Karl Mauzey
Assignment #3
Date: September 3, 2008
Due: Week of September 8, 2008
Purpose: Practice retrieving and editing text.
Copy the text from below, and paste it into an new MS Word document. If this procedure puts a paragraph return after each line, you'll have to remove it. Your assignment is to make the changes listed in (c) below, and hand in a paper copy with all the changes completed correctly.
Apple Beginnings.
a. Open the Beginnings file, or copy from below.
b. Save as a new name (That is, the first thing is to save the text, so you keep a copy of the original.)
c. Make these text changes:
i. Capitalize the first letter of each word in the title, except the words as and in.
ii. Replace the period after year 1971 with a colon (:), and delete the period at the end of the title.
iii. Replace junior to with younger than.
iv. Replace immediately with at once.
v. Replace appeared with showed .
vi. Replace the second ability with strength.
vii. Type this paragraph after the first one:
But for Woz, the cement in the relationship wasn’t electronics. It was pranks. Jobs, he discovered, was another prankster.
viii. Separate the last two paragraphs with a blank line.
d. Proofread your work and make any needed corrections. Don't remove the blurb!
e. Choose File/Save to update your changes.
f. Print your work.
g. Quit MS Word.
The original text:
(In a table to show the parts.)
| Blurb |
The following
selection is from Fire In the Valley by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.
Osborne/McGraw Hill. This book is about the beginnings of the Apple Computer
and its two co-founders Stephen G. Wozniak ‘Woz’ and Steven P. Jobs. |
| Title |
the year 1971.
estimated as woz’s junior year in high school. |
| 1st para- graph |
“Though Jobs was five years junior to Woz, the two got along immediately. In addition to a common fascination with electronics, they shared a certain intensity, though they demonstrated it in different ways. Wozniak’s intensity appeared in his willingness and ability to dig deeper into an intellectual problem that anyone else. Jobs lacked this ability, but his intensity was one of ambition.” |
The original text:
The following selection is from Fire In the Valley by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. Osborne/McGraw Hill. This book is about the beginnings of the Apple Computer and its two co-founders Stephen G. Wozniak ‘Woz’ and Steven P. Jobs.
the year 1971. estimated as woz’s junior year in high school.
“Though Jobs was five years junior to Woz, the two got along immediately. In addition to a common fascination with electronics, they shared a certain intensity, though they demonstrated it in different ways. Wozniak’s intensity appeared in his willingness and ability to dig deeper into an intellectual problem that anyone else. Jobs lacked this ability, but his intensity was one of ambition.”