K-State All Digital Book Production

Step 1: Find a book and write all the tags and citations in the Word template

· Double click the Word file titled ‘Research Template’. Locate the place on the bar at the top that says ‘Normal’. Whenever you type out a tag you have to click this box and select ‘Heading 2’. You should also put a short 1-5 word title above the tag summarizing the purpose of the evidence and this should be in ‘Heading 1’.

· Once you find the first piece of evidence in the book you found; type out the tag for the argument and then the citation on your computer and in the correct Heading. The citation should be in ‘Heading 3’ but you will have to change the Author and Date to Bold if it pleases you. Here is the format:

Author Last Name, Date
(Author Full Name [Qualifications] Book Title, “Chapter name if anthology”, Publication, Place of Publication, pg. #)

· For every subsequent card you will do the same thing, copying and pasting the citation but changing the page numbers.

Step 2: Scan the book in as a PDF file

· Scan each page in to the computer that you have written down in your word document

· There are scanners in the library and we have one in our squad room – have another debater show you how to use them.

· Either send the PDF file to somebody who can OCR the document for you or if you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat Pro then select Document -> OCR -> Whole Document.

Step 3: Copy the cards underneath their corresponding tags that are already written out

· Highlight (in complete paragraphs) what you need to support the argument that your tag makes and click copy (Ctlr-C / Apple-C). Before you paste it in to the word document select ‘Heading 3’ and after you paste it in select ‘Clear Formatting’ on the little tool tip that comes up immediately after pressing Ctrl-V / Apple-V.

· The paragraphs that you copied over will probably not fill the whole page; this is corrected easily. Highlight all of the text you copied over and select ‘Replace’. In the ‘Find What’ box enter: ^p and in the ‘With what’ box click inside of the box and press the spacebar once – putting a space in the box. Now click the Replace button. When it asks you if you want to repeat the action for the whole document click NO.

· Make sure that the OCR did not mess up by looking to see if Word underlines any words in green signifying that they are spelled wrong. This normally only happens if the book is written in (so don’t do that) or if you scanned it in crooked.

· If you want to make the index select Insert -> Reference -> Table of Contents and select Header 1 only