Briefly describes a variety of office equipment, including copiers, ditto machines, offset printers, typewriters, typesetting equipment, computers, and dictation equipment. (AEA)

After identifying six reasons why the traditional office is inefficient, the author offers six suggestions for coping with such inefficiency, emphasizing that word processing might be the answer since it enables a firm to obtain optimum benefits from personnel and equipment through carefully orchestrated procedures and controls. (HD)

An activity schedule slit board, used as a method for planning and assessing a student's work in transcription, is described. Appropriate exercises are assigned for such individual problem areas as grammar and sentence structure and errors in transcribing from shorthand. An example activity on the semicolon is provided. (TA)

A study sought to determine the change in speed and accuracy after 5 hours of practice on a standardized test for 10-key numeric entry at the community college level. Specifically it sought to determine how much speed and accuracy will increase or decrease after 5 hours of practice on a 10-key numeric entry test as compared to top-row numeric…

Although self-employment is a growing career option in Canada, many career practitioners find it personally difficult to make the leap from being an employee to starting a business. E-mail surveys completed by 13 self-employed career practitioners and counselors revealed six key factors that contributed to their business success: vision and…

The importance of Word Processing Centers, using automatic typewriters, in the business world and the implications for the office occupations education curriculum is considered. (AG)

Extra credit points are given to typing students for typing specified paragraphs without errors. (SC)

A plan is suggested incorporating a three-course track: personal typing (a beginning course for everyone), intermediate typing (for the undecided or nonvocational typist to improve skills and learn basic production tasks), and career typing (for learning work tasks necessary on the job with at least entry-level skills). (SC)

The positions of file clerk, receptionist, typist, office machines operator, and secretary were chosen for emphasis in the development of an elementary career education model. Topical packages and activity packages and a career laboratory were designed to promote career awareness for that age group in office education. (AG)

Gives the views of business task forces and educators on the value of having a superintendent with a business background. (JF)

A young white Harvard business graduate's experience in the ghetto is depicted as showing the way for large corporations to sponsor small, minority-run enterprises. (DM)

Describes and critiques four computer assisted instruction software packages designed to teach typing skills--TYPING TUTOR, MICROTYPING, TYPE-IT, and MASTER TYPE--and their prices and the microcomputers on which they can be used. A summary suggests eight improvements that could be made on some or all of the packages. (EAO)

Business educators must teach word-processing concepts to business administration students. While administrators are not the operators, they are the users in that they prepare material for input and use the output. (JOW)

Lists the assumptions shared by members of the business world and by scholars in the humanities, describes the business climate of the 1980s, and discusses the skills needed by humanities graduates to compete for jobs in business. (AEA)