Synopses & Reviews
The Eighteenth Edition of KEYBOARDING AND WORD PROCESSING ESSENTIALS, LESSONS 1-55 uses proven techniques to help readers master the keyboarding and formatting skills they need for career success--from initial new-key learning to expertise in formatting business documents with Microsoft Word 2010. South-Western College Keyboarding offers a proven, time-tested approach that helps readers develop a strong foundation in basic keyboarding, steadily improve their skills, and rapidly become proficient in document formatting and business communication. Each lesson is clearly focused, well structured, and designed to provide step-by-step training and reinforcement to help readers quickly acquire and apply new skills. This one-book solution includes 55 lessons, documents, and instructions for using keyboarding software (sold separately) within a space-saving easel-back format.
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"I really love the books. They are easy to read, easy to teach from. Course content can be increased or decreased depending on student ability."- Kay Holcomb, Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell
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Focus on the keyboarding and formatting skills most important for career success! KEYBOARDING AND WORD PROCESSING 17E, LESSONS 1-60, uses proven techniques to guide users from the basics of new-key learning to business documents using the commands of Microsoft? Word 2007. Lessons are clearly focuses on needs with skill building, communication skills, proofreading activities, and document formatting. Lessons 1-25 concentrate on developing keyboarding skill by learning the alphabetic keyboarding, top-row numbers, symbols, and the numeric keypad. Lessons 26-60 teach the basics of document and word processing formats including block and modified block letters, memos, e-mails, tables, review and edit documents, and graphics and newsletters.
Synopsis
KEYBOARDING and FORMATTING ESSENTIALS, LESSONS 1-60 teaches new-key learning and basic document formatting using the functions of Microsoft? Word 2007! Lessons 1-25 concentrate on developing keyboarding skill by learning the alphabetic keyboard, top-row numbers, symbols, and the numeric keypad. Lessons 26-60 extend basic skills and teach the basics of document and word processing formats including block and modified block letters, memos, e-mails, simple reports, references, title pages, tables, and newsletters. This text is ideal for keyboarding programs that cover traditional skills and are devoted to teaching proper formatting techniques.
About the Author
Dr. Susie H. VanHuss received her B.S. degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and her MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. Her teaching specialties include business communications, administrative systems, and personnel management. Her work, published by South-Western, includes textbooks in communications, keyboarding and word processing, and office technology. She has written numerous journal articles and has served on the editorial review boards of several leading business education journals. Dr. Connie M. Forde is a full professor in the Department of Instructional Systems and Workforce Development at Mississippi State University. She serves as curriculum coordinator and advises masters and doctoral students in the instructional technology programs. Dr. Forde is also the faculty advisor of Pi Omega Pi, the honorary society for business teacher education. She is coauthor of the College Keyboarding series published by South-Western/Cengage Learning, as well as numerous word processing and integrated computer applications simulations. Dr. Donna L. Woo is an Instructor and Department Coordinator for Information Systems/Office Automation for Cypress College and Associate Director of Education at Pacific College. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Business Education from Michigan State University and earned her Ed.D. from Nova University. Her industry experience includes work for both IBM and General Motors. A respected author, Dr. Woo has written several word processing textbooks and has served as a coauthor on several editions of South-Western College Keyboarding textbooks.
Table of Contents
'\'\\\"We have always used South-Western keyboarding books. To us at Columbus State Community College, they are the \\\"signature\\\" keyboarding books. We have always liked the layout and color schemes presented.\\\"\\\"I do like the way the books are organized. It is easy to find information by using the index and/or table of contents. I love the reference pages in the back of the book. I teach my students to always look things up. By having the info in one place, makes it easy for my students. I like the exercises that force a student to look up formatting. So many times the students just want to type right from the book without making decisions.\\\"\\\"The flow seems to be sequential and the directions were good. The software is so different, but I was able to locate what I needed to do the work. It is going to be a huge learning curve for faculty and students who are accustomed to using a previous version of Word. I think the amount of functions covered per lesson were appropriate--not too many or too few.\\\"\\n
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