Publisher's Synopsis
Ease of use is key to your students success with Paradigm Keyboarding, Sixth Edition! In Sessions 1-30, students are drilled on new keys and move from keying letters to words to sentences. Sessions 31-33 focus on building keyboarding skills and Sessions 34-60 teach students Microsoft Word 2013 skills, such as how to create memos, emails, letters, tables, reports, and manuscripts.
- Keyboarding skills are introduced, developed, and continually reinforced.
- Correct finger positioning, speed, and accuracy are emphasized with key drills, speed drills, and positional reinforcement drills.
- 1-minute, 3-minute, and 5-minute timings are used to build speed and assess student progress.
- Pretest timings provide measure of student readiness for coursework and posttest timings measure student keyboarding success.
- Thinking drills and writing assignments develop critical thinking skills and keyboard composition skills.
- Microsoft Word 2013 features are introduced and skills are developed and continually reinforced.
- Correct formatting of memos, letters, emails, reports, manuscripts, and tables is emphasized and practiced.
- Students produce documents that combine keyboarding proficiency, Microsoft 2013 Word features, and critical thinking skills.
- Features live-in-the-application word processing using Microsoft Word 2013 (also compatible with Word 2010).
- Provides immediate feedback on speed and accuracy for all timings and production documents.
- Includes videos that demonstrate proper finger positioning.
- Incorporates diagnostic software that identifies keys that students struggle with and provides additional practice.
- Includes a new gradebook for assigning, grading, tracking student progress, and downloading results.
