This is a tutorial on how to copy or download
a Google Doc so that you can write on it,
and how to share that with your instructor.
In ENG 090 in Unit 1 Paragraph Assignment,
you are required to complete a planning document
as you prepare to write your paragraph.
So when you go through reading the instructions
about the paragraph, you will find that there
are two documents in Google Docs form for
pre-writing.
The Brainstorming Google Doc is optional,
but the Planner is required.
So you'll click on that link and you'll see
the Google Doc.
This version is not editable and there is
a button that says Request edit access, but
please do not click that button.
Instead, what you will do is either copy it
or download it in a different format so that
you can type on it.
Either way, you will go up to File.
If you want to make a copy, simply click Make
a copy.
Google Docs will suggest a name for it, and
of course you can adjust this if you wish.
It will save it to your own Google Drive,
and you simply say ok.
With the copy of the document, you will now
be able to write on this document.
So you'll be able to fill in the required
information for your planner.
So you could put your title for your essay,
your topic sentence, your first major detail
with supporting details, second major detail,
etc.
Once you've filled out your planner, you will
need to share that with your instructor.
So you will go up to the Share button and
you're going to want to...you could email
your instructor and send a link that way,
but you do want to change the restrictions.
So where it says Get link, you want to click
Change the link and you do want to have it
anyone at Delaware Tech can view it, but you
do want to change this from Viewer to Editor...or
Commentator, either way would work.
If you do the Editor, then your instructor
can change your form.
If you do the commentator, then your instructor
can simply make comments.
Either way would work.
And then either share it with your instructor's
email or you can copy the link and post that
in the submission folder for your document.
Okay.
So that's copying it and keeping it in a Google
Docs format.
The other option you have is to go to File
and click Download, and here you can choose
to download it as a Microsoft Word doc or
a rich text format.
Don't do a pdf because you can't type on that,
and most of those others are probably not
going to work very well.
But if you have Word, I would suggest downloading
it as a Word doc, and then when you open that,
you can enable editing, and now you have it
as a Microsoft Word document, and you can
write on it just as you were doing on the
Google Doc, and fill out all that information.You
would then go up to File and save your file,
save as, and save it in whichever folder or
format you need to save it in.
And then when it's time for you to submit
your assignment, you would go down to the
submission folder for the Paragraph Pre-writing.
If it is a Word doc, you can add a file and
look for it.
If it's a Google Doc, then you can put your
link right here in the text box and that should
work for your instructor to access it.
Hopefully that will assist you as you're working
on this assignment, and throughout the course,
you'll have similar kinds of pre-writing that
you'll need to do, and you can use this same
approach.
