Create a book!

Overview

You will create a book that will demonstrate your understanding of word processing, desktop publishing, web publishing and presentations. With all of the programs you will be expected to show that you understand how to find features and use them. Assessment will be based on your efforts to achieve the ASIJ the student learning outcomes. Note that this includes having quality products, evidence of your journey through your Tri-Class reflections, and ethically following intellectual property guidelines.

As you create your book, make sure that you have all of the elements in a book: Title page, Publication Page, Table of Contents linked to each chapter, Page numbers, header and footer information that tells the title and page number, etc..

Beginning

First, you must download the book of your choice in text format from Project Gutenberg. Don't know which authors to look into? Check the authors page.

The book must be multi-chapter with chapter headings and at least 50 pages when you are finished. If you are using a book of short stories, you will need to include several stories.

Read your book and choose one chapter to work on. For that chapter, you will create a minimum of two drawings and one photograph to illustrate that chapter. When you insert the picture in your book, you will add a caption for it and refer to the picture from the text using a reference callout, e.g. (figure 3).

Word Processing

Import the book into Microsoft Word and format it as a book. A book has

• a title page,
• publication page,
• table of contents,
• list of illustrations,
• page numbers in footers,
• facing pages, (i.e., different odd and even pages)
• Different information in the headers and footers on the facing pages.

Of course you will use features of Word to create these. You will import your illustrations using an appropriate format, caption them so they show up in a list of illustrations, and refer to them from within the text using field codes. If you are in doubt about what a book has, pick one up and look.

Confused? Need help? Figured out something that will help others? Post it on the CoWeb page for Word Processing or put it on your expert pages. Before asking me for help, see three people, talk to your expert, then post your question on that page. Once you get an answer, post a reply if it is not there.

Formatting

Since it's a text document you will have to format it, and the first thing you will have to do is find and replace all of the end-of-paragraph markers.  You then will need to apply styles.

Finished Product Checklist

Use the following checklist as a guide for your finished product.

• A minimum of 50 pages
• Title Page
• Publication Page
• Table of Contents generated from heading styles
• A minimum of five links in the table of contents
• List of illustrations generated from captions
• Chapter headings using appropriate heading style
• Each chapter beginning on a new page
• Defined style for body text
• Page numbers in the header or footer (Chapter 1 is page 1)
• Title and author on alternating pages in the header and footer
• 2 drawings you have created, scanned, and inserted appropriately in a chapter. (Note: you may have a friend help you draw, but it must be an original creation.)
• 1 photograph you have taken and inserted appropriately in a chapter
• Reference numbers for each image using Word features
• Captions for each image using Word features
• Because styles for publication pages, etc. vary, you should also know which book you used as a guide. (It might be a favorite book that you have read, or one you are reading.)

Assessment

The project will be assessed according to the Word Processing Assessment Guidelines.

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