Course Overview
Increase your typing speed to 55-60 words per minute and greatly improve your accuracy. This course is ideal for those in a secretarial or PA position. Successful completion of this course will enable you to work towards further qualifications.
Aims and Objectives
To increase keyboarding speed to a minimum of 50 wpm by the end of the course.
The flexibility and value of self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace.
A personalised workbook to use as a reference guide on completion of the course.
The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate.
Target Audiences
Secretaries and other individuals for whom typing is a major part of their job function.
Prerequisites
Ability to touch-type at around 35 wpm. Ideally students should have completed the Faster Keyboarding Part 1 on-line course.
Course duration
8-10 hours
Course Code
1010198803
Course Content
Lesson 6: Speed development exercises; calculating typing speed; keying in at 35-40 wpm; punctuation rules.
Lesson 7: Speed development exercises; correcting errors; keying in at 40-45 wpm; business memo layout.
Lesson 8: Speed development exercises; business letter layout; preparing the agenda for a meeting; keying in at 45-50 wpm.
Lesson 9: Speed development exercises; practising using all the alphabetical keys; keying in at 50-55 wpm; keying in at a steady pace.
Lesson 10: Speed development exercises; changing the display from single to double line spacing; changing the display from double to single line spacing; keying in at 55-60 wpm.
