Class Information

This semester-long course is designed to help students develop and enhance touch skills for entering alphabetic, numeric, and symbol information on a keyboard and apply keyboarding skills to produce a variety of personal and business documents. This area of instruction includes proper keyboarding techniques and formatting skills. Emphasis is on the daily use of a computer to develop skills and apply these skills to the production of business correspondence. Learning is continued in the areas of proofreading, basic business skills, and skill building in speed and accuracy.  

The demand will continue to grow for students prepared with proofreading, editing, and composition skills. The course content, which includes realistic tasks related to business occupations, helps prepare students for careers in business as well as postsecondary education.