Pretranscription, the individual skills needed to produce a mailable typewritten letter from shorthand notes, should be included in each semester of shorthand instead of just in the final class, according to this article. The author suggests strategies for teaching such elements as spelling, punctuation, and mailability and offers a guideline for…

Discusses a systems approach to accounting instruction and examines it from the viewpoint of four components: people (titles and responsibilities, importance of interaction), forms (nonpaper records such as microfiche, floppy disks, hard disks), procedures (for example, electronic funds transfer), and technology (for example, electronic…

A program covering the duties and knowledge required of a legal secretary. (MS)

Discusses an effective simulated program that can be integrated into almost any business and office education class. Presents four goals to be achieved: (1) understanding computer operation, (2) introduction of computer languages, (3) input data, (4) retrieving data. (JOW)

Suggests that a direct approach to developing positive job attitudes can be successful in office machines classes, as well as others offering individualized instruction. Includes checklists to stimulate thinking and to make students aware of positive job attitudes and work habits. (JOW)

A virtually unlimited array of teaching-learning methods, materials, and media is available to the typewriting teacher and should be utilized in typewriting speed and control building. (Author)

A simulated office experience in which the students, as employees, received pay checks, learned how to handle a checking account, and paid bills from their checks is advocated as a means of adding realism to a business class. (BP)

Suggested ways of introducing "realism" into the classroom by exposing students to the problems, jargon, and forms used by a variety of businesses using the "in-basket" on simulated projects. (HD)

Five principles of learning and their application to typewriting are considered; before they can be utilized, however, one must be sure students want to learn. To accomplish this task, seven principles of motivation are offered for incorporation into the typing course. Both sets must be considered together for optimum learning. (Author/AJ)

This section on occupational topics presents ten writers' on problems and methods of teaching in occupational Programs. (JS)

Forty right-handed high school and college students were trained to operate calculators with their left hands. Results suggest the possibility of improving office machine operating speed, without significant loss of accuracy, by instructing trainees to operate the keyboard with the alternate hand while recording information with the dominant hand.…