1 Digging,” by Seamus Heaney (1966) Between my fi.docx

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“Digging,” by Seamus Heaney (1966)
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep

To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.
My grandfather cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, going down and down
For the good turf. Digging.
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.
MLA Citation
Heaney, Seamus. “Digging.” Death of a Naturalist, Faber, 1966.
pp. 12.
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Week 2 Project Tips

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Computer and Internet Literacy
©2018 South University
2 Week 2 Project Tips
Week 2 Project
Week 2 Project Tips
Below are some tips to help you start your Week 2 Project. The
tips show you,
step by step, how to create a flyer for your graduation party for
your project in
Microsoft Office Word. This includes creating a table with
evaluation facts as
instructed in the Week 2 Project Graduation Party Location,
adding a page
number in the footer, adding a header, composing a brief
paragraph, and
applying some formatting elements.

The graduation party locations and evaluation facts shown here
are just examples
to illustrate the type of information you need to create for your
own evaluation
table. You are expected to come up with your own graduation
party location
options, do your own evaluation of the options, and compose
your own
evaluation analysis and decision in your own words. You cannot
reuse the
locations, facts and evaluation provided here in this example.
The tips also show you how to work with bulleted or numbered
lists, bolding and
centering the table headings, changing the font, point size and
color of your text,
coloring the background of your page, and adding a border to
your page. There
are many other effects that you can apply to your table, by
selecting it, clicking on
the context specific tab Design, and working with Table Styles.
You may want to
experiment with different table design features as you explore
creative ways to
make your document unique.
Finally, the sample Word document in the visuals below is not
meant to show a
completely finished assignment deliverable. For your own
deliverable, you may
want to decorate your document with original formatting
features to create
interesting visual effects.

Now, let’s go through some typical steps you will want to
follow to start your
Week 2 Project.
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Step 1. Open Word, create a new blank document, and save the
file
as W2P_Mylastname
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Week 2 Project
Step 2. Select the Layout tab, from the Page Setup area select
the
Orientation option, and from the drop-down menu select
Landscape.
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Step 3. As a result, your page now will show in landscape
layout,

that is, with a full width of 11 inches, and a height of 8 ½
inches.
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Step 4. Insert a title for your event and a caption for the table
you
are about to create, and you may center them as shown. Then, in
the
space below, click on Insert tab and from there, click on Table
and
select the desired shape of your table on the grid. Here, the
screen
capture shows 6 columns and 4 rows, considering the header
row
and 3 rows for the location options. Again, this is just an
example,
you may have more rows for locations if you would like for
your case.

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Step 5. You now have inserted a table with 6 columns and 4
rows
below your title and caption.
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Week 2 Project
Step 6. Fill in your table with header information, facts for your
locations, including website, entertainment options, positives,
negatives, and cost. Below, this information is entered without
applying any particular formatting.
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Step 7. Notice, if you select the table by clicking on its upper-
left

corner, you’ll see a little square symbol appear as shown in the
screen capture below, and the contextual tab set Table Tools
will
appear above the ribbon, and beneath it two table contextual
tabs,
Design and Layout. You may access these tabs to customize
your
table by changing its style, manipulating rows and columns and
formatting the content. You may want to experiment with the
different styles under the Design tab. Remember, if you change
something and are not satisfied with the result, you can always
apply
the Undo option at the top of the ribbon as many times as
needed.
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Step 8. Here, no particular formatting is done on the table.
Below
the table, compose your evaluation paragraph. What is shown
below
is an example. You will need to compose your own evaluation
and
what drove your decision for the location you selected. To find
out
how many words you have written, select your entire paragraph,
click on the Review tab, and click on the Word Count function
under the Proofing group.
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Step 9. If you want to change the line spacing for your
paragraph,
select your entire paragraph as shown, then click on the
Paragraph
group. As an example, select Spacing, then select Line spacing

and
set it to Double. Click OK if you are done, or go to the next
step if
you want to continue formatting your paragraph.
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Step 10. If you want to format your paragraph following the
APA
style, keep the Paragraph window open, then under Special:
select
First Line and select the value By: 0.5” as shown. Click OK.

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Step 11. Now, your paragraph is double spaced, with first line
indented by 0.5” as shown.
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Step 12. To insert a page number in the footer, double click at
the
bottom of your page, a footer will open, and the body of the
document will be grayed out. Place your cursor to the left of the
paragraph symbol, click on the Insert tab, click on Page Number
under the Header & Footer group, then click on Current Position
and select the desired format.
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Step 13. The screen capture below shows the selection of Plain
Number for the page number format.

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Step 14. To the left of the page number, you may type Page
followed
by a space.
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Step 15. To position your page number in the lower-right corner
of
your page, select the Page and page number text as shown, then
under the Home tab, under the Paragraph group, click on the
Align
Right option.
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Step 16. As a result, now your page number is positioned where
you
want it in all the pages of your document.

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Step 17. To exit from the Header & Footer Tools, click on Close
Header and Footer in the ribbon.
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Step 18. Now, to create a header, once you have exited the
footer,
scroll to the top of your page, and double click in the very top
area
of your page. The contextual tab Header & Footer Tools Design
will
appear, and the header will be ready for editing. The body of
your
document will appear grayed out as shown. In the left end of
your
header, type your event name, click <Enter> to go to the next
line,
and type your full name. Then, exit the Header & Footer Tools
by
clicking on Close Header and Footer.
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Step 19. To apply some text formatting to your table, select the
entire
header row as show, then under the Home tab, click on the
Center
option under the Paragraph group.
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Step 20. The headers in your table are now centered. Keeping
the
entire header row selected, select the Bold option under the
Font
group.

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Step 21. As a result, your table header is now centered and in
bold
font.
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Step 22. As an example of more formatting you could apply to
your
document, you may want to select your title, here the text
“Graduation Party”, and under the Font group in the Home tab,
click
on the drop-down menu of Font options as shown. Here the font
Broadway is selected.
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Step 23. Then, if you want to change the size of your title, click
on the
Font Size drop-down menu and select the desired Font Size.
Here
the size 20 points is selected.

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Step 24. With the title still selected, you may change the color
by
clicking on the Font Color option under the Font group. Here,
the
color Orange Accent 6 is selected.
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Step 25. If you would like to explore ways to change the look of
the
background, click on the Design tab, click on Page Color under
the
Page Background group, and select the desired color. Here the
color Aqua Accent 5 Lighter 80% is selected.
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Step 26. To experiment with a border, under the Design tab,
click on
Page Borders under the Page Background group, select Page
Border, and there you may experiment with Style, Color, Width,
and Art to customize your border the way you want it.

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Step 27. As a result, you now have a document with evaluation
table
with basic formatting, header and footer as required, an
evaluation
paragraph, plus a colored background and a border.
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Step 28. As a final touch in your table, you may want to show
your
entertainment alternatives, positives and negatives as bullet-
item
lists. As an example, select a list in a cell under one of the
columns;
here, the first cell under the Entertainment Options column.
Then,
under the Home tab, Paragraph group, select the Bullets option.
Here, the default bullet style is used, but you may want to
experiment with different styles.
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Step 29. The list you selected is now bulleted. But you will

notice that
by default it is indented to the right by 0.25”. That takes
unnecessary
space in your table cells, especially if you have a lot of text, so
you
may want to remove the indentation as follows. With the bullet
list
still selected, under the Paragraph group, click on the Decrease
Indent option.
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Step 30. Your list is now shifted 0.25” to the left in your cell,
and takes
less space than before.

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Step 31. You may do the same with all your lists and the screen
capture below shows the final result.
Again, this is just an example of the type of content, evaluation,
and
formatting, you could do in your deliverable for the Week 2
Project.
Remember that you need to have your original locations, facts
and
evaluation for your own graduation party. Also, you should
experiment with various formatting features to create your own
unique
presentation.
Week 2 Project Tips
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“For Saundra,” by Nikki Giovanni (1968)
i wanted to write
a poem
that rhymes
but revolution doesn't lend
itself to be-bopping
then my neighbor
who thinks i hate
asked – do you ever write
tree poems – i like trees
so i thought
i'll write a beautiful green tree poem
peeked from my window
to check the image
noticed that the school yard was covered
with asphalt

no green – no trees grow
in manhattan
then, well, i thought the sky
i'll do a big blue sky poem
but all the clouds have winged
low since no-Dick was elected
so i thought again
and it occurred to me
maybe i shouldn't write
at all
but clean my gun
and check my kerosene supply
perhaps these are not poetic
times
at all
MLA Citation:

Giovanni, Nikki. “For Saundra.” The Collected Poetry of Nikki
Giovanni 1968-1998. William
Morrow, 2003. pp. 80.
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