Emphasis will be placed both on the creation of text material and graphic design incorporated with text. WPG221 Machine Transcription 4 Quarter Hours Develops the skill to process text from verbal to printed form by transcribing from recorded media on the typewriter or microcomputer. Students will transcribe actual business documents and incorporate the use of language skills, such as sentence structuring, spelling, grammar, punctuation, proofreading, and editing, into the documents they transcribe. WPG224 Advanced Document Processing 4 Quarter Hours Covers more advanced formatting skills in both simple and complex documents. Word processing features covered include newspaper columns, headers and footers, search and replace, graphic elements, and merge.
Students continue to improve keying accuracy and speed.
Final grade criteria are timed production work, text assignments, and speed requirements of 45 to 55 wpm and higher on acceptable five-minute timings. Document Processing Applications 4 Quarter Hours Provides a capstone course in which students work with a document processing simulation package. The simulation requires the student to integrate previously learned skills and develops the student's decision-making ability and the ability to handle more sophisticated document processing tasks. Final grading criteria are timed production work, simulation assignments, and speed requirements of 50 to 65 wpm and higher on acceptable five-minute timings. Desktop Publishing with PageMaker 4 Quarter Hours Combines text and graphics to produce professional-quality printed documents such as reports, brochures, advertisements, correspondence, and newsletters.