The Week of February 8

• Homework: Imagine you are applying for a position in a company, graduate school, law school, medical school, etc. Write a cover letter for your application. See Project 2 in Microsoft Word 97(Shelly, Cashman and Vermaat) for help (starting page 2.27). It should be your letter, not Caroline Louise Schmidt's! You can use the template they use in the book, but here are some additional suggestions:
  • The return address font is very small. Increase it.
  • You could include your phone number and email address as part of your return address. Or you might add them as a footer. For the latter, go to View/Header and Footer, type into the box designated "footer."
  • Word may recognize your email address as such and put it in blue and underline it. To eliminate this, highlight the email address, click on Insert and Choose Hyperlink (at the bottom). Then click the box Remove Hyperlink.
  • If your letter is short, you might increase the font of the entire letter, but I wouldn't go higher than 12 pt type.
  • Sign your letter.
  • For help on any topic in Word, click on Help, choose Microsoft Word Help, type the topic into the box and click on search.
  Hand in a disk with the Word file (LABEL IT!!!!) as well as a printed version by Monday Feb. 15.

• Reading: Discovering Computers 98 (Shelly, Cashman and Wagonner) 3.6-3.21 (See the slide show on the web or download the PowerPoint presentation.)

• Monday: Lecture on motherboard, RAM, ROM, etc.

• Wednesday: Word lab. Make a table like the one in Elements_in_Body.doc .

• Friday: Word lab. Take this rough draft and edit it using these instructions to make it look like this more polished document. (Text taken from BIOLOGY by Neil A. Campbell.)