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Research Paper. Ch 2 MS Word. Optical Storage Devices. Purpose of research:. In both academic and business environments, you will be asked to write reports Business reports range from proposals to cost justifications to five-year plans to research findings

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  1. Research Paper Ch 2 MS Word Optical Storage Devices

  2. Purpose of research: • In both academic and business environments, you will be asked to write reports • Business reports range from proposals to cost justifications to five-year plans to research findings • Academic reports focus mostly on research findings. • In both cases you should follow a standard style when preparing it.

  3. Creation of a Report: • Many styles of documentation exist for report preparation, depending on the nature of the report. • Each style requires the same basic information, if it is bibliography, or works cited or references: • MLA • APA

  4. Why a Research Paper? • How to gather information: • School environment: So many resources are available – see how other people present the topic! • Putting information together to form a ‘unity’ : • This is a challenge, and is expected from 4th year training. • Other departments will expect you to do research, and see this as an introduction!

  5. Topic: Optical Storage Devices • Introduction • An optical disk is a storage media consisting of a flat, round, portable disk made of metal, plastic, and lacquer. Optical disks are written and read by a laser. Different formats of optical disks are • CD-ROM • CD-R • CD-RW • DVD-ROM • DVD-R……

  6. Body 1: (Article) • CD’s: • Source: ”Using computer CD’s”, an article on page 14-20 in the November 2006 issue of Internet Talk, authors Dennis A. Manzenera and Jeffrey T. Brautigan. • Users can read but not write or erase a CD-ROM • Users record their own items such as text, graphics, and audio on a CD-R. You can write on part of disk at one time and another part at …..

  7. Body 2: (Web) • DVD-ROM • Source: Web, “High-Capacity Storage Media sponsored by Shelly Cashman”, read on May 24, 2013, Web address: www.scsite.com/wd20032e/ • A DVD-ROM is an extremely high-capacity optical disk that stores 4.7 GB to 17 GB • DVD-ROM means digital versatile disk-ROM or digital video disk ROM • The goal of DVD is to meet the needs of human entertainment……

  8. Body 3: (Book) • DVD-Recordable and DVD-Rewritable Formats • Source: A Guide to DVD Formats, by Mideast Publishing in San Francisco, California, 2006, by Cesar Guzman and Consuelo Padilla • To write on DVD-recordable disks, you must have a proper type of drive • DVD-R and DVD+R are competing DVD-recordable format. Each has 4.7 GB of storage …

  9. Task: • Challenge!!! • To integrate these different sources in a logical unit that reads like an essay, and still reference them properly! • This is typical work on Hons level

  10. Conclusion: • Show how the Body comes together to support the introduction and topic

  11. Way forward: • Research • Test on Word?

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