...Using Word Processing Tools As some one who uses Microsoft word on a daily basis I felt as if I was very well aware of its capabilities, but after reading the provided material from this weeks readings I can say that there are a number of things that I was unaware of. For starters there are so many short cut keys that I was unaware of such as selecting ctrl + F in order to find a particular word in your document instantly. In addition the integrated screen shot feature that captures screen shot samples from the background of the word document. Another feature that I found most shocking was the ability to remove background images under the Pictures Tools / Format tab. Whenever I would want to edit a picture I would power up my complicated Photoshop software to accomplish such tasks, I did not know Microsoft word was capable of such complex editing. Another tool that I found interesting would the filter tool “artistic effects”. Be it that there are such apps like Instagram which allows you to do similar, it amazes me that Microsoft Word, a program that I would use primarily for documents is capable of such creative alterations. As I stated, I normally would use Microsoft word for my basics such as typing up a paper, letter, memo etc. But I never considered using Microsoft Office as software to create a full brochure or any graphic creation. It is clear now that exploring beyond just the basic tool commands and working with the more advanced features, Microsoft Word and...
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...Project Plan for Word Processing Upgrade Project Plan for Word Processing Upgrade 1.0 Overview The Information Technology (IT) Services department of Boardman Management Group has decided to enhance the company’s word processing capabilities at all of its’ Baderman Island Resort locations. Baderman Island Resort currently consists of three hotels, a convention center, a pro shop, two gift shops, four restaurants, and a spa. All business units are managed by Boardman Management Group but operate independently. The IT Services department has determined that there are three different versions of the Microsoft Word software application being used by Baderman Island Resort and as many operating systems. Their immediate goal is to standardize the current word processing capabilities throughout the company, which could result in an upgrade to the existing hardware configuration and operating system. Boardman Management Group has decided to outsource this initiative to Smith System Consulting (SSC) because they do not have the in-house technical expertise to determine the most cost-effective path forward. They want to make sure the new solution seamlessly integrates with their existing software applications with the least amount of impact to performance and productivity. They would also like to keep the downtime needed to implement the new solution to an absolute minimum to ensure the company can respond adequately to the demands of their guests and customers during the cut-over...
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...Unit WP2: Word processing software Assessment Scenario You work for the Marketing department of The Fruit and Veggie People Ltd, a company that sells organic, ethically sourced fruit and vegetable boxes. You are responsible for overseeing production of a newsletter that will be mailed to existing customers. You have been given an initial draft of the newsletter to edit and prepare for printing and mailing. The newsletter will be sent to customers on the first of the month, along with a cover letter. You have been asked to edit and prepare the newsletter, taking it from 1st draft to final draft ready for distribution. You must also make changes to the cover letter that will be sent out with the newsletter, and create a form for customers to fill in. Part 1: Entering and managing information (1.1, 1.2, 1.7) In this Part of the Assessment, you will need to apply knowledge you have gained in Session 1 and 2 of your WP2 Unit. 1. What types of information might be included in a newsletter? Please list at least 4 separate types of information. Images, numbers, tables, lines, borders, charts. Good. 2. Other than your keyboard, state two other ways that you can enter text and information into a Word document. Typing use original Microsoft Windows program “Speech Recognition” – to type into Microsoft Word usin your voice as command. You can use On-Screen keyboard, to select letters, and type using your mouse only. Good. You could also use...
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...New Administrative Assistant in the Research Branch Sue is an administrative assistant working in the research branch of a small, nonprofit management development firm located in Minneapolis, MN. The research branch is responsible for developing new management assessment and development products, and Sue's specific responsibilities include: (a) keeping track of the branch's $300,000 budget; (b) making your travel arrangements and providing you with graphics and word processing support; and (c) providing administrative support for the other four members of the research branch. As the lead researcher, you often travel over 200 days a year conducting executive training and selling the branch's management assessment and development products. In partial support of this busy travel schedule, the research branch has some of the most advanced word processing and graphics software available, the latest Apple computers and color laser printers. Sue has over 15 years of secretarial and administration experience, was selected from over 100 applicants, and has been in the position for 6 months. Sue's performance over the past six months has been less than stellar, and over the past month it has been completely unsatisfactory. Sue will often put in a full eight hour day, even overtime, but still not complete all of her job responsibilities without help from the other members in the research branch. For example, she has chronically been one month behind on the branch budget, and only seems...
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...[pic] [pic] IST COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE B.Sc. in Psychology Level 1 Academic Year: 2012-2013 Module: Research Methods Lab Report 4 The effect of Word Processing on Memory ability Tutor: Mary Christopoulou Student: Panagiotis Moschonas Submission Date: 25/3/13 The effect of Word Processing on Memory ability Many researchers have done experiments or had conducted studies about the memory and our ability to storage information inside our brain and recall them when we need them. We divide our memory in three “pieces” the short-term memory and the long-term memory and the sensory memory. This memory model was explained by the researchers Atkinson and Shiffrin 1968. First is the sensory memory, it can memorize things only for a few seconds. The visual system possesses iconic memory for visual stimuli like the shape, the size and the color of an object. Second is the short-term memory, in this case we can store some information for a longer period so that we can be able to use them for example we can memorize a telephone number long enough to dial it and use it, after...
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...opportunities for collecting different types of evidence Housekeeping – Windows • Use slides to explain basic principles • Work through activity in Chapter 2 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Word Processing • Use slides to explain basic principles • Work through activity in Chapter 3 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Spreadsheets • Use slides to explain facilities • Work through activity in Chapter 4 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Databases • Use slides to explain facilities • Work through activity in Chapter 5 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Research Techniques • Use slides to explain facilities • Work through activity in Chapter 6 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Health & Safety • Use slides to explain basic principles • Work through Chapter 7 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Legislation • Go through chapter 7 plus additional information on sample cases • Use slides to discuss: o Copyright o Data Protection Act o Computer Misuse Act • Complete sample test questions and discuss Sample test paper • Use sample paper in Appendix B or from the Payne-Gallway web site (to be marked by teacher/lecturer from answers provided on web 2&3 To demonstrate the importance of good housekeeping routines To introduce word processing techniques 4&5 6&7 To introduce spreadsheet techniques 8&9 To introduce database techniques 10 & 11 To investigate research techniques 12 To explain health & safety issues involved with the...
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...Smith Consulting Plan Joy Waters CMGT/445 October 10, 2011 Paul Stokes Smith Consulting Plan Boardman Management should hire Smith Systems Consulting for this project and give them complete control over the entire execution of the project, starting right from the analysis part to the final implementation of the project as Smith Systems Consulting is an expert in implementation of such software programs in organizations like Baderman Island Resort. To start the engagement with Smith Systems, Boardman Management should set up an initial meeting with the consulting team members and make them aware about their needs and requirements and expectations from the engagement, so that there is clarity on the expectations about the project as well as deliverable. This is important to ensure that there is clarity on expectations about the project between both parties and requirements of the project are well understood by Smith Systems Consulting. During this initial meeting, all queries and concerns can be resolved and agreement upon scope of the project can be finalized. After the engagement contract is signed, Boardman Management should assign a dedicated team to assist Smith's team in the implementation of the plan. This team will help consulting team members in securing cooperation from the employees, providing them necessary information and resources and will act as an interface between the organizational management and consulting team members. This is...
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...method is involved with several subskills like word recognition, morphosyntactic parsing, phonological processing, access and lexical recognition. The visual information from the text is required to gather and then use the processing of the structure and the meaning of larger syntactic untis, i.e. phrases or sentences. The top-down reading skills were considered to be additive or compensatory after the bottom-up processing is achieved. Moreover, second-language learners are required to have a fluent recognition of words before acquiring text-processing skills. Together with word recognition fluency, morphophonemic structure of words and phrases, bottom-up processing has shifted the teaching method of reading to young and adult second-language learners. For young school-age and older leaners, teachers are required to begin with teaching visual appreance of words, sound letter relationships and development of word recognition fluency before developing top-down skills. However, the second-launguage learners must be familiar with the reading fundamentals before benefiting from the top-down instruction method. Reading and Vocabulary In the 1970s and 1980s, the teaching of vocabulary was secondary to the teaching of reading. At present, it is widely agreed that vocabulary knowledge is key importance to the teaching of reading. According to Hu and Nation (2010), a second-language learners needs to understand approximately 98% of words of the texts. A second-language learners are...
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...Treiman Wayne State University Charles Clifton, Jr. University of Massachusetts Antje S. Meyer University of Birmingham Lee H. Wurm Wayne State University Acknowledgments: Preparation of this chapter was supported by NSF Grant SBR-9807736 to R.T. and NIH Grant HD18708 to the University of Massachusetts. To appear in A.F. Healy & R.W. Proctor (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychology, Vol. 4: Experimental Psychology. New York: Wiley. Treiman et al., Psycholinguistics, 2 Introduction Language comprehension Spoken word recognition Printed word recognition The mental lexicon Comprehension of sentences and discourse Phenomena common to reading and listening comprehension Phenomena specific to the comprehension of spoken language Phenomena specific to the comprehension of written language Language production Access to single words in spoken language production Generation of sentences in spoken language production Written language production Conclusions INTRODUCTION Psychologists have long been interested in language, but psycholinguistics as a field of study did not emerge until the 1960s. It was motivated by Chomsky’s work in linguistics, and by his claim that the special properties of language require special mechanisms to handle it (e.g., Chomsky, 1959). The special feature of language on which Chomsky focused was its productivity. Possessed with...
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...REPEATING TABOO AND NEGATIVE WORDS IN RSVP CAN CAUSE BLINDNESS. Warning: Repeating Taboo and Negative words in RSVP can Cause Blindness. Perception and Cognition Abstract The effect of emotional salience on perceptual processing was explored using the RSVP experiment paradigm at stimulus speeds of 100ms/frame. 24 students completed 80 trials of three word streams, each containing two target words. Target words were identical for the ID condition and different for the control condition. The words were divided into taboo, negative emotion, positive emotion and neutral words. Results showed that all ID categories showed more Repetition Blindness (RB) than the control condition and that taboo and negative emotion words generated more RB than neutral and positive words. Interestingly, neutral words demonstrated a higher RB than positive emotion words, possibly suggesting the salience of negativity over emotion. Method Participants A total of 24 students comprised of 15 females and 9 males, from an undergraduate second year psychology class took part in the experiment. The mean age was 28.8, and the ages ranged from 19-50. All participants first learned to read and write in English, and 21 also spoke English as their first language. Materials Participants used the lab computers to complete the trials. Each trial consisted of three words, which included the target words C1 and C2 and a filler word in between them. The target words were identical in the treatment...
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...predict questions, process information and paraphrase and review, are the five steps in this system. Preparing yourself before you read a text is key, because if you don’t have the right mindset going into reading, you most likely will not retain the information. Previewing is also helpful because going through the text and understanding key words before you read is a very good way to approach a chapter before you read it. You won’t have to stop and figure out what a certain word means, if you go over it before hand, which allows for smooth reading. Predicting questions helps because if you’re asking questions throughout the text, which means that you are engaged in what you are reading and you will be able to retain information easier. Processing information is one of the key steps in this system because if you aren’t processing what you are reading, its like you never read the material in the first place. Paraphrasing and reviewing in my mind is the most important step because if you can paraphrase what you read, that means you retained the material that you read if you can reflect on the information and put it in your own words. If you don’t review what you read you probably won’t recall the information come test time. If I use...
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...Language Structure and Processing This paper will discuss the four levels of language structure and processing. Which are known as phonemes, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. These four main components work collectively to create a meaningful communication between individuals. Language is the ability to understand both spoken and written words, and to produce meaningful words when someone speaks or writes. Language can be a complex skill set that encompasses countless difficult processes, such as biological, mental and social skills. First Level Phonology Phonology is the study of sound. These reverberations need to be recalled and understood appropriately according to the language. Phonemes create up words, which must be remembered and understood correctly according to the language. Words consist of sentences, which must be recognized and understood correctly according to the language. Sentences consist of words, which must be remembered and understood correctly according to the language. Phonology can also consist of hand signals, gestures or rhymes. Phonology is different from phonetics it involves the way sounds are used to deliver a meaning. Examples of Phonology In the English language sounds of speech is one example of phonology which is either a consonant or vowel. Phonemes are not actually spoken sound it is more of a representation of sound. For example the word goat. It has the O sound which can be got. Another example can be the word Bear it has the ER sound...
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...Language is a complex and dynamic system of conventional symbols used for thought and expression. Language can be expressed orally, through writing or pictured symbols, or manually (e.g., sign language) (Kaderavek, 2015). This can be divided into two categories: receptive language and expressive language. Receptive language is the ability to comprehend or understand language that is either read or heard while expressive language is the ability to use words, gestures, and writing to convey meaning and message to other people. His language skills were assessed using the Western Aphasia Battery-revised (WAB-R) adapted in Filipino. WAB-R is a diagnostic tool used to diagnose linguistic and nonlinguistic skills most frequently affected by aphasia....
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...unsubstantial, yet likely to be configured and orderly through numerous manners in which general ideas are configured through the different parts of a language (Papafragou, Li, Choi, & Han 2007). In addition, language can also be dynamic and constantly developing, therefore leading to the conclusion that such an intricate topic, such as language, is challenging to undertake, especially in explaining in more depth how it works in its entirety through the key components toward a better understanding. The main purpose of the key features of language, including arbitrariness, communications, and dynamics, as well as generative and structured divergences, is to facilitate the comprehension and translation of language itself. Associating words to stimuli is unsystematic in its development and is groundless in an unconscious attempt to form grammatically correct sentences utilizing phonological and syntactic rules through mental analysis. All languages can be communicated between individuals in many different forms, such as through verbal communications, written text, hand gestures, facial and body expressions, and even braille. There are unlimited possibilities to that of which can be communicated through the use of language....
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...opportunity of continuing the legacy of providing a comprehensive account of new theoretical and empirical contributions to reading research. Respectful of the cross-age approach that Pressley took in the last volume (account for progress of beginning readers, adolescent and adult readers— and along the way highlight some pedagogical processes that are salient at all levels, such as word recognition, vocabulary, and comprehension), we took a different approach. We decided to focus on reading as a fundamentally cognitive process that can be influenced by contextual forces at many levels, most notably for education, schools, and policy environments. Thus we deal with the fundamental psychological aspects of reading—word level processes (including subword processes such as phonological awareness and decoding, word reading, and vocabulary, with all of its entailments), and text-level processes as they are grounded in structures, genres, and disciplinary knowledge pursuits. After the account of these cognitive processes, we turn to a setting-level analysis, in which we examine word- and text level processes within schooling (including instruction in English language arts and the subject matters of history and science) and policy contexts. As we unpack each...
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