Mock Thesis Research Paper

Assignment 4: Writing a Mock Thesis with Microsoft Word Your task in this assignment is to create a well-formatted mock thesis paper with Microsoft Word using dummy text found here. The final deliverable will be one Word document meeting requirements listed below. Save the document as a .docx file and submit it through Moodle. The purpose of this assignment is to use and learn some advanced word processing techniques. Requirements a) Title and subtitles with specifications as in the table below b) All headings and subheadings in the correct order and with formatting specified in the table below c) Footer page numbers in format Page # of #. No page number on the first page d) Margins are 2 cm on all sides e) Use text from https://www(dot)lipsum(dot)com/ to create filler text. Filler text should be formatted as specified in the table below f) An image with a suitable caption and sized as specified g) A table with an appropriate caption, filled in and sized as specified h) A Table of Contents (ToC) of your choice. It should automatically reflect heading changes i) A list of figures relevant to the document j) A list of tables relevant to the document k) Create a citation using Word and add a References section at the end of the document. Make sure the first citation is placed in the first paragraph, and the second, in the Conclusion and Future Work section of the document. They should be in the specified format l) Insert a hyperlink to the source of text used in this assignment as specified The accompanying pdf file contains a sample thesis document that you may refer to. Page 2 of 3 Step-by-step instructions The following instructions are for Word 2016 which is part of the Office 365 package that is free for York students to use and install. Launch a blank word document. Text: Copy the following headings into the text in the given order. Be sure to follow the heading levels indicated. Go to this website to grab some dummy text to add under each heading. You can only copy the text in Latin (default), English or French. Each paragraph should contain 5–6 sentences as shown in the example provided in the latter part of this specification. Section Style Number of paragraphs Assignment 4: Writing a Mock Thesis with Microsoft Word Title Author (your name) Subtitle Introduction H1 1 Related Work H2 2 Contribution H2 1 Evaluation Method H1 2 Procedure H2 1 Task 1 H3 1 Task 2 H3 1 Design H2 2 Results and Discussion H1 2 Conclusion and Future Work H1 1 Next, format the headings according to the following rules: • Title: Times New Roman, font size 22, dark colour of your choice • Subtitle: Times New Roman, font size 16, dark colour of your choice • Heading 1 (H1): Times New Roman, font size 20, dark colour of your choice • Heading 2 (H2): Times New Roman, font size 18, dark colour of your choice • Heading 3 (H3): Times New Roman, font size 16, dark colour of your choice • Copied text (Normal): Times New Roman, font size 12, default colour (black) To change the font, you can select the Home ribbon and click the Style depicting the Heading level, rightclick, and modify. The title, ToC, and list of tables and figures should be in this order on the first page of the document. Page 3 of 3 Table of Contents (ToC): Place the cursor on an empty line between the document’s title and introduction. Next, go to References > Table of Contents. Select one of the built-in templates to insert a table of contents on this page. Page numbers: To add page numbers, go to the Insert tab and click on Page Number > Bottom of Page. Change the page number so that it is in format Page # of #, where the first # is the current page number and the second # is the total number of pages. Margins: Go to Layout > Margins > Custom Margins. Make the margins 2 cm on every side. Image: Go to Insert > Pictures. Select an image and resize it to be between 9 cm and 13 cm in both (horizontal and vertical) dimensions. Give the image a caption by selecting it, going to References > Insert Caption. In the Caption textbox of the Caption dialogue, type in a colon (:) after “Figure 1” and type a description of the image. Table: Go to Insert > Table > Insert Table. Insert 6 rows and 3 columns. The top rows should have text headings while the other 5 should be filled with random numeric data. Give the table a caption following the same steps taken to caption the image. This caption should read: Table 1: (suitable text describing the table). List of Figures (& Tables): Place the cursor where you want to place the list. Go to References > Insert Table of Figures. In the Table of Figures dialogue, select Figure (or Table) from the Caption Label dropdown in the General group. You may leave other selections in the dialogue as they are or change them as required. Citations: Each report should have references. Word is very good at organizing citations. First go to References and in the Citations & Bibliography group, pull down the Style dropdown and select “APA Sixth Edition”. Next, place the cursor after the last word of any sentence in the first paragraph of the Introduction section and select Insert Citation > Add New Source. Fill out details of a book or article without leaving any of the fields blank. Insert a second citation at the end of the Conclusion and Future Work section to show the source of the dummy text. Details are: Title (name of webpage): Ipsum – Easy access to the Lorem Ipsum dummy text Author: Happel, Patrick Year: 2014 URL: https://www(dot)lipsum(dot)com Leave other fields (name of website, month, day) blank. Place the cursor at the bottom of the document. Go to References > Bibliography and select References. This will automatically create the reference list for you. Finally, insert a hyperlink to the webpage from which the text was copied by highlighting the URL (https://www(dot)lipsum(dot)com) in the reference list, selecting Insert > Link, then Existing File or Webpage (in the Insert Hyperlink dialogue). Make sure the Text to display in the dialogue is the URL highlighted.