Many types and variations of exercises can be used for dictation practice. An introduction to dictation should be included in communication classes to provide students with training for effective and efficient communication. (JOW)

Includes suggestions for how to read manuscripts correctly (what parts should be checked) and ways in which teachers can use visual aids to help students learn proofreading marks. (SH)

Keyboarding is an important skill that teachers often have limited time to teach. Software packages offer ways to analyze learners' skill levels, identify weaknesses, and generate structured individualized learning materials and prompts. (SK)

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)

Thirteen projects encourage thinking and composing at the typewriter. (AG)

Describes various class activities that teachers can use to help students develop good interpersonal skills. (CH)

This article provides information about teaching keyboarding as a one-week course. Before discussing the results of the one-week course, however, the differences between keyboarding and typewriting are addressed, as well as the appropriate content of a true keyboarding course. (CT)

Suggestions are presented for making training in report and manuscript typing more realistic and transferable to real-world typing tasks. (HD)

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)