Use of appropriate reference books is integrated throughout the course. Note - This course is required for Medical Office Assistant AAS Degree. This course is designed to acquaint the student with the mechanics involved in producing effective correspondence from cassette dictation machines. It places emphasis on developing the mechanics of communication as well as producing mailable transcribed material at a competent rate on computers using word processing software. A one-semester course introducing keyboarding on the computer.
Students learn the alphabetic, numeric, and symbol keys.
The emphasis of the course is on practical usage of keyboarding skill in preparing college-style papers and job application letters. Open to all students except Office Technology, Office Assistant and medical Assistant majors. The emphasis of the course is on learning correct typing techniques on the microcomputer. Alphanumeric keypad operations will be covered. Correct formatting of correspondence such as letters and research papers will be covered.