I Have Included a Sample of One of the Research Business Plans, for You to Practice On

I have included a sample of one of the research business plans, for you to practice on called Sample. You can use this as a basis for your own paper or use the following instructions to make your own from scratch. I have found that if you just copy and paste from the DECA guide that it creates formatting problems. Type it in yourself, but it should be an exact copy of the table of contents for your category from the DECA Guide.

Put a section break after your title page, and another after a blank page. This second page is where you are going to generate your table of contents. Section breaks are found on the Page Layout tab, on the Page Setup section, and you want to put in a Next Page Section Break for both of these. You now have 3 pages.

Page numbering must start as page number 1 on the third page. No page numbers appear on the title page or on the table of contents. So with your cursor on the 3rd page, go the Insert tab, and insert page number bottom of page, plain #3 which inserts the number at the bottom right. With your cursor at the bottom of page, still in the footer area, go to the Navigation section of the DESIGN tab, and click on link to previous (which disconnects the sections). Delete the page number in the footer of page 2 (the table of contents page). Move your cursor back tothe third page which is the executive summary. Then go back to the Insert tab, and click on the down arrow beside the Page Number and choose format Page Number at the bottom. Change the bottom box to start at 1

On page 3, Format your document to have the large headings .. . in the guide they are I. II. III. You should have sub headings which are A. B. C. Once you have typed in all the information for the document from the guide (and it should be exactly the same as the guide) put a piece of text in for entry into each section as a place holder. Highlight all of the text you have put in on page 3. On the Page Layout tab, on the paragraph section change the Spacing After to 0 pt. You will be coming back to this one later. Now .. . your large headings . .. one at a time highlight the text for just that line, and click on Heading 1 in the styles section of the Home tab. Don’t worry about the current format of the heading. You can change all of them at a later date with only one change. One at a time, select the text of your sub-headings, and change them to Heading 2.

Now if you want to change the format of the headings, click on the down arrow on the lower left of the Styles area of the Home Ribbon. On the bottom of the Styles box are 3 icons. Choose the right one that says Manage Styles as you hold your cursor over it.

When you choose to Modify the style of Heading 1, you can change the font, the colour, and the size. I suggest black for all of these until you are ready to print a final copy, and at the very least change the size of the subheadings to 12. Modify the format of normal to have a .5 inch indent for each paragraph.

To generate the table of contents, you have to have made your headings and subheadings as Heading 1 and Heading 2 in the styles area of your Home tab. I have already done that on the sample page. For Practice, Put your cursor in the area just under the title I put in as a place holder on the second page. Go to the references tab, and choose Table of Contents from the left side of the ribbon. Insert an Automatic Table 1. If you make changes after the initial generation, all you have to do is click on the table of contents and at the top left corner ask to repaginate. I like to put it in early in the process so that I keep an eye on my total pages.

Type in your text under each heading where you put place holder text. It is normal, double spaced with 0 spacing before and after. Double spaced paragraphs must be indented to show new paragraphs. If you have problems with any of this, or need help with formatting pictures within your document ... let me know.

Bibliography

A bibliography is a list of all items that were used as source material when researching an assignment. You should keep a record of everything you read just in case you mention something that you don’t remember referencing.
The sources appear in alphabetic order, by author’s last name (or the first item in the entry if there is no author).
The bibliography appears on a separate page, press [CTRL] [Enter] with the title “Bibliography” or References, or Works Cited.
The bibliography is placed as the last page of an assignment.
The font and title should be “consistent” with the styles used in the main body of the assignment.
Each entry is single spaced, with double spacing between entries.
Use the hanging indent command to indent the second line of the entry. The first line is not tabbed.
Pay close attention to the punctuation and format for each type of source.
The bibliographic entry for a book has five pieces of information: Author, Title, City of Publication, Publisher, Year of Publication. Other sources require a variation of this information. Find the way to cite each type of source in a document called SourceIt which can be found and downloaded on line at stweb.peelschools.org/sssweb/library/SourceIt.pdf
In order to have the entries single spaced but double spaced between entries, highlight all of the entries click on the down arrow on the Paragraph tab of the Home Ribbon. In the dialogue box which appears change the Spacing Before to 0 pt and After to 12 pt

Once you have all of your materials in your list and set up with hanging indents, you need to put them in alphabetical order.
To be lazy, highlight the body of the bibliography (not the Title)
Press the sort button on the home tab, and it will alphabetize the list

Your completed bibliography should look like the following. But should start at the top of a new page, never as a part of the last page of your document.

Bibliography

“Business Education - Don’t Leave School Without It.” Toronto Star. 14 October 2014: C1.

“Protecting Your Privacy.” Educating Internet Users Everywhere. http: priv.htm (13 September 1997)

Gregoriou, G. “Edit Your Way to Better Marks.” Word Processing Daily. November 2013: pages 23 -24

Moore, Vicki and Olga Plagianakos. The Art of Word Processing. Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson, 2016

Pine, C. and W. Shatner. “Investing in Your Future.” Canadian Business Magazine. 21 November, 2009: pages 21 - 22. MAS.

Embedded Citations

Every citation you make in your paper must refer to an entry in your Bibliography!
The simplest way to cite sources parenthetical references or embedded citations.
The author’s last name and the page number from which the quotation, paraphrase or idea is taken must appear in the text in brackets.
For example:
….One runaway states “Drunk, my dad couldn’t work steady anymore, so he’dwork on and off. He’d sober up for work and tank up after work.” (Webber 126)…
If you cite another paragraph from the same work, or if the author or authors are clearly indicated in your text, common sense dictates that you only need to add page number(s) for the citation.
For example:
…….According to Webber, street kids are more likely to suffer abuse at thehands of their parents. (123)……..
If you are citing two or more articles by the same author, distinguish the sources by adding a date after the author's last name, e.g. (Webber 1991 54), (Webber 2000 62-64); or by adding an abbreviation of the title after the last name, e.g. (Webber Street kids 21), (Webber Homeless 35-40).
If you are quoting from a Web page, your citation for a parenthetical reference follows the same format as any regular citations for author, editor, title, etc. with one exception. Where no page reference is available on a Web page, indicating only the author's last name, or the short title, without page reference, e.g. (Child Welfare League) or (Hynes) would be all you need for a parenthetical reference provided that a corresponding entry has been made in your Works Cited list.