How To Use Office 2007 To Write A Great Essay
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How To Use Office 2007 To Write A Great Essay
Essays are a fact of University life. Annoying, but tragically essential to your education and future career prospects. However, with the help of a couple of nifty features in Microsoft's new bits of kit, you don't need to be away from the parties for too long.
Step 1: OneNote
If you're sensible, you'll use something like OneNote during your lectures. It's basically a scrap book in which you can copy, paste, drag and drop all manner of text, graphics, charts, tables and whatever onto pages.
This way, all your ‘stuff' will be easily locatable and nicely ordered for plagiarizing directly into your essay.
Your work will basically be already done for you; all you need to do is rearrange things and make it sing with flowery prose.
Step 2: Templates
It turns out that the clever nerds over at Microsoft have pretty much done everything for you. Apart from the actual words, obviously.
Their new software comes with Templates, which set up all your bibliographies and citations and contents pages all for you, and SmartArt.
SmartArt is sort of like having a graphic designer in your pocket, only one that doesn't answer back or need paying or anything.
Step 3: Citations
Lecturers are all traditionally oh-so-pernickety about contents tables and bibliographies. It's like spotting an error in a book reference at the bottom of a page in size six font is the only meaning in their otherwise dull, humdrum lives.
Well, they're in for a shock and no mistake: you can now circumnavigate all that messy ‘tabbing' nonsense and auto-plonk your gloriously user-friendly bibliography directly onto the page.
It's all up in the References tab; simply select a style and click Insert Citation. Citation is what Americans call Quotes, just to be ‘special' and ‘different'.
You can now Add a New Source, and fill it in depending on what it is and where it came from. Magic!