Spanish-American Institute

201 Keyboarding (Basic Course) 120 Classes

Prerequisite(s): None

Textbooks: Scot Ober et al, Gregg College Typing, Series Six: Basic, Glencoe: 1996 (or comparable text).

Course Description: While developing English language skills, this course builds keyboarding speed and accuracy skills through the production of personal-business and business correspondence in English.

Objectives: By the end of the course, students should be able:

• to apply rules for English spelling and word formation;
• to read and understand English letter combinations and words, word combinations, sentences, and passages;
• to recognize and correct spelling, punctuation, and other English language errors;
• to read and follow directions in English when practicing keyboarding exercises;
• to ask questions in English concerning concepts and implementation;
• to identify and correct English language errors in producing documents;
• to produce letters, reports, memos, tables, and other personal-business and business documents from hand-written and from printed text in English;
• to develop touch control of the keyboard and proper keyboarding techniques; and
• to build basic speed and accuracy skills (to 25 wpm keyboarding English text with no more than five errors in five minutes).

Instructional Methods: Classes include language development and theory sessions followed by hands-on practice and drills for speed and accuracy keyboarding in English using WORD. Students will complete periodic summary exercises that require application of all skills learned to date. Each student will create a portfolio of finished output.

Grading: The final grade is based on the average of each student's weekly classroom grades for class participation, speed and accuracy rates, and correct document production.

Course Outline:

Weeks	Course Topics	Assignments and Tests
1-2	Vocabulary guidelines: write two complete sentences for each word, one that describes its meaning and one that gives an example of its use. Unit 1. Identifying and keyboarding the English alphabet, using the shift keys, and using basic sentence punctuation.	Vocabulary log (according to guidelines provided by the instructor)
3-4	Unit 2. Identifying and keyboarding the alphabet, using the shift keys, and using basic English sentence punctuation (continued). Paragraph indenting.	Vocabulary log One-minute timed writings.
5-6	Unit 3. Using horizontal, block, spread, and vertical centering; typing capitals.	Vocabulary log Pre-test/practice/post-test: reaches.
7-8	Unit 4. Identifying and typing numbers. Review for exam.	2-minute timed writings Progress tests (including 2-minute timed writings on alphabetic copy and on copy with numbers; tests on centering). Exam.
9-10	Unit 5. Identifying and typing symbols. English word division. English language error correction.	Vocabulary log Pre-test/practice/post-test: error correction.
11-12	Unit 6. Producing basic business letters and personal-business letters in English.	Vocabulary log Letters 1-12
13-14	Unit 7. Producing simple reports in English; proofreading; enumerating; producing reports from rough-draft copy.	Vocabulary log Reports 1-9. One-minute pre-test and post-test
15-16	Unit 8. Producing simple tables and tables in English with blocked column headings, with short centered headings, and with long centered headings. Review of tables, reports, and letters. Review for exam.	Vocabulary log Pre-test/practice/post-test: tables with columns. Letters 13-14. Tables 1-12. Reports 9-10. Progress tests: 3-minute timed writing, letters, tables, and reports. Exam
17-18	Unit 9. Producing business correspondence in English: interoffice memos, postcards, envelops, folding letters, and letters with copies.	Vocabulary log Memos 1-4. Postcards 1-4. Envelopes 1-5 with letter 15. Envelops 5-6 with letters 16-17.
19-20	Unit 10. Producing bound reports in English; understanding and using proofreaders marks; and producing reports with footnotes and endnotes, with titles, and with tables of contents.	Vocabulary log Pre-test/practice/post-test: reports. Reports 12-18.
21-22	Unit 11. Producing forms in English: interoffice memo forms, with and without enumerations, printed forms, job-application papers. Producing letter of application in English with job-application form.	Vocabulary log Memos 5-8. Forms 1-5. Letter 18.
23-24	Unit 12. English language keyboarding skill refinement. Review of correspondence, letters, reports, memos, forms, and tables in English. Review for exam.	Vocabulary log Pre-test/practice/post-test: letters and memos. Envelopes 7-10 with Letters 19-20; Letters 21-22; Memo 9-10; Tables 13-15; Forms 6-7; Reports 19-20. Pre-test/practice/post-test: tables. Progress tests: 3-minute timed writing, letter with modified block style, unbound report with footnotes, and purchase order. Exam.

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