What I really needed was a tutorial that showed me, with positive examples, what the data would look like at each stage in the normalization process.
Therefore once I had gained some facility in the subject I resolved to write the tutorial that would have helped me when I was starting out. As time goes on I get more and more positive feedback about this tutorial, both from desperate seekers like myself and from IT instructors who are relieved to find such a clear and readily-available explication.