Day eleven: a research paper

Before beginning today's work, we'll talk more about XML files.

Here's a page of XML examples. Look at the ones in the top group. You can see that their structure is just like HTML, but where HTML is about appearance, XML is about content. Any programmer can write a programs to use XML-formatted content.

To learn more, try keywords "XML tutorial," "XML examples," etc. in a search engine.

Microsoft has learned from history and published a great deal of description of how it uses XML in Office 2007. This will make it possible for Microsoft's rivals to read and write Office 2007 documents.

Our work for the day: formatting a research paper. See projects 6B, beginning on page 354, and 6-Oh, beginning on page 406. E-mail me the result of 6-Oh when you have finished it.

Here is a very interesting page on evolving citation practices for electronic resources in APA style. The APA handout for a sample paper is at the bottom of this page.

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