, and
endnotes will show up at the end of the

document, but either one can be used. If
you use footnotes, generally you use only

footnotes in the paper. or you'll use
only endnotes in the paper; you're not

generally going to be mixing and
matching them. So I'll throw in a

footnote here. Again on the references
tab, I will click on Insert-->Footnote and

you'll see that a little superscript 1
shows up right where it had my insertion

point, and then down at the bottom of the
page, I have a corresponding number 1. And

I could say something like, "See" and I'll
put in this citation of Joseph Brown "for

more information." So I now have my paper with the proper citations in it. Now I

have to create my bibliography. I'll go to the end of

the paper. Again on the references tab, I'll go into Bibliography, and I can see

there are a few different styles that
are available.

I'll choose "Bibliography," and as quickly
and as easily as that, the bibliography

gets generated. But now I have a problem.
I realize, "Oh no! I've been using APA

format. My teacher told me that I need to
use MLA format. Okay this is going to mean a

lot of changes in here." I can see 
I've got this is in the old APA

format with the author's name and the
year of publication. The bibliography is

in APA format.
All the work that I'm gonna have to do

to change it to MLA! I come to the Styles 
drop down list and change this to MLA.

As quickly and as easily as that,
everything's changed: the bibliography is

now in MLA format, and you can
see that the citations have also been

changed. No longer does it say "Smith 2016"; it just says "Smith." It's as quick and as easy as that.

I'll change it back to APA, and again you
can see how quickly the change is made.

So the really nice thing -- there are
several nice things about using the

Source Manager in Word (which you get to by clicking on Manage Sources) and

putting in the citations in this way --
first of all, you only have to type in a

reference one time you'll then be able
to use it not only in the current

document, but all subsequent documents. If you wind up in the current document

needing MLA format and subsequent
documents need APA format, that's not a

problem. You don't have to worry about
all the nitty-gritty details of the

style -- Where do I put parentheses,
underlines, italicizations, periods

verses commas ... you don't have to deal
with all of that --

that's Word's headache. So you can see
that if you know how to use Word's

References tab and the Insert-->Cover Page, you can very quickly and easily make a

professional-looking term paper. Thank
you.