Worksheet: Connecting, Email, Listservs, Word Processing (Homework Version)

(1) E-MAIL ASSIGNMENT: RECEIVE AND SEND A MESSAGE (Begin in Lab & Complete as Homework)

·    Activate your University at Albany email account. (See the related handout.)

·    Subscribe to SISP-L, MPA or MPP list. ( See the related worksheet)

·    Send the first message that you will receive from the list to the e-mail address that the instructor gave you during the lab session.


(2) WORD PROCESSING ASSIGNMENT #1 (Begin in Lab): FORMAT A MEMO (Refer to the Word Formatting Guide)

Download and save the example text file (refer to the related worksheet). Open the text file in your word processor, make changes necessary to format this text file so that it looks like this linked memo. (We will work on this assignment in the lab.)

(3) WORD PROCESSING ASSIGNMENT: WRITE A RÉSUMÉ

Use your word processor to build and print a one-page résumé for yourself in the same form as the one found in the Resume Writing Guide (that is, the same basic structure and the same sort of format of the text).

This is a word processing task designed to exercise your understandings of how to get your word processor to format things for you. Please don’t just hand in your own résumé typed in some existing format; build a new one, or part of one (up to one page) in the form of this example. The example is given not as a great example of résumé structure, but as a simple but illuminating set of formatting puzzles. You should be able to type the main part of the résumé with a single “ruler” governing the placement of left and right margins and the indent margin (first line of a paragraph). Note in particular that the text should wrap automatically to the indented left margin within the paragraphs. You would never want to create this sort of format by putting tabs in at the beginning of every line - changing fonts or page size or even simply the you print it on could mess up alignment if you try to format with tabs or spaces at the beginning of lines.

Print out and hand in your results. If you have not yet made a real résumé for yourself, you might save this document and work on turning it into an attractively formatted and informative statement you can use professionally. The Internship Office (Milne 108) has good guidelines and examples for résumés.

(4) COMBINED E-MAIL & WORD PROCESSING ASSIGNMENT (Optional) (Refer to the Attachment Guide)

After you send your first message to the instructor (see assignment 1), you will receive a reply with a text file attached. Detach this file from your e-mail, open it with your word processor, and format it. Attach the finished document file to a message and send it to the instructor.