Green River Community College
English as a Second Language Program
Word Processing IV
These worksheets will help you to learn how to use word processing.
You will have to type and format text. Please follow all the directions carefully.

Directions: If you are in the ESL 055 classroom, your teacher will give you a copy of this worksheet. If you are not in the classroom, you can print this page and use it for a model. Follow all directions. If you click on the link at bottom, you can see the finished version of this worksheet. Use it to compare with your own to make sure you have the completed the worksheet correctly.

Word Processing – IV - Typing and Formatting A Whole Document

Directions: In the past, I have given you directions on how to format text. This text was already typed and saved. I gave you a copy, and you had to open the file and change it. Today, I’m asking you to re-type this document. You have to do it exactly like this page. You have to use the same layout, font, font size, bold, italics, and underlining, justification, and the other elements of formatting we covered. I am not giving you this exercise on disk, because I want you to type it and check it all by yourself, including all directions. Here is a list of directions to follow.

  1. Use Times New Roman as the font for the entire document.
  2. The regular size of the font should be 12 point.
  3. The size of the heading should be 14 point.
  4. The class information at the top should be 12 point, bold and left justified.
  5. Type your name at the top, underline it, and make it right justified.
  6. The heading should be bold and centered.
  7. This list should be numbered.
  8. Type the story about the plow and then change it afterwards.

 

The Plow

Human beings have probably practiced farming of a kind for at least 30,000 years, but it was not until they began to break the soil systeatically that they truley began to dominate the landscape and produce crops on what for many a century has been an industrial scale. The plow has enabled human beings to break the ecological law that says that big, fierce animals are rare, for we are the most formdable of all, and yet there are now 6 billion of us. The plow has transformed the world's landscape and pushed our fellow species to the sidelines.

 

Colin Tudge, author of "Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began" (Yale, $9.95)

Put these dates in the correct order by cutting and pasting: 1990, 1789, 1225, 1790, 1914, 1945, 1975, 1991.

Save this document to your disk, print it, and give it to your teacher.

You can check your revised document with the answer for Worksheet IV.

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