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Word processing and Desktop
Publishing (DTP) applications are used more often by more people every day than
any other type of computer application. The basic skills used in word processing
and DTP programs are also used in one way or another in most other kinds of
software.
To create text documents on a computer
people use a word processing program like MS Word, Lotus WordPro, or
WordPerfect.
This
web site has everything you ever wanted to know about typewriters (but were
afraid to ask)
Here's
another site with way too much information about old typewriters
This
page has nice pictures of old typewriters
OK on with the work...
Start by reading Computer Confluence pages 126 - 133
Then complete each of the tasks detailed
below
1.
Economic
effects of DTP on business
a) As a new employee in a real estate company you can see the amount of
money being spent paying a publishing house to print the monthly real estate
magazine. Type a half page letter to the owner to explain the benefits of
using DTP to produce the magazine in-house. Back up your claim with some facts and
figures (cost of hardware, software, and training).
In
Graphic Detail: A beginner's guide to desktop publishing (DTP) for organizations
without graphic design staff (April 07, 2003)
http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articlepage.cfm?articleid=477
How
Do You Do Desktop Publishing? - DTP Q & A
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/beginners/a/how_dtp.htm
OR
b) Imagine you are the owner of a DTP company. Type a half page letter to the owner of the real estate company
explaining the benefits of using your company to publish his monthly real estate
magazine.
Everybody's
a Designer - but are we saving money?
http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/2003/2003article10.htm
Desktop
Publishing: Quality tool, or an aid to mediocrity?
http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/8800/8809article4.htm
Desk
Top Publishing: Should You Do It In-House or Have It Done Outside?
http://www.kirwood.com/inorout.htm
Provide
a conclusion weighing up of both sides of the argument.
DUE:
Monday 25th October by
the end of class
3.
2. Effects
of WP and DTP on the workplace, eg job loss, deskilling
a) Imagine that you
left school in 1976 a worked as a printing apprentice with a local newspaper.
After the apprenticeship you became a full-time typesetter. Describe exactly
what your job involves. Explain your feelings when DTP was introduced into your
workplace. How do you feel about deskilling?
Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2003. http://www.britannica.com/
(
2 Feb 2003
).
Dead
medium: Typesetters: a Dead Class of Media Workers
http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/40/406.html
OR
b) Imagine that you are an employer and evaluate the advantages and
disadvantages of introducing WP and DTP into the workplace.
Jones International. 1999, ‘Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopaedia’.
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/desktop.html (2 Feb 2003
).
The link above is not working at the moment.
Try this instead. Desktop Publishing and Your Business By Melanie L. Drake
Tennyson Graphics. 1996, ‘Tennyson Graphics classic website’.
http://www.tennysongraphics.com/tg/ (
2 Feb 2003
).
Desktop Publishing is Neither
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrwizard/web/dtp.html
DUE:
Thursday 28th October by
the end of class
KEY TERMS
(for your glossary)
formatting, template,
spell check, grammar check, ASCII/unicode, PDF, RTF, text
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
-
effects
of DTP on the right to publish, eg freedom of the press, free exchange of
ideas
-
economic
effects of DTP on business
-
intellectual
property issues assoc. with reproduction and/or transformation of digitized
text
-
effects
of WP and DTP on the workplace, eg job loss, deskilling, surveillance
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ergonomics/health
impacts of word processing and DTP in the workplace
-
social
impact of speech-enabled input/output
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Topic
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Due
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DTP
in-house OR outsourced
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Oct 25 |
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Q2
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DTP
employee’s view OR
employer’s view
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Oct
28 |
CRITERIA FOR MARKING
Correct information, backed up by well
substantiated arguments with consideration of the local and global situation.
Weighing up must consider both advantages and limitations and the final
viewpoint must be well supported with factual evidence and examples.
GENERAL RESOURCES
Baase, S. 2003, A gift of fire,
Prentice Hall
,
New Jersey
Beekman, G. 2003, Computer Confluence: Exploring Tomorrow's Technology, Prentice
Hall,
New Jersey
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