Computer Keyboarding 1 Online
October 23-29

Lesson 26 | Orientation to Proofreading Checks | Proofreading Checks
Correspondence 31-3, Letter | Lesson 27 |Correspondence 32-8, Business Letter | Lesson 28
Correspondence 33-9, Envelope | Correspondence 33-10, Envelope
Correspondence 33-11, Labels
 

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Lesson 26-A B C

Lesson 26-D, 3-Minute Timed Writing
TW Goal: 30/5e
We are going to SKIP REPORTS for now and return to them towards the end of the semester since they are more difficult to type. You will be typing correspondence (letters and memos) followed by tables and then reports in the next few weeks. Just follow the assignment sheet carefully as you will be moving around the textbook quite a bit from now on. You will be typing the skillbuilding drills in order, but moving around the lessons out of order for documents.
Proofreading Checks

View "Orientation to Proofreading Checks"

Five documents have been designated on the Assignment Sheet as Proofreading Checks. This orientation will help you understand Proofreading Check documents including how they are created by you using the online Reference Manual and your textbook, scored by GDP, and assigned two grades by me.

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To view "Orientation to Proofreading Checks," click here. This PowerPoint presentation may take a few minutes to start. If you want to print this presentation, right-click the desired link and choose Print Target.
bulletEach Proofreading Check document must be proofread with 100% accuracy and have zero scoring errors on the first scored attempt. If any errors are scored, 1% point will be deducted from your final grade average. To make up a lost point, you may recreate the document and try again.

bulletDeductions. If there are any typos on the first scored attempt on a proofreading check document, 1% will be deducted from your final average up to 5% total at my discretion. 
  
If you finish a document and are not yet ready to score it, click No when you exit and are prompted to score. I count scored attempts only, not unscored attempts.
  
bulletTo earn back a lost proofreading point, click Create to delete and recreate the Proofreading Check document. If it is scored with zero errors, you regain the lost proofreading point.

bulletExtra Credit. If you proofread any documents other than those designated as proofreading checks with zero errors on the first attempt, from 0.5 to 1.5% of extra credit will be added to your final average. These extra credit points will help cancel out any proofreading deductions.
Document Editing and Proofreading

You must recreate a proofreading check document or edit a regular document until it is perfect—no typos and no formatting errors. If the format is perfect and there are no typos, you will earn a grade of A for formatting. Whenever you need to review the errors you made in a document after you have closed the document, do the following:

bulletClick Portfolio.
bulletClick the desired document and click View Text to display your scored document.
bulletClick Return to Program to return to the Lesson Menu.

I will grade the last attempt you make on all documents when assigning a formatting grade. To edit the document, reselect the document and click the Edit button to reopen the document. Continue editing the document until the format is perfect and there are no typos.

Lesson 31-f, Basic Parts of a Business Letter

Lesson 31-g, Business Letters in Block Style
Lesson 31, Correspondence 31-3, Proofreading Check
Business Letter in Block Style
When you are prompted to type your reference initials in the Personal Information window, type your first and last initials in lowercase, no spaces, no periods, and no parenthesis.

Be sure to type the date as shown in the textbook rather than using the Insert Date feature. Use Insert Date only when you want to insert the current date in a letter.

Click the thumbnail picture to the right to see a full-sized view of Letter 31-3.

bulletIf you enter reference initials incorrectly, click Options, Personal Information, and click in the Your initials box. Type your initials correctly there and click OK.
bulletWhen a letter is scored that includes reference initials, the initials that you type in Personal Information must match the reference initials you type in the letter or you will have a scoring error.
Lesson 27-A B C 

Lesson 27-D+, Language Arts
Repeat this drill until you have two errors maximum.

Lesson 32-h, Enclosure Notation

Lesson 32, Correspondence 32-8, Proofreading Check
Business Letter in Block Style

Remember to type your reference initials in this letter exactly the same way as you typed them in Options, Personal Information, Your initials box. When you type your reference initials and press Enter to move to the next line to type the enclosure notation, Word might change the first initial of your reference initials to uppercase. Word's "AutoCorrect" feature is trying to make sure that the first word in a new line is capitalized. You can either correct the capitalization when you're done; or as soon as you notice the auto correction, click the Undo button or press Ctrl-Z. If you want to permanently stop AutoCorrect, in Word click Tools, AutoCorrect Options, and uncheck all the boxes as shown in the screen shot at the right.
Lesson 28-A B C D E F  Return to top of page

Lesson 28-G, 3-Minute Timed Writing
TW Goal: 31/5e

Lesson 33-e, Envelopes

Lesson 33-f, Labels

Lesson 33-g, Folding Letters
Lesson 33-H, Word Processing: Envelopes and Labels
Practice Exercises (optional)
Lesson 33, Correspondence 33-9
Envelope

Lesson 33, Correspondence 33-10
Envelope

Lesson 33, Correspondence 33-11, Proofreading Check
Mailing Labels

Note: You must manually name this document correctly or it will not be saved in GDP and you will lose your work. Follow GDP directions carefully to name it Correspondence 33-11. Review Lesson 22 in the Word Manual, Save a File, if you need to review saving a file.
Note: To create a page of labels with different information on each label, follow the steps in the Practice exercise, pp. 71-72 in the Word Manual.
 

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