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Word's ability to handle graphics is absolutely terrible. Whenever
you put in a graphic, insert the graphic from a file (don't paste it).
Make sure you uncheck "float over text". This makes the graphic act
like one big letter. In the image properties, resize it so that it
will fit within the page margins (the image oftens moves randomly if
it goes out outside the margins). Avoid using text wrapping or
cropping of the image.

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I'm writing a manual and would like to creat a sidebar. By sidebar I
mean that when I print front and back the sidebar stays on the outside
edge. The sidebar will have two uses. In the instructors manual it
will have notes and icons describing how to present the material. In
the students manual it will be blank space to make notes.

Using one of Microsofts tips
(http://www.microsoft.com/insider/word2000/articles/headside.htm), I
created a template with mirrored margins and made the outside margin
about 3" wide and then putting a text box in the header for both an odd
and an even page. This almost works but the only thing I need now is to
have every page with a different headers and footers so the information
in the text boxes won't be the same on every page. To do that I know I
can insert a section break but that will also make changes to the layout
of the document when I have to update the manual.

How to create a sidebar in microsoft word. I think.

Inserting a Column Break in Word

Inserting a Column Break in Word

Columns in Word will run continuously, down one side of the page, then to the top of the next column. If you want to stop one column in the middle of the page and have the next column start at the top of the page, just put your toothpick cursor in the column you want to break, maybe at the end of a paragraph. Then choose Insert, Break. Choose Column Break from the list; then click OK. Your next column will continue at the top of the page!

Professional Writing at Purdue University: Gantt Charts in Excel

Online Technical Writing: Proposal Planner

Online Technical Writing: Proposal Planner

Proposal Writing - A Practical Writing Guide

A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR WRITING PROPOSALS

Hi--
For class today I would like you to do the following:

Read this discussion of proposals:

Proposals

It's a pretty decent treatment. Your assignment will be similar to the "nurse's handbook" in the example above, which you should pay attention to.

You should write a proposal to create a manual. You are trying to convince your fictional or actual employer that the manual and topic are worthwhile and necessary. The elements of the proposal are included below. Should you choose to omit one or more of those elements, you need to write me a note explaining why and get my permission.

You should use the time in class Friday to coordinate with your group and begin drafting the proposal.

My email address is cranema@uvsc.edu

I will bring in some more samples on Monday to demonstrate some of the weirder sections. Hang in there!

Here is a rough look at the next assignment, which I am going to revise a little based on

your feedback:

This assignment sheet provides information regarding the preparation of the proposal for your semester project. You need to write an external proposal to your client, if you have a real client, with a copy to me. You will submit the proposal to me first, and after I have edited it, to your client. Those groups who do not have a client will supply the proposal to me alone.

Your proposal needs to include at least all these elements:

1. Title Page
   
2. Letter of Transmittal
   
3. Table of Contents
   
4. Executive Summary
   
5. Introduction and Statement of Purpose (Need)
   
6. Proposal (or Proposed Plan)
   
7. Qualifications and Work Experience
   
8. List of Materials
   
9. Page Layout
   
10. Estimated Cost or Budget
    
11. Task Breakdown
    
12. Project Schedule
    
13. Estimate of Success
    
14. Conclusion
    

Comments
Pay particular attention to the following points as you write your proposal:

• Make the document professional in all details.
  
• Try out your page layout for this document; make the document 10-14 pages long.
  
• Design your pages to be reader-friendly; use page headers and footers.
  
• Use graphic aids as needed for clarity. You must provide a Gantt chart for your
  
  project schedule, and a proposed document and page layout (describe and show).
  
• Write in formal, 3rd person objective technical style.
  
• Be clear, complete, and competent. Use Standard Edited American English.
  
• Write solid, well-structured paragraphs.
  
• Budget enough time to finish everything: revise, rewrite, change, proofread.
  
• Be consistent with final format (print entire manual from one source).
  

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For the Undecided group--some groovy mini-mobo case mods.

Today we'll look at an outline, work in groups, and respond to each other's outline.

4310_undecided_outline.doc

Place your responses here

Groups:

Badgers--building a house

1. Seryhan
2. Foster
3. Moylett
4. Jenkins
5. Evans
6. Protel

b. Grease Monkeys--automotive repair


1.Zaccardi
2. Snow
3. Gabbitas
4. Leavitt
5. Bishop
6. Ricks

c. Tile Slayers--laying tile


1. Jacobsen
2. Lee
3. Rogers
4. Robinson

d. Undecided--building a computer


2. Hawkins
3. Rhoton
4. Coletti
5. Talley
6. Sumpter

Online Technical Writing: Planning Reports--Outlining

Please post your rough, preliminary list of possible projects (1-4) here

Class Syllabus

Online Technical Writing: Online Textbook--Contents Online Technical Writing--a sketch of the field that we will refer to from time to time in class.

today in class

After I discuss the syllabus, I need you to write me an email, no greater than 250 words, which answers the following questions:


1. Why are you taking this class?

2. What is your experience, academic and professional, as a technical writer?

2a. What kind of access do you have to a computer with an internet connection?

2b. How comfortable are you with technology?

3. Technical writing is a broad area of study. Please indicate what percentage of the class work you would like to see spent on the following areas:

a. Professional and business writing: memos, reports, proposals and other corporate documents
b. Technical manuals: instructions, documentation, larger documents
c. Online documentation: web sites, help systems, portal development, large web projects

4. How do you feel about working collaboratively?

Testing.