Keyboarding Made Simple: Learn the best techniques for keyboarding like a pro - Softcover

Leigh E. Zeitz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767917057 ISBN 13: 9780767917056

Publisher: Broadway, 2005

Synopsis

Leave hunt-and-peck to the chickens. Effective and efficient keyboarding is more than tapping the correct letter. Designed for individual and classroom use, this book teaches you to react to letters instead of finding them on the keyboard. This breakthrough guide brims with step-by-step exercises for keyboarding with ease. Develop your digital dexterity with Keyboarding Made Simple. Topics covered include:

• correct body positioning and posture
• basic letters, numbers, and symbols
• faster keyboarding using AutoWords and AutoBlends
• using text alignment and justification
• envelopes and letters
• using columns to create newsletters
• avoiding common errors
• mastering the keypad
• handling electronic communication

About this title

About the Author

LEIGH EDWARD ZEITZ, Ph.D. is an associate professor of educational technology at the University of Northern Iowa. He has written seven books and more than sixty articles on technology.

From the Inside Flap

<p>A new book for a necessary skill<br>A twenty-first-century revision of the popular <i>Touch Typing Made Simple</i> (over a million copies in print), this breakthrough guide brims with step-by-step exercises for keyboarding with ease. Practice drills make sure the lessons stick. Now anyone can produce error-free text in a flash.</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadway
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0767917057
• ISBN 13: 9780767917056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256