This week, my challenge continues to be 'thinking virtually'. I completed my report and submitted it to my site supervisor last week. I'd received my feedback yesterday. While she said that overall the report was 'good and solid', she asked that I change my citations to links. I'd never thought of that. As a college student, I've been taught to cite things in parenthesis at the ends of sentences. So when our instructions said to 'cite' our sources, I proceeded as per usual. Linking in Word documents is not the most challenging thing to do, nor is it a new feature. I'd just never needed to use it before and I'd certainly never been encouraged to explore more advanced MS Word features before.
(The table of contents creator in MS Word continues to amaze me. Then again, in academic papers, we're generally not asked for a table of contents so I've never used it before. It's so easy, now I want to put a table of contents in every paper.)
For this week, I will be going back and putting citation links into my report (today) and then awaiting further instructions from my site supervisor. It's hard to believe but we're already half way through the semester.
Silvia, you bring up a work process that we should be incorporating into our assignment requirements (my opinion). You are correct in that creating documents digitally allows us to link to citations and use features like the automatic table of contents feature in Word (which I use for articles and more recently a book I wrote). It is so easy to develop and to update. We should be taking advantage of those features.
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