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PROJECT STEPS
- You are writing a research paper for your Marketing Principles class. The topic of the paper is generational marketing. You must write the paper in APA style and include suggestions from your professor.
- Start by changing the Citations & Bibliography Style of the document to APA.
- To conform to APA guidelines, modify the Normal style as follows:
- Change the Normal style font to Times New Roman.
- Change the Normal style font size to 12 point.
- Change the Normal style line spacing to double with no blank space after paragraphs.
- Apply the modified Normal style to the first four paragraphs in the document, from “Lee Bao” to “8 September 2021”.
- Center the four paragraphs on the title page.
- Center the title paragraph “Generational Marketing: Varying Online Content by Generation” on page 3.
- Insert headers to follow APA specifications as follows:
- Insert a Blank (Three Columns) header.
- Select the Different First Page option to remove the current header from the first page.
- Add a header back to the first page by inserting a Blank (Three Columns) header.
- In the first page header, delete the center content control.
- Type Running head: GENERATIONAL MARKETING: VARYING ONLINE CONTENT BY GENERATION as the left content control text, and then press the DELETE key twice to remove the middle TAB character.
- Select the right content control, and then add a Plain Number page number from the Current Position gallery.
- In the header starting on the second page, delete the center content control.
- Type GENERATIONAL MARKETING: VARYING ONLINE CONTENT BY GENERATION as the left content control text, and then press the DELETE key twice to remove the middle TAB character.
- Select the right content control, and then add a Plain Number page number from the Current Position gallery.
- Close Header & Footer Tools.
- Create a First Line indent of 0.5″ for the body paragraphs beginning with “When providing online content…” and ending with “…ebooks and articles.”
- Respond to the comment from your professor, Nancy Tokai, in the first body paragraph as follows:
- Read the comment, and then delete it.
- Before the period in the sentence “These groups include…(born from 2000 on).” insert a citation to a new source using the information shown in Table 1. (Hint: The Show All Bibliography box should be checked in order to see all fields.)
- Table 1: Web Site Source
- Type of Source: Web site
- Corporate Author check box: Has checkmark
- Corporate Author: Pew Research Center
- Name of Web Page: Generation Study
- Year: 2020
- Month: May
- Day: 1
- Year Accessed: 2021
- Month Accessed: August
- Day Accessed: 30
- Medium: Website
- Insert a citation to the existing Chastfield source before the period at the end of the sentence, “Campaign designers segment…to suit specific generations.”
- In the same sentence, use the Thesaurus to replace the word “customize” with a less formal synonym that starts with the letter “t.”
- In the fourth body paragraph (“The generations all…and whitepapers.”), find the Risser citation, and then edit the source to use 2 as the Day Accessed.
- In the same paragraph, before the period at the end of the sentence, “Another similarity…and whitepapers.”, insert a citation to a new source using the information shown in Table 2. (Hint: The Show All Bibliography box should be checked in order to see all fields.)
- Table 2: Article in a Periodical Source
- Type of Source: Article in a Periodical
- Author: Rivera, Pedro
- Title: Generation Gaps
- Periodical Title: Market Analysis
- Year: 2020
- Month: June
- Day: 5
- Pages: 20
- Medium: Print
- Edit the Vance citation in the fifth paragraph (“Across the generations…ongoing experience.”) to add 14 as the page number.
- To provide additional information at the end of the fifth paragraph, move the insertion point immediately after the period in the sentence “The least favorite… consumer’s ongoing experience.” and insert a footnote with the following text:
- These ads include banner and display ads.
- Modify the Footnote Text style by changing its font size to 12 point, the line spacing to double, and the indentation to a 0.5″ First line indent.
- In the main body of the document, find all instances of the text “customers” and replace it with “consumers” to use the more appropriate term for this paper. (Hint: You should make two replacements.)
- On page 4, read the remaining comment from Nancy Tokai, and then reply to it with the following text:
- Thanks!
- Modify the “References” paragraph as follows to match the APA style:
- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the “References” paragraph, and then insert a manual page break.
- Center the “References” paragraph on the new page.
- Move the insertion point to the left-aligned blank paragraph at the end of the document, and then use the Insert Bibliography command to insert a list of sources without a built-in heading.
- In the bibliography, the year is missing from the Schawbel source. Find the Schawbel source in the body of the document and edit it to provide 2020 as the year.
- Update the bibliography field so that the References list reflects the edit you made to the Schawbel source.
- Check the Spelling & Grammar in the document to identify and correct any spelling errors. (Hint: Ignore names.)