Introduction
The objective of this week is to be able to:

• Write a document in WORD which demonstrates that you have understood the basics of character and paragraph formatting appropriate to an academic document.
• Can create footnotes for references, create a bibliography and use WORD's spellcheck facility.
• Your are reminded that this week's work is assessed, and indeed your exercise is directly solely to the production of your assignment.

Resources
As for last week's introductory exercises.
The department's style guide and study skills guide.

Exercise and Assignment
There is considerable flexibility here about the work that can be submitted for this assignment. The following are acceptable:

• A hard copy (i.e. paper) of an essay you have just submitted for one of your unit's, providing it is word-processed and incorporates all of the features detailed below in the Checklist.
• An essay plan of at least four pages when double-spaced, again providing it is word-processed, has some sections of continuous, finished prose and incorporates all of the features detailed below in the Checklist.
• In addition, you are required to submit your backup disk with your essay on it, the file to be named according to the same system you used for assignment 1 in week 4. Thus Gordon Brown's second assignment would have the filename gobr07.doc (07 indicating that it is the assignment for week 7). NB You will fail this assignment if the filespec on your disk is not correct.

Checklist
Your document must incorporate all of the following features to a satisfactory standard:

• References in footnotes, correctly formatted according to how your unit tutor wants them.
• Bibliography, again formatted according to how your unit tutor wants it presented.
• Sufficient characters embolden and italicized to demonstrate that you know how to use these features correctly; correct use of capital letters and punctuation.
• Correct spelling of your document.
• Neatness of document layout.
• YOUR NAME ON THE DOCUMENT.

FINALLY, your assignment is to deposit your backup floppy disk (just the disk, not in its box) so that your progress can be assessed. Please make sure that you get your disk to Roger Middleton's pigeonhole on time and that it is properly labeled, both electronically and with the sticky label on the disk. Assuming that your assignment passes you will be able to collect it the following Monday from the same place.

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(c)R. Middleton 1997. Last modified 4 September 2000.