WEBVTT 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.730 Hello. Today I'd like to talk with you a little bit about how you can make your 00:00:02.730 --> 00:00:07.319 term paper look professional. I'm assuming that you already have the basic 00:00:07.319 --> 00:00:14.040 body of your term paper filled in, and you can see an example here. The first 00:00:14.040 --> 00:00:17.699 thing you'll notice is that this term paper is lacking a cover page. Now, you 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:21.449 could create a cover page completely from scratch, but there's a much quicker 00:00:21.449 --> 00:00:27.210 way of creating a cover page -- and as an added bonus, not only is it faster, but it 00:00:27.210 --> 00:00:32.098 will also probably result in a much more professional-looking cover page. You'd go 00:00:32.098 --> 00:00:38.370 to the insert tab, go to cover page, and you'll see a number of designs already 00:00:38.370 --> 00:00:42.840 set up for you. If you don't like any of them, you can go to office.com to see 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:48.719 some additional ones. I'm going to choose the Facet design. One thing I noticed 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:54.000 right from the beginning is, my name is here already. How did Word know to put my 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.020 name there? Well, it knows that that's where the author or the creator of the 00:00:58.020 --> 00:01:02.039 document's name should go. and it knows my name because the very first time I went 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:08.430 into Word, it asked me. "What is your name," and I typed it in. So, here it's telling 00:01:08.430 --> 00:01:12.020 me I need to have the document's title. 00:01:13.070 --> 00:01:17.790 I don't want to have a subtitle for this particular paper so I'm going to right-click 00:01:17.790 --> 00:01:24.060 in this control, and I'll choose to remove content control. I'll do the same 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:29.670 thing for the abstract, but that's just actually going to move remove the body 00:01:29.670 --> 00:01:33.750 of the abstract, if you will, the main meat of it. It doesn't remove this text 00:01:33.750 --> 00:01:38.400 box that contains the word "abstract." To remove that, I'm going to click on the 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:44.369 border and just simply hit the "delete" key. I'll put in my email address as specified 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:58.189 and as quickly and as easily as that, I have a cover page. Now, the next thing I 00:01:58.189 --> 00:02:03.649 want to do is add some references to this term paper. Actually, what I should 00:02:03.649 --> 00:02:08.720 have done was -- as I was typing out this term paper, as soon as I made use of a 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:13.549 reference in the document, I should have added it to the list of references that 00:02:13.549 --> 00:02:19.069 Word knows about -- but I did not do that, so I'm going to rectify the problem 00:02:19.069 --> 00:02:23.329 right now. I'm going to go to the references tab in Word. I'm going to go to 00:02:23.329 --> 00:02:28.340 "Manage Sources." Now on the left side you'll see my Master Listing. This is my list of all 00:02:28.340 --> 00:02:32.269 of the references that I've created before, whether or not they are in this 00:02:32.269 --> 00:02:37.549 document. The references that I've told Word I am actually using in this 00:02:37.549 --> 00:02:41.599 document are in the current list. So I have one reference that I 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:46.430 already do have in here. I'd like to add some additional ones, so I'm going to click 00:02:46.430 --> 00:02:52.609 on the button "New" and I'm going to specify what sort of reference is this: 00:02:52.609 --> 00:02:58.609 Is it a book? Is it a journal article? Is it a website? I'm going to leave it at 00:02:58.609 --> 00:03:03.459 "website," but you'll notice if I do choose it change it to a journal article or 00:03:03.459 --> 00:03:11.900 book, the specific information that Word is requesting will change. So it is 00:03:11.900 --> 00:03:17.090 asking me the author. I've looked at the website, but I cannot tell who the author is, 00:03:17.090 --> 00:03:25.459 so I'll just put down "unknown." The name of the webpage-- and, since I'm just making 00:03:25.459 --> 00:03:33.680 this up on the fly, "web page name" the name of the website "website name," (and 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:38.180 again, in real life you'd be putting in the actual names of the web page and the 00:03:38.180 --> 00:03:44.359 website if you can find that information) the year, month and, day are when the site 00:03:44.359 --> 00:03:49.160 was created -- and again ,if you can find that information fantastic. If not, it's 00:03:49.160 --> 00:03:53.329 ok to leave a blank. If nothing else you will definitely be able to find the URL. 00:04:06.340 --> 00:04:13.000 These are the fields that are most likely to be needed; however, there are 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:18.699 additional fields that are possible and, especially if you cannot find when the 00:04:18.699 --> 00:04:22.960 site was created, these are the recommended fields. 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:27.729 You can at least indicate when you accessed the file, 00:04:27.729 --> 00:04:41.850 and I access this in the year of 2017, March the third, and I'll say, "OK." 00:04:42.690 --> 00:04:48.130 This now lets me know that not only has this reference been added to this paper 00:04:48.130 --> 00:04:53.340 itself, you can see it's also been added to the master list. 00:04:53.910 --> 00:04:59.860 I'll throw in one additional reference that I typed in at some 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:06.370 previous time. I'll select it from the master list, click on Copy," and then 00:05:06.370 --> 00:05:16.389 click, "Close." Now suppose this sentence actually were a quote that I had had 00:05:16.389 --> 00:05:23.620 verbatim. I want to have a proper citation for this quote, so I'll put 00:05:23.620 --> 00:05:30.370 the sentence in quotation marks. I'll hit a space and I'm going to go to 00:05:30.370 --> 00:05:37.000 Insert-->Citation, and I see here listed the three references that we told Word 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:44.160 are going to be used in this document. This was a quote from Smith. 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:56.670 Here, I'll have a citation with a quote from Unknown.Now let's go back to Manage Sources. 00:05:56.670 --> 00:06:01.260 You'll notice that the "Smith" and "Unknown" references have check marks 00:06:01.260 --> 00:06:05.400 beside them; that's letting me know very quickly and easily that I have 00:06:05.400 --> 00:06:11.730 actually cited these particular sources somewhere in my document, but I've not 00:06:11.730 --> 00:06:19.020 done anything with Joseph Browns' book, so I might decide 00:06:19.020 --> 00:06:24.300 at this point that I wish to add a footnote. Footnotes are going to show up 00:06:24.300 --> 00:06:29.220 at the bottom of the same page, and endnotes will show up at the end of the 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:35.040 document, but either one can be used. If you use footnotes, generally you use only 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.850 footnotes in the paper. or you'll use only endnotes in the paper; you're not 00:06:38.850 --> 00:06:41.760 generally going to be mixing and matching them. So I'll throw in a 00:06:41.760 --> 00:06:47.840 footnote here. Again on the references tab, I will click on Insert-->Footnote and 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:54.720 you'll see that a little superscript 1 shows up right where it had my insertion 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:58.680 point, and then down at the bottom of the page, I have a corresponding number 1. And 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:08.130 I could say something like, "See" and I'll put in this citation of Joseph Brown "for 00:07:08.130 --> 00:07:20.100 more information." So I now have my paper with the proper citations in it. Now I 00:07:20.100 --> 00:07:26.460 have to create my bibliography. I'll go to the end of 00:07:26.460 --> 00:07:33.210 the paper. Again on the references tab, I'll go into Bibliography, and I can see 00:07:33.210 --> 00:07:35.520 there are a few different styles that are available. 00:07:35.520 --> 00:07:41.160 I'll choose "Bibliography," and as quickly and as easily as that, the bibliography 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:48.750 gets generated. But now I have a problem. I realize, "Oh no! I've been using APA 00:07:48.750 --> 00:07:55.200 format. My teacher told me that I need to use MLA format. Okay this is going to mean a 00:07:55.200 --> 00:08:00.870 lot of changes in here." I can see I've got this is in the old APA 00:08:00.870 --> 00:08:06.720 format with the author's name and the year of publication. The bibliography is 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.750 in APA format. All the work that I'm gonna have to do 00:08:09.750 --> 00:08:16.400 to change it to MLA! I come to the Styles drop down list and change this to MLA. 00:08:16.400 --> 00:08:21.750 As quickly and as easily as that, everything's changed: the bibliography is 00:08:21.750 --> 00:08:30.360 now in MLA format, and you can see that the citations have also been 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:36.570 changed. No longer does it say "Smith 2016"; it just says "Smith." It's as quick and as easy as that. 00:08:36.570 --> 00:08:43.820 I'll change it back to APA, and again you can see how quickly the change is made. 00:08:43.820 --> 00:08:48.480 So the really nice thing -- there are several nice things about using the 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.560 Source Manager in Word (which you get to by clicking on Manage Sources) and 00:08:52.560 --> 00:08:58.040 putting in the citations in this way -- first of all, you only have to type in a 00:08:58.040 --> 00:09:02.430 reference one time you'll then be able to use it not only in the current 00:09:02.430 --> 00:09:07.320 document, but all subsequent documents. If you wind up in the current document 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.460 needing MLA format and subsequent documents need APA format, that's not a 00:09:11.460 --> 00:09:18.630 problem. You don't have to worry about all the nitty-gritty details of the 00:09:18.630 --> 00:09:22.950 style -- Where do I put parentheses, underlines, italicizations, periods 00:09:22.950 --> 00:09:25.620 verses commas ... you don't have to deal with all of that -- 00:09:25.620 --> 00:09:35.570 that's Word's headache. So you can see that if you know how to use Word's 00:09:35.570 --> 00:09:40.710 References tab and the Insert-->Cover Page, you can very quickly and easily make a 00:09:40.710 --> 00:09:46.130 professional-looking term paper. Thank you.