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    Hello. Today I'd like to talk with you a
    little bit about how you can make your
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    term paper look professional. I'm
    assuming that you already have the basic
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    body of your term paper filled in, and
    you can see an example here. The first
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    thing you'll notice is that this term
    paper is lacking a cover page. Now, you
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    could create a cover page completely
    from scratch, but there's a much quicker
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    way of creating a cover page -- and as an
    added bonus, not only is it faster, but it
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    will also probably result in a much more
    professional-looking cover page. You'd go
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    to the insert tab, go to cover page, and
    you'll see a number of designs already
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    set up for you. If you don't like any of
    them, you can go to office.com to see
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    some additional ones. I'm going to choose the Facet design. One thing I noticed
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    right from the beginning is, my name is
    here already. How did Word know to put my
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    name there? Well, it knows that that's
    where the author or the creator of the
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    document's name should go. and it knows my name because the very first time I went
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    into Word, it asked me. "What is your name," and I typed it in. So, here it's telling
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    me I need to have the document's title.
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    I don't want to have a subtitle for this
    particular paper so I'm going to right-click
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    in this control, and I'll choose to
    remove content control. I'll do the same
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    thing for the abstract, but that's just
    actually going to move remove the body
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    of the abstract, if you will, the main
    meat of it. It doesn't remove this text
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    box that contains the word "abstract." To
    remove that, I'm going to click on the
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    border and just simply hit the "delete"
    key. I'll put in my email address as specified
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    and as quickly and as easily as that, I
    have a cover page. Now, the next thing I
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    want to do is add some references to
    this term paper. Actually, what I should
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    have done was -- as I was typing out this
    term paper, as soon as I made use of a
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    reference in the document, I should have
    added it to the list of references that
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    Word knows about -- but I did not do that,
    so I'm going to rectify the problem
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    right now. I'm going to go to the references tab in Word. I'm going to go to
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    "Manage Sources." Now on the left side you'll see my Master Listing. This is my list of all
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    of the references that I've created before,
    whether or not they are in this
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    document. The references that I've told
    Word I am actually using in this
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    document are in the current list. So I
    have one reference that I
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    already do have in here. I'd like to add
    some additional ones, so I'm going to click
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    on the button "New" and I'm going to
    specify what sort of reference is this:
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    Is it a book? Is it a journal article? Is
    it a website? I'm going to leave it at
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    "website," but you'll notice if I do choose
    it change it to a journal article or
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    book, the specific information that Word
    is requesting will change. So it is
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    asking me the author. I've looked at the
    website, but I cannot tell who the author is,
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    so I'll just put down "unknown." The name
    of the webpage-- and, since I'm just making
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    this up on the fly, "web page name" the
    name of the website "website name," (and
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    again, in real life you'd be putting in
    the actual names of the web page and the
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    website if you can find that information)
    the year, month and, day are when the site
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    was created -- and again ,if you can find
    that information fantastic. If not, it's
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    ok to leave a blank. If nothing else you
    will definitely be able to find the URL.
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    These are the fields that are most
    likely to be needed; however, there are
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    additional fields that are possible and,
    especially if you cannot find when the
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    site was created, these are the
    recommended fields.
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    You can at least indicate when you accessed the file,
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    and I access this in the year of
    2017, March the third, and I'll say, "OK."
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    This now lets me know that not only has
    this reference been added to this paper
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    itself, you can see it's also been added
    to the master list.
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    I'll throw in one additional reference
    that I typed in at some
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    previous time. I'll select it from
    the master list, click on Copy," and then
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    click, "Close." Now suppose this sentence
    actually were a quote that I had had
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    verbatim. I want to have a proper
    citation for this quote, so I'll put
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    the sentence in quotation marks.
    I'll hit a space and I'm going to go to
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    Insert-->Citation, and I see here listed
    the three references that we told Word
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    are going to be used in this document.
    This was a quote from Smith.
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    Here, I'll have a citation with a quote
    from Unknown.Now let's go back to Manage Sources.
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    You'll notice that the "Smith" and
    "Unknown" references have check marks
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    beside them; that's letting me know
    very quickly and easily that I have
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    actually cited these particular sources
    somewhere in my document, but I've not
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    done anything with Joseph Browns' book, so I might decide
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    at this point that I wish to add a
    footnote. Footnotes are going to show up
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    at the bottom of the same page, and
    endnotes will show up at the end of the
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    document, but either one can be used. If
    you use footnotes, generally you use only
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    footnotes in the paper. or you'll use
    only endnotes in the paper; you're not
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    generally going to be mixing and
    matching them. So I'll throw in a
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    footnote here. Again on the references
    tab, I will click on Insert-->Footnote and
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    you'll see that a little superscript 1
    shows up right where it had my insertion
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    point, and then down at the bottom of the
    page, I have a corresponding number 1. And
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    I could say something like, "See" and I'll
    put in this citation of Joseph Brown "for
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    more information." So I now have my paper with the proper citations in it. Now I
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    have to create my bibliography. I'll go to the end of
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    the paper. Again on the references tab, I'll go into Bibliography, and I can see
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    there are a few different styles that
    are available.
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    I'll choose "Bibliography," and as quickly
    and as easily as that, the bibliography
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    gets generated. But now I have a problem.
    I realize, "Oh no! I've been using APA
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    format. My teacher told me that I need to
    use MLA format. Okay this is going to mean a
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    lot of changes in here." I can see
    I've got this is in the old APA
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    format with the author's name and the
    year of publication. The bibliography is
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    in APA format.
    All the work that I'm gonna have to do
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    to change it to MLA! I come to the Styles
    drop down list and change this to MLA.
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    As quickly and as easily as that,
    everything's changed: the bibliography is
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    now in MLA format, and you can
    see that the citations have also been
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    changed. No longer does it say "Smith 2016"; it just says "Smith." It's as quick and as easy as that.
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    I'll change it back to APA, and again you
    can see how quickly the change is made.
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    So the really nice thing -- there are
    several nice things about using the
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    Source Manager in Word (which you get to by clicking on Manage Sources) and
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    putting in the citations in this way --
    first of all, you only have to type in a
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    reference one time you'll then be able
    to use it not only in the current
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    document, but all subsequent documents. If you wind up in the current document
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    needing MLA format and subsequent
    documents need APA format, that's not a
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    problem. You don't have to worry about
    all the nitty-gritty details of the
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    style -- Where do I put parentheses,
    underlines, italicizations, periods
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    verses commas ... you don't have to deal
    with all of that --
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    that's Word's headache. So you can see
    that if you know how to use Word's
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    References tab and the Insert-->Cover Page, you can very quickly and easily make a
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    professional-looking term paper. Thank
    you.
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  • Revision 1 = provided subtitles for Lecture 1.2 of Prof. Scott Plous' Social Psychology course

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