/ Wentworth Institute of Technology Name:
Department of Electronics and Mechanical Date:
ELMC100: Introduction to Engineering Technology

Lab 3: Co-Authorship

Purpose:

The purpose of this lab is to learn how to coauthor and collaborate a paper with your colleague or your lab partner. Students will be acquainted with Microsoft Word features during this lab.

Instructions:

You will write a two-page manual explaining how write a technical paper using library resources. This manual should apply all the skills and resources that were taught in class today along with an example of each resource. After completing the manual, print your work and give the softcopy of your work to your partner and get your partner’s work in return. Start correcting your partner’s work and make suggestions and comments using Microsoft Word track changes (Tools  track changes  highlight changes, check “track changes while editing). You can insert comments for your partner using insert menu. After editing your partner’s work, give your partner the edited version of his/her work, and ask your partner for the edited version of your work Print the edited version of your work. You will be the master author, and you can accept his/her changes or reject them by right clicking on the changes.

How to Track Changes Instructions: This information is contained in Microsoft Help. When you open up Word, from the main menu pull down on Help and click the Content tab for a list of features for Word. About half way down the list is Sharing Information with Other Users and Applications. Click on the + sign to expand this choice. Now click on Revising Documents and of the choices presented, click on Insert comments and keep track of changes. This brings up some more choices on the right. Several choices are listed so click on Learn about adding comments and keeping track of changes. This article will give you an overview of what this document management tool does. There are five other choices listed that you should read so that you can manage this tool properly. Please note that a comment is different from a change. We want to know how to keep track of changes and how to incorporate them. Keep in mind that this can be done by email. The Editor sends out an initial version to each of the team members. They send back to the Editor, their revisions.

Submit:

  1. The first draft
  2. The edited version
  3. The final draft