Application-oriented Clause Samples
Application-oriented. Application-oriented method is sort of a reduced variation of the previous method with the difference that it does not encourage to teach every possibility, but it concentrates on those that are necessary for a sphere of application or a document type if applied to word processing. Regarding word processing such can be for example a cv, a form, a document merge, an article and a long line of similar tasks. Let’s consider a CV as a document type. A CV has a contact information, it has headings and ordinary lines, etc. Therefore, one may need to format paragraphs (indents and spacing), characters (font effects, size or even type). It is also very likely that among ordinary lines there will appear lists, (list of degrees or courses taken for example). In a more advanced CV there can be a picture included, and one has to ensure its positioning and sizing. This method makes a characteristic distinction between for ex. article and a CV, as the starting document types are different. Although a significant part of the related concepts, operations and tools are, of course, identical with the ones learnt in word processing (they can even be created using the same tools), their importance, application frequency is clearly different (e.g. column, table of contents, page numbering, index etc.). The method can be applied even in other ICT spheres. When it comes to illustrations, those can include posters, lines, illustrations, logos, mosaics, layouts, graphs, maps etc. In Spreadsheets we don’t define document types as much, but those can be for example, analysis, statistics, mathematical applications, tabulations, charts, simulations etc. The application-oriented method is one of the appropriate for adult education, where trainees learn to manage the most common document or file types, as well as go through different possibilities to work with those.
