Teaching research and composition with Microsoft Office Word 2003
Updated: February 23, 2007
Productivity tutorial
Microsoft Office Word 2003 offers customizable features that support the steps of the writing process: prewriting, composition, revision, and publication. Office Word 2003 also contains tools that enable the collection and assimilation of research data into your students' writing. Download this tutorial to learn to use the powerful tools in Word 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to facilitate research, composition, and collaboration.
| • | Step-by-step instructions help you learn to use these tools to write, revise, and publish research documents. |
| • | Detailed teacher tips in every chapter make it easy to help students learn these helpful writing and research skills. |
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Tutorial information
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Instructional level | | • | Intermediate user | | • | Advanced user |
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Curriculum areas | | • | Teacher productivity | | • | Classroom management | | • | Teamwork and collaboration | | • | Writing and research skills | | • | Technology |
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Software required | | • | Microsoft Office Word 2003 |
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Objectives
Learn how Word 2003 supports:
Research—Word 2003 contains new, integrated research functionality that gives your students access to powerful Web-based reference materials.
Outlining—For some writers, outlining as a prewriting activity helps guide generative work. For others, outlining later in the writing process helps give a sense of the emerging shape of a composition. Both methods are supported by Word 2003.
Version Control—The ability to save and retrieve multiple versions of a composition within a single document provides support for prewriting activities, and for writing assignments that require students to go through multiple drafts.
Tracking Changes and Adding Comments—New peer- and mentor-review features allow a document to be edited and annotated by many reviewers. Comments from various reviewers are indexed by color and labeled with the reviewer's name. The document's author decides which changes to retain and which comments to act upon, as the composition evolves through its revisions.
Inline Discussions and Shared Workspaces—With the Internet integration of Word 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services, your peer- and mentor-review communities can be widely distributed. Documents can become Web pages or can (with support from Windows SharePoint Services) host network-based threaded discussions. Documents published to Shared Workspaces can be edited directly in Word 2003, where comments and suggested revisions can be addressed within the composition.
Tutorial outline
| • | How Word can help
Find out how Word 2003 can support and enhance process-oriented writing and research. |
| • | Before you begin
Become familiar with the collaborative tools of Word 2003. |
| • | Touring Word 2003
Become familiar with the features and screen of Word 2003. |
| • | Creating a document
Follow the steps in the sample workshop to learn how to create a document. |
| • | Using Views and Research
Learn how to switch to Web Layout, Outline View, the Research service pane, and Document Map to help you take your document through the writing process. |
| • | Using document statistics
Learn how to manage the overall content of your writing, from word count to reading level. |
| • | Sharing your documents
Learn how to create a shared workshop and how to protect documents. |
| • | Using version control
Learn how to use version control and how to track changes that you make in documents. |
| • | Using comments
Learn how to add and edit comments in documents. |
| • | Enhancing collaboration
A process-oriented approach to writing is also a collaborative, people-oriented approach. Learn how to send a document to a SharePoint site, send it for review, and save it as a Web page. |
| • | Using Web discussions
Learn how to invoke a Web discussion to collect the input of your reviewers, regardless of location, and keep your discussion current using subscriptions and notification. |
| • | Getting help
Additional information about Word 2003 and writing centers is available from several sources. Get resources for writing, answers to questions, product support online, and news about product updates. |
Web links to tutorial and other resources
Word 2003 Tutorial (1.6 MB Microsoft Word file)
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