Proofreading is the precise and exacting process of examining a completed piece of work to detect all errors. Errors fall into one of five areas: (1) typing, (2) English, (3) content, (4) form, and (5) appearance. A check list of common proofreading errors is included. (JOW)

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…

Based on "Typing 2," Gregg's new second-year vocational typing book for high schools, this article discusses ways to use the textbook and what the teacher can do to support the spirit of realism, purpose, and efficiency that the author feels should dominate the vocational typing course. (TA)

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)

Describes a method of incorporating word processing concepts and skills into existing business courses, focusing on form letter processing. (SK)

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)