Formatting

Please make sure to use a Word document/other source of word processing program with one-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font. This assignment should be double spaced.

Important Materials to Review

Make sure to take a look at the Office tips in your Week 1 Navigation. Also, in case you missed it in your Week 3 Navigation, here is the demonstration video for the assignment

Instructions

In this assignment, you will need to demonstrate your skills with Word and Excel. You will present your materials in a Word document and provide some support with Excel.

Select something important, typical, or significant for/to you. You will want to measure something from your everyday life for this. You are going to practice some basic charts and copy/pasting into Word.

You should organize your paper to avoid extra spaces and orphan/widow control. This will be important for all following assignments that use Word!

Discuss something that you are comfortable with sharing in the format of a paper. You can consider how often you do something, record meals through your day, record the distance you typically walk. It’s important to have some kind of personal data to build on for this. You will see my overall video game playing habits in this video, for example.

This is a relatively open assignment, but it should be 1-2 pages (double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font) and should include the following:

• A description/background of what you have selected, your experiences with it, why you chose it
• At least one chart made in Excel and placed into Word (you can use Google, as long as you can convert them to the appropriate submission format) showing the behavior/collection/activity
• An explanation of the data/data visualization
  • Optional: Possible explanations for variation, if there is inconsistency
• Some kind of conclusion about your data/behaviors

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