INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The clutch pedal should be the left pedal in your vehicle, next to the brake in the middle. You'll have to press down on the clutch as you change gear, so it's important to know where it's located before you start driving. Familiarizing yourself with the pattern on top of your gearstick will help you understand where the gearstick needs to go when changing up a gear. The gearstick should have R, 1, 2, 3, 4, and sometimes 5 or 6 gears. R means reverse while the rest of the figures stand for the gear that your car is in. When upshifting, you'll be moving from one gear to the next highest gear to gain speed in your vehicle. Different cars will have a different shifting patterns. It's important to understand your car's pattern before you start driving.

SUMMARY: Find the clutch pedal. Examine the pattern on the top of your gearstick.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Make sure you remove the complete corms with all smaller cormels surrounding it. Shake off the loose soil and cut the stems from the corms.  Break apart the old dried corms off of the new corms and remove loose husks. Leave wrapper husks attached during storage. The new corms are called cormels. Cormels will not produce flowers the first year they are planted, but will grow into larger corms for future year's flowers. Dust them with the same insecticide you used to protect the plants and keep them in a dark, cool, well-ventilated area where they will not freeze.

SUMMARY: Dig gladiola corms just before first frost. Dry the corms in a warm, well-ventilated area for 2 to 3 weeks. Clean the corms by dusting off remaining dried soil with your hands. Sort out, clean and label the small cormels for planting next year. Store corms for the winter.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: “Paraphrasing” is saying something someone else has said in your own words. You still express the same ideas, just in a different way. It can be a useful skill to have, especially if you are trying to write an essay or article. Of course, you always want to give credit when you use someone else’s ideas, but paraphrasing gives you a chance to say it in your own words instead of using a direct quotation. By stating it your way, the information may fit better into what you’re writing, allowing your writing to flow more easily from one idea to the next. Paraphrasing may sound suspiciously like summarizing, but they are actually two different methods of rewriting a text. In both methods, you are putting the text in your own words, though summarizing sometimes uses some of the same phrases as the original, depending on your end goals.  For example, let’s say the original writing is: “The fox stalked its prey in the moonlight, it’s large ears and bright eyes on high alert for the rabbit’s next move.”  Example of a paraphrased sentence: “The rabbit stayed still in the light of the moon while the fox surveyed the land using its spectacular hearing and night vision.”  Example of summarization: “Foxes hunt rabbits at night using their ears and eyes.” Summarizing focuses on the facts of the statement rather than the details.

SUMMARY: Know what ‘paraphrasing’ means. Be aware of the differences between paraphrasing and summarizing.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: This method covers Word 2007 or later on a Windows, and Word 2011 or later on a Mac. If you don't know your version number, here's an easy test: if there's a "ribbon menu" of icons above your open document, follow these instructions. If there's no ribbon menu skip to the next method instead. If you only see a row of tabs labeled "Home," "Layout," etc., click on one of these tabs to expand the ribbon menu. Click the Text Box button on the ribbon menu. This is under the Insert or Home tabs, depending on your version of Word. Click on the text box and type in the text you'd like to rotate. Notice that clicking on the text box makes a border appear. Look for a line that extends above the border of the text box, ending in a circle. Click and hold this circle. Move your cursor while holding down on the circle to rotate the text box. After rotating, when you click the box to edit the text, it may snap back to the normal orientation. This is just to make it easier for you to see what you're doing. It should return to the position your chose after you click outside the box. Hold down Shift while rotating to limit the possible positions. This makes it easier to rotate to even 45º or 30º angles, and to make parallel text boxes. If you're having trouble achieving the look you want, try rotating using menu commands instead:  Double-click the text box to open the Format ribbon menu, or select the Format tab. Click the Text Direction button in the ribbon menu. In some versions this is a small, unlabeled button with an image of vertical text. Select one of the options from the drop-down menu.

SUMMARY:
Check your version of Word. Insert a text box. Type in the text box. Click the circle above the text box. Drag to rotate the box. Hold Shift for cleaner rotating. Use menu options instead.