Overview

Help your students master the keyboarding and word processing skills they need for career success! The Eighteenth Edition of KEYBOARDING AND WORD PROCESSING COMPLETE COURSE, LESSONS 1-120 uses proven techniques to guide students from initial new-key learning to expertise in creating business documents with Microsoft(R) Word 2010. South-Western College Keyboarding offers a time-tested pedagogy that helps students develop a strong foundation in basic keyboarding, steadily improve their skills, and rapidly become proficient in document formatting, proofreading, and business communication. Each lesson is clearly focused, well structured, and designed to provide step-by-step training and reinforcement to help students quickly acquire and apply new skills. Based on customer feedback, the complete course is divided into two semesters with 55 lessons each, plus a set of supplemental lessons to complete the Microsoft Office Specialist certification. This comprehensive text combines all of the lessons and learning tools you will need for your course within a space-saving easel-back format. Lessons 1-25 concentrate on building fundamental keyboarding skills by mastering the alphabetic keyboard, top-row numbers, symbols, and the numeric keypad. Lessons 26-55 teach the basics of document formats and word processing, including block and modified block letters, memos, tables, and graphics. Lessons 56-110 cover document design, mail merge, advanced graphics, meeting documents and collaboration, legal and medical documents, and employment documents. The final 10 lessons include material to help students pursue Microsoft Office Specialist certification.

Full Product Details

9780538496476

Table of Contents

Reviews

Level I: DEVELOPING KEYBOARDING SKILL. 1. Alphabetic Keys. 2. Figure and Symbol Keys. Level II: WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT DESIGN. 3. Word 2010 Basics. 4. Memos and Letters. 5. Tables. 6. Reports. 7. Graphics. 8. Review. Project 1: TruAcc, Inc. Level III: DOCUMENT DESIGN MASTERY. 9. Word 2010 Review. 10. Memos and Letters. 11. Organize Tables. 12. Reports. 13. Mail Merge. Project 2: Palm Beach Pet Center I. Level IV: ADVANCED DOCUMENT PROCESSING. 14. Documents with Graphics. 15. Meeting Documents and Collaboration. 16. Legal and Medical Documents. 17. Employment Documents. 18. Review and Assessment. Project 3: Palm Beach Pet Center II. 19. Mastering Word Commands. 20. Sharing and Maintaining Documents. Reference Guide. Summary of Commands. Index.

I am very satisfied with the proposed new text. The scope and sequence of lessons are appropriate and logical. The additional software is a plus. The WebReporting is very valuable. - Martha Harpole, Hinds Community College

Author Information

Dr. Susie H. VanHuss received her B.S. degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and her MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. Her teaching specialties include business communications, administrative systems, and personnel management. Her work, includes textbooks in communications, keyboarding and word processing, and office technology. She has written numerous journal articles and has served on the editorial review boards of several leading business education journals. Dr. Connie M. Forde is a full professor and head of the Department of Instructional Systems and Workforce Development at Mississippi State University, where she leads undergraduate programs in information technology services, business technology teacher education, and industrial technology, as well as graduate programs in instructional technology. Dr. Forde also continues to advise doctoral students on their dissertation research. Prior to her tenure at Mississippi State University, she was a business teacher at both the community college and secondary levels. She earned her B.S. and M.Ed. degrees in business education from the University of Southern Mississippi and her Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Forde serves as coauthor of the COLLEGE KEYBOARDING series and a variety of word processing and integrated applications textbooks and simulations. She is a recognized contributor to the professional literature and a speaker at state, regional, and national conferences. Additionally, she has served as president of the National Business Education Association, Southern Business Education Association, and National Council of Pi Omega Pi, and chair of the Foundation for the Future of Business Education. Donna L. Woo is an instructor and department coordinator for Information Systems/Office Automation at Cypress College and associate director of education at Pacific College. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in business education from Michigan State University and earned her Ed.D. from Nova University. Her industry experience includes work for both IBM and General Motors. A respected author, Dr. Woo has written several word processing textbooks and has served as a coauthor on several editions of South-Western COLLEGE KEYBOARDING textbooks.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available