More typing related activities should be used by the classroom teacher. These include such varied activities as typing applicant blanks, proofreading, typing reports, and the purchase and servicing of typewriters. (BP)

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 9-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Tabulation. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide is devoted to the typing of tables. An introductory segment indicating the steps for tabulation is followed by worksheets divided into the four parts of tabulation: main headings, subheadings, column headings, and columns. The worksheets…

Guidelines are provided for reducing superfluous production techniques and for concentrating instead on the principal objectives of personal use typing: (1) Development of student keyboard typing skill and (2) student comprehension of essential copy placement rules. (TA)

The procedures and advantages of the gross speed--two percent-of-error method in scoring typewriting timed writings are presented. The method makes allowance for errors according to the number of opportunities for error. A mailing address for the typing scoring chart and further information on the method is included. (AG)

A course of study for teaching duplicating machines in a typewriting class is described. (SC)

An illustrated score sheet is included in this discussion of a method of teaching number typing using number drill sheets for six minutes of each class period. (TA)

Ten common typewriting errors are listed based on an analysis of student papers. (HD)

The first in a series of six articles on typewriting as a communication skill, covering the state of language skills and the use of the typewriter to improve reading. (HD)

Selected factors of practice promoting typewriting skill are: practice is no guarantee of learning; nonrepetitive practice is better than repetitive; mentally rehearsing a skill task is beneficial; little or no improvement takes place without knowledge of results, and; plateaus in motor skill learning may be indicative of practice limit.…

For the beginning typist the transition from the printed copy to original composition is difficult. Interest and enthusiasm for original composition at the typewriter may be created with use of "Thought Starters."

Trying to teach a one-handed person to type in the same fashion as a two-handed person is a mistake. Each handicapped person has to adapt to his own capabilities. The writer outlines the stages she went through in learning to type with one hand. (Author/KP)

This article is an abstract of Dr. Langford's doctoral dissertation completed at Syracuse University. The primary purpose of the study was to ascertain and contrast the measurable effects, if any, of chaining" upon stroking speed and accuracy. (Author/JS)

The following seven practice patterns, which are designed to improve typewriting skills and which fit basic requirements for all practice routines are described: 12-Second Sprints, 30-Second Sprints, 1-Minute Piecemeals, The Blitz, Double Timed Writing, Selective Practice, and Proportional Practice. (TA)

Supporting performance objective 77 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on typing tabulated information, such as tables, columns, or rows of figures are included in this packet. (The packet is the eighth in a set of fifteen on…

Notes that in a good production typing program that builds significant keystroking skills along with high-level production skills, quality of typing work plus the time required to complete that quality work must be adequately reflected. Essential conditions of production typing are outlined. (HD)