Career Paper Outline
For this project, you are required to create an MS Word document. Open a new, blank document. Today you
are doing the outline and introduction.
1. Save As Career Research Paper in your
Career Folder
2. Type the information for the top of the paper:
Name, Teacher name, subject, date.
3. Type the title of your paper, set as Title
style, and center. Update Title style.
4. Switch to Outline View. (View Tab) Add the
following headings at Level 1 & Level 2 for:
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Introduction
Career choices
o First
o second
Goals
o high school
o college goals
o Life Goals
Conclusion,
Bibliography or Citations (heading will be inserted when you insert the Bibliography piece)
Rename, rearrange, and add headings as appropriate: i.e. Pediatrician instead of 1st Career Choice
5. Switch back to Print Layout View
6. Set the margins to 1 inch
7. Add an introduction paragraph below the heading “Introduction”
8. Change the paragraph to MLA format. (1st line indent, double space)
9. Create a new style named “MLA Style” based on the first paragraph
10. Insert a header to MLA format (last name, and page number)
11. Insert a page break at the end of the document for Bibliography or Citations to be on its own page
12. Begin typing your paper under the headings.
Minimum Requirements: -- see the Cases and Places 4-4. Use these guidelines, and you may want to
include some of those ideas in your paper.
Remember – this is the grade for Cases and Places 4-4. Your Career
Research Paper, due at Midterm, will require more! And counts
more!
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At least 400 words.
MLA Format
o Header, Font, Paragraph style, Report Information
Follow basic rules of writing, including
o Text / Essay organization:
Introduction
Body: organized flow of ideas in outline
Conclusion: Summarize your paper.
o Credit the references for research, quotes, or images
Neat and professional, including correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Ideas to include in your final project:
• Your chosen career(s), and your plans to reach your goal, other plans for after high school
• What are your strengths? Your weaknesses?
• How will technology feature in your career?
• How does your history, your interests, family, etc. feature in your career choice?
• Who or what influenced you? Do you have a role model?
Make your document look good!
Career Research Paper
Description
Pts
Score
The paper should be presented according to MLA documentation style.
4
4
Outline includes at least 2 levels. Be creative. Rename the topic, I.e. "What I want to do" not
"Career Choices". It is possible that you will include some topics as part of other headings
(i.e. goal planning may be just one heading, and found under both career choices)
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Style created for body of report
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The works cited page should be created and include at least two references needs to be
hanging indents
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At least one explanatory footnote should be included
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All spelling and grammar should be correct.
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3
Paper should include at least 450 words.
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2
TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS:
20
20