Composition studies lacks a comprehensive theory of error, one which successfully defines error in writing and offers a pedagogical response to ostensible errors that neither ignores nor pathologizes them. Electronic text-critiquing technologies offer some promise of helping writers notice and correct errors, but they are under-researched in composition and rarely well-integrated into pedagogical praxis. This research on the grammar and style checker in Microsoft Word considers the program as an electronic checklist for making decisions about what counts as an error in a given rhetorical situation. This study also offers a theory of error grounded in the idea of attention, or cognitive load, some of which an electronic checker can relieve in its areas of its greatest effectiveness, which this research quantifies. The proposed theory of error forms the basis for a pedagogy of register, understood as typified style, and establishes that error itself can be a strategic style move.

Published Article / This study evaluated the difficulty, in terms of usability, of upgrading from one version of a word processor user interface (Microsoft Word 2003) to another (2007). Laboratory-based usability testing involving 23 participants, who had never used Microsoft Word 2007 before, was conducted. All participants used the two versions in a repeated-measures experimental design. A Tobii 1750 Eye Tracker was used for screen recordings during testing. Participants were also required to fill in user satisfaction questionnaires. Results from the usability test showed that, in terms of usability, migrating from an original interface to a completely changed user interface is not easy.

Today exists many semi-structured documents, whitch we want convert to structured form. Goal of this work is create a system, that make this task more automatized. That could be difficult problem, because most of these documents are not generated by computer, so system have to tolerate differences. We also need some semantic understanding, thats why we choose only domain of meeting minutes documents.

The thesis Teaching Microsoft Office using multimedia assesses the possibilities of creating multimedia teaching materials for Microsoft Office software suite. The partial goals include publication on YouTube.com, creation of text support materials, analyzing the availability of educational video materials for Microsoft Office in Czech Republic and abroad, and theoretical analysis of software used in practical part. One of the most interesting results from theoretical part is the amount of online content that exists in video format. Currently it makes up more than 50% of the consumed content and by 2019 it should be up to 80%. Currently, the average user in Czech Republic spends almost 30 hours each month consuming content from YouTube. In the practical part, the author selected the methodology and correct hardware and software equipment for creation of video materials. It was also necessary to create screenplay to ensure the required quality of the final product. Finally, it was necessary to edit created materials in a nonlinear editing program. For this purpose, the author chose Adobe Premiere Pro 2015.1. Next step was to create the appropriate YouTube channel called Abeceda Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office Alphabet) and upload video to it. After that, the author performed pilot tests on a sample of high school students.

This paper presents a piece of software to automatically extract requirements captured in Microsoft Word files while using domain knowledge. In a subsequent step, these requirements are enhanced for implementation purposes and ultimately saved to ReqIF, an XML-based file format for the exchange of specification documents. ReqIF can be processed by a wide range of industry-standard requirements management tools. By way of this enhancement a formalization of both the document structure and selected elements of its natural language contents is achieved. In its current version, the software was specifically developed for processing the Subset-026, a conceptually demanding specification document covering the core functionality of the pan-European train protection system ETCS. Despite this initial focus, the two-part design of this thesis facilitates a generic applicability of its findings: Section 2 presents the fundamental challenges of weakly structured specification documents and devotes a large part to the computation of unique, but human-readable requirement identifiers. Section 3, however, delves into more domain-specific features, the text processing capabilities, and the actual implementation of this novel software. Due to the open-source nature of the application, an adaption to other use-cases can be achieved with comparably little effort. / Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit einer Software zur automatisierten Extraktion von Anforderungen aus Dokumenten im Microsoft Word Format unter Nutzung von Domänenwissen. In einem nachgelagerten Schritt werden diese Anforderungen für Implementierungszwecke aufgewertet und schließlich als ReqIF, einem XML-basierten Dateiformat zum Austausch von Spezifikationsdokumenten, gespeichert. ReqIF wird von zahlreichen branchenüblichen Anforderungsmanagementwerkzeugen unterstützt. Durch die Aufwertung wird eine Formalisierung der Struktur sowie ausgewählter Teile der natürlichsprachlichen Inhalte des Dokuments erreicht. Die jetzige Version der Software wurde speziell für die Verarbeitung des Subset-026 entwickelt, eines konzeptionell anspruchsvollen Anforderungsdokuments zur Beschreibung der Kernfunktionalität des europaweiten Zugsicherungssystems ETCS. Trotz dieser ursprünglichen Intention erlaubt die zweigeteilte Gestaltung der Arbeit eine allgemeine Anwendung der Ergebnisse: Abschnitt 2 zeigt die grundsätzlichen Herausforderungen in Bezug auf schwach strukturierte Anforderungsdokumente auf und widmet sich dabei ausführlich der Ermittlung von eindeutigen, aber dennoch menschenlesbaren Anforderungsidentifikatoren. Abschnitt 3 befasst sich hingegen eingehender mit den domänenspezifischen Eigenschaften, den Textaufbereitungsmöglichkeiten und der konkreten Implementierung der neuen Software. Da die Software unter open-source Prinzipien entwickelt wurde, ist eine Anpassung an andere Anwendungsfälle mit relativ geringem Aufwand möglich.

This paper presents a piece of software to automatically extract requirements captured in Microsoft Word files while using domain knowledge. In a subsequent step, these requirements are enhanced for implementation purposes and ultimately saved to ReqIF, an XML-based file format for the exchange of specification documents. ReqIF can be processed by a wide range of industry-standard requirements management tools. By way of this enhancement a formalization of both the document structure and selected elements of its natural language contents is achieved. In its current version, the software was specifically developed for processing the Subset-026, a conceptually demanding specification document covering the core functionality of the pan-European train protection system ETCS. Despite this initial focus, the two-part design of this thesis facilitates a generic applicability of its findings: Section 2 presents the fundamental challenges of weakly structured specification documents and devotes a large part to the computation of unique, but human-readable requirement identifiers. Section 3, however, delves into more domain-specific features, the text processing capabilities, and the actual implementation of this novel software. Due to the open-source nature of the application, an adaption to other use-cases can be achieved with comparably little effort.:1 Introduction 13 1.1 Motivation 14 1.2 Previous formalization attempts 15 2 Processing specification documents 17 2.1 Structural considerations 17 2.1.1 The input format: DOC 18 2.1.2 Different parts of a specification document 20 2.1.3 The output format: ReqIF 20 2.2 Enhancing requirement content 23 2.2.1 Visualizing dependencies 25 2.2.2 Querying for data 25 2.3 Computing requirement identifiers 28 2.3.1 Unwinding complex structures: Tables 33 2.3.2 Unwinding complex structures: Other structures 37 2.3.3 Summary 38 3 The tool 41 3.1 Basic usage 41 3.1.1 Dealing with embedded media 43 3.2 ReqIF output 45 3.2.1 Data associated with a requirement artifact 46 3.2.2 Links between requirement artifacts 52 3.2.3 Issues with IBM DOORS 55 3.3 Content formalization 56 3.3.1 Detection of recurring elements 56 3.3.2 Sublist dependencies 58 3.3.3 Intra-cell requirements 59 3.3.4 Unformalizable elements 61 3.4 Inner workings 62 3.4.1 List hierarchy algorithm 64 3.4.2 Techniques for natural language content 69 3.5 Comparison to other tools 72 3.6 Applying this tool to other documents 74 3.7 EN 50128 tool qualification 76 4 Outlook 77 5 Conclusion 79 A Appendices 83 A.1 Postprocessing statistics data 83 A.1.1 Clean up spurious external links 83 A.1.2 Merge data of several tool runs 84 A.2 Subset-026 keywords 85 A.2.1 Legal obligation 85 A.2.2 Weak words 85 A.2.3 Other keywords for the implementerEnhanced-field 86 Lists of Figures, Tables and Listings 87 Glossary 89 Terms specific to this thesis 92 Bibliography 93 / Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit einer Software zur automatisierten Extraktion von Anforderungen aus Dokumenten im Microsoft Word Format unter Nutzung von Domänenwissen. In einem nachgelagerten Schritt werden diese Anforderungen für Implementierungszwecke aufgewertet und schließlich als ReqIF, einem XML-basierten Dateiformat zum Austausch von Spezifikationsdokumenten, gespeichert. ReqIF wird von zahlreichen branchenüblichen Anforderungsmanagementwerkzeugen unterstützt. Durch die Aufwertung wird eine Formalisierung der Struktur sowie ausgewählter Teile der natürlichsprachlichen Inhalte des Dokuments erreicht. Die jetzige Version der Software wurde speziell für die Verarbeitung des Subset-026 entwickelt, eines konzeptionell anspruchsvollen Anforderungsdokuments zur Beschreibung der Kernfunktionalität des europaweiten Zugsicherungssystems ETCS. Trotz dieser ursprünglichen Intention erlaubt die zweigeteilte Gestaltung der Arbeit eine allgemeine Anwendung der Ergebnisse: Abschnitt 2 zeigt die grundsätzlichen Herausforderungen in Bezug auf schwach strukturierte Anforderungsdokumente auf und widmet sich dabei ausführlich der Ermittlung von eindeutigen, aber dennoch menschenlesbaren Anforderungsidentifikatoren. Abschnitt 3 befasst sich hingegen eingehender mit den domänenspezifischen Eigenschaften, den Textaufbereitungsmöglichkeiten und der konkreten Implementierung der neuen Software. Da die Software unter open-source Prinzipien entwickelt wurde, ist eine Anpassung an andere Anwendungsfälle mit relativ geringem Aufwand möglich.:1 Introduction 13 1.1 Motivation 14 1.2 Previous formalization attempts 15 2 Processing specification documents 17 2.1 Structural considerations 17 2.1.1 The input format: DOC 18 2.1.2 Different parts of a specification document 20 2.1.3 The output format: ReqIF 20 2.2 Enhancing requirement content 23 2.2.1 Visualizing dependencies 25 2.2.2 Querying for data 25 2.3 Computing requirement identifiers 28 2.3.1 Unwinding complex structures: Tables 33 2.3.2 Unwinding complex structures: Other structures 37 2.3.3 Summary 38 3 The tool 41 3.1 Basic usage 41 3.1.1 Dealing with embedded media 43 3.2 ReqIF output 45 3.2.1 Data associated with a requirement artifact 46 3.2.2 Links between requirement artifacts 52 3.2.3 Issues with IBM DOORS 55 3.3 Content formalization 56 3.3.1 Detection of recurring elements 56 3.3.2 Sublist dependencies 58 3.3.3 Intra-cell requirements 59 3.3.4 Unformalizable elements 61 3.4 Inner workings 62 3.4.1 List hierarchy algorithm 64 3.4.2 Techniques for natural language content 69 3.5 Comparison to other tools 72 3.6 Applying this tool to other documents 74 3.7 EN 50128 tool qualification 76 4 Outlook 77 5 Conclusion 79 A Appendices 83 A.1 Postprocessing statistics data 83 A.1.1 Clean up spurious external links 83 A.1.2 Merge data of several tool runs 84 A.2 Subset-026 keywords 85 A.2.1 Legal obligation 85 A.2.2 Weak words 85 A.2.3 Other keywords for the implementerEnhanced-field 86 Lists of Figures, Tables and Listings 87 Glossary 89 Terms specific to this thesis 92 Bibliography 93

To develop leaders for the 21st century, schools must be able to prepare students to meet the high academic, technical and workforce challenges. Charter schools are increasingly attempting to meet these challenges by educating students through innovative means and by creating effectual educational programs that are more conducive to the needs of the student. This document provides a computer literacy curriculum, which will facilitate student learning of computer literacy skills.