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COMP 1260 Winter Session 2014 3. Google Account: To create a document with Google Drive you will need a Google account. If, for any reason, you do not want to use your own name for this account, you may use a pseudonym. The assignment does not require you to list your Google ID. 4. Submit the assignment for marking.
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Assignments are due at 4:00 pm on Monday, March 3, 2014. Late submissions will be accepted, but there will be a penalty of 2% per hour applied, based on the number of hours late.
A SSIGNMENT O VERVIEW
As a fundraising effort in support of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), you are offering for sale replicas of important documents in the evolution of human rights. You will prepare a 6page document featuring samples of your replicas, demonstrating many word processing features (illustrations, drop cap, multi-column text, special characters, pull quotes, etc.) This document will enable you to try out many features of Word. Then you will import this document into Google Docs/Drive, which does not support many of these features. At this point you will reformat the document as well as you can to make it attractive, though simplified. You will also prepare a cover letter, introducing your effort to supporters.
Assignment 2 difficulties later; it is often better to type your letter in a simple blank document. There should be a date field, and it should be one that automatically shows the current date. You must fill in full addresses on the letter (but you may use a fabricated address). In the body you should make a bulleted list of the replicas in your sampler. Your page should have a vertical alignment of Center.
What is a Cover Letter? Never send anything with several pages to a busy person without a cover letter. People like professors, employers, agents, executives, etc. are typically quite busy and they will not take the time to read anything longer than a page or two unless they see some benefit in doing so. The purpose of the cover letter is to give the recipient a reason to read the attachment, whether it is a rsum, a proposal, a manuscript, or anything else of some length. This page should not have text in either the header or footer. However the header should have your QR code from Assignment 1 in the top right corner of the page.
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Assignment 2
Use four columns and left justification for text on this page, but have a major heading that spans the entire top of the page. Use one-inch margins on all sides on every page of the document. Use Normal style for your font on this page. Adjust the style (either through Themes, or by changing the style directly) so that it uses 11-pt text. Either the Normal style should have a serif font and the Heading styles should use sans serif, or vice versa. That is, headings and body text should not use the same type of font. You must have at least 3 subheadings on the page (the sample document has 7). Insert an appropriate image between columns 2 and 3, using Tight Text Wrapping. Be sure to add where you obtained the image to your References, and also be sure it is licensed for reuse. Use a drop cap on the initial paragraph of text. The drop cap should be in the document margin. Put the name of the document into the header, centred and italicized (on pages 3, 4 and 5). Insert a shape into the header as a background. Use a textured fill to give the page a parchment
look. Make sure the shape fills up the entire page. Put the page number, starting at page 1 on this page, in the footer. Use the same footer on all the pages from here on.
Assignment 2 the page with Wrap set to Behind Text. Add the image source to your list of References. Add a Sidebar to the page. Add some text to the sidebar, which may be actual text from your document, or some description of the document. Use at least one special character (accented characters, for instance, or characters in another language) into the text, and make a footnote at that location to point it out.
Assignment 2 Under the table, prepare another copy of the same table, except this time use tabs instead of a formal Table to line up the columns. In both cases, line up the prices using a decimal tab.
COMP 1260 Winter Session 2014 click on it in Google Drive online and choose to share it. Put the link to the Google Doc as a comment in your submission in D2L. 5. Submit the Assignment There will be a period of about a week before the due date (see the first page) when you can submit your assignment. Do not be late! Log in to www.umanitoba.ca/D2L and use the DropBox feature to upload your assignment as a .docx file. Files other than .docx will either receive a grade penalty or will not be graded. Also remember to include the link to your Google Doc as a comment. End of Assignment 2
G OOGLE D RIVE
Google Drive has several Google Docs applications, including a word processor. When you are finished the Word document, perform the following steps. Create a Google account as described on page 1. Put a copy of your Word document onto your Google Drive, and open it in Google Docs, which will attempt to make sense of the formatting. Reformat atit in Google Docs to try to retain the sense of the original. It is OK if not all the images are present. It is OK if you do not have drop caps. It is OK if all the pages are the same size and in portrait orientation. Keep the number of pages the same. Try to fit everything on, but if that is not possible, then you can remove some text. The marker will check for a 6 page document, with the cover letter intact, a table of contents, three pages with text and images from the appropriate sources, a bibliography, and two sets of pricing tables, with contents lined up. To enable the marker to see this document, rightPage 5 of 5