Product Description

Introduce students to the keyboarding with COLLEGE KEYBOARDING 17E: KEYBOARDING COURSE, LESSONS 1-25. This brief text emphasizes new-key learning and skill building while teaching the alphabetic keys, numeric keys, symbols, as well as the numeric keypad. Combined with the fun and engaging Keyboarding Pro 5, this package builds a strong keyboarding foundation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #173036 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 128 pages

Review
"I do like the way the books are organized. It is easy to find information by using the index and/or table of contents. I love the reference pages in the back of the book. I teach my students to always look things up. By having the info in one place, makes it easy for my students. I like the exercises that force a student to look up formatting. So many times the students just want to type right from the book without making decisions. In the beginning lessons, I like how the new keys and information are introduced. I love KeyPro."

Review
"I do like the way the books are organized. It is easy to find information by using the index and/or table of contents. I love the reference pages in the back of the book. I teach my students to always look things up. By having the info in one place, makes it easy for my students. I like the exercises that force a student to look up formatting. So many times the students just want to type right from the book without making decisions. In the beginning lessons, I like how the new keys and information are introduced. I love KeyPro."

"This software is the foundation of all four of our keyboarding courses, especially the self-paced courses. We like it very much."

"We have always used South-Western keyboarding books. To us at Columbus State Community College, they are the ’signature’ keyboarding books. We have always liked the layout and color schemes presented."

About the Author
Dr. Susie H. VanHuss, Retired Executive Director of University of South Carolina Foundations and Distinguished Professor Emerita of Management of USC, previously served as Professor and Head of the Management Department in The Moore School of Business. She received her B.S. degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and her MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. Her teaching specialties include business communications, administrative systems, and personnel management. Dr. VanHuss is a prolific author who has received a Gold Book award commemorating the sale of a million copies of one of her textbooks. Her work, published by South-Western, includes textbooks in communications, keyboarding and word processing, and office technology. She has written numerous journal articles and has served on the editorial review boards of several leading business education journals.

Dr. Connie M. Forde is a full professor in the Department of Instructional Systems, Leadership, and Workforce Development at Mississippi State University where she teaches and advises in the technology teacher education and information technology services degree programs and the master's and doctoral programs in technology. She has served as co-author on the COLLEGE KEYBOARDING team for several editions as well as co-authored a number of word processing and integrated applications simulations. Dr. Forde is a recognized speaker and contributor to the professional literature. Additionally, she has served as president of both the National Business Education Association and the Southern Business Education Association.

Dr. Donna L. Woo is an Instructor and Department Coordinator for Information Systems/Office Automation for Cypress College and Associate Director of Education at Pacific College. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Business Education at Michigan State University and has her Ed.D. from Nova University. Donna is a Kellogg Fellow, a member of Phi Kappa Phi, and Delta Pi Epsilon. Her industry experience includes working for IBM and General Motors. She has authored several word processing textbooks and worked on several editions of COLLEGE KEYBOARDING.

Dr. Linda Hefferin is a Professor in Business Management at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois.

Customer Reviews

Great resource to make you into a speedy typer!
I used this book and software for a keyboarding course but I didn't expect my typing to improve much. I am surprised and happy to report that the lessons were so thorough and effective that my typing speed went from ~50 words per minute to over 100 words per minute. That's a HUGE difference to me, especially since I was never a slow typer. If I can improve this much, I know it is an effective tool - goes over virtually the entire keyboard so you get practice reaching for all keys. Includes games at the end of the lessons that make it fun - particularly for kids (but even for adults!).

The spiral bound lesson book is amazing - it stands up on its own so that you can sit at your computer and look over to the book while typing - and then flip pages over as needed.

Highly recommended!

excellent condition
The book arrived in excellent codition.....It was a week after I ordered it that I received my book.

CD Missing
The seller was prompt in mailing this item however the CD was not included with the book as it should have been. I returned the book and the seller was prompt in refunding my purchase.