Posted in tech on Jul 29th, 2008
Although all word processing applications have similar capabilities in terms of editing and formatting, Microsoft Word has several advanced capabilities. These capabilities provide special tools to assist the writer. These tools are the thesaurus, research, spell check, and grammar check. Together, they help the writer perform a significant part of the revision process.
The Microsoft Word [...]
Posted in tech on Jul 29th, 2008
This was written about a fictional character, Aunt Sally, who wants to organize information regarding her stuffed animal collection into a database.
Aunt Sally sure has a lot of things in mind for her stuffed animal spreadsheet. The first task she needs to accomplish is sorting the data to her specifications. She can do this [...]
Posted in tech on Jul 22nd, 2008
In Microsoft Excel, functions and formulas work closely together. Formulas are simply mathematical operations that may or may not include the contents of cells in the spreadsheet. Functions are very similar in that they are pre-defined formulas which take their input from the parameters passed in to them. Like formulas, functions may act on data [...]
Posted in ethics on Jun 16th, 2008
Boatright (2007) defines advertising as “a paid non-personal communication about an organization and it’s products that is transmitted to a target audience through a mass medium” (p. 272). Unfortunately, this definition is a bit too broad and includes other forms of promotion such as advocacy advertising. This kind of advertising, promoting a cause or idea, [...]