4.++Formatting+Essays+Effectively




 * //Focus://** Academic essays have their own formatting requirements.


 * //Time://** Approx. Cycle 5 To Cycle 6


 * //Content To Be Learned//**
 * The presentation of academic information in essay format is different from other forms of information presentation.**
 * 1) Why is it important to properly format essays and other academic materials?
 * 2) How do you most efficiently format essays?
 * 3) How do you ensure that your work properly balances being attractive with limiting printable pages?


 * //Skills To Be Learned/Reviewed//**
 * 1) Text style, size and placement
 * 2) Adding Headers/Footers
 * 3) Inserting Footnotes
 * 4) Inserting Page #s
 * 5) Adjusitng Margins to avoid Widows & Orphans
 * 6) Automatically adjusting Paragraph/Line Spacing
 * 7) Automatically changing case
 * 8) Inserting Automatic Page Breaks
 * 9) Inserting symbols (i.e. ¥ © ®)
 * 10) Tabs
 * 11) Inserting/Editing Bullets & Numbering
 * 12) Viewing Print Preview

//**Order of Learning Activities**//

1) Together as a class we go through step by step to learn the 11 skills outlined above. This is the document we will use for this: Please make sure you save it as //**6E/T Name Myths**//. 2) Students are given time to practice the skills on their own and make personal notes about how to do these things. To do this they will go through a checklist and try to format an essay on their own using as many of these skills as they can. The essay they will try format on their own is as follows:. Please save it as //**6E/T Name Addiction**//. While students go through this essay they should make step by step notes on how to do the various skills. To help them they can use the following table:. 3) In a test situation students have a limited amount of time to edit a document using these skills.