Touch Typing in Ten Lessons: The Famous Ben'Ary Method -- The Shortest Complete Home-Study Course in the Fundamentals of Touch Typing

by Ruth Ben'ary

Overview

Do you need to learn to type in a hurry? Or do you just need a refresher course to practice with and tone up your skills?
This is the shortest typing course that covers all of the fundamental skills of touch typing. This classic handbook, which has literally taught more than a million people the basics of typing, can teach you too.

Touch Typing in 10 Lessons starts by teaching you the basic combinations for fingering the keyboard, and then helps you master the entire alphabet. Once you’ve learned the alphabet, the book jumps right into capitals, punctuation, and numbers.

Learning the keyboard is just the beginning. The book will teach you how to set up professional business letters and tricks to help you get the most out of your word processor. There are dozens out of your keystrokes. There are dozens of drills that will help you develop the accuracy and speed you need in school and at the office. Finally, there are practice tests that will help you get over fears concerning typing tests and that will help build up your speed on the keyboard.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399515293
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/19/1989
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	680,602
Product dimensions:	8.21(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.24(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ruth Ben’ary is the author of Touch Typing in Ten Lessons: The Famous Ben’ary Method—The Shortest Complete Home-Study Course in the Fundamentals of Touch Typing.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	3
	Definitions of the Major Functional Parts of the Typewriter	5
	Care of the Typewriter	6
	Preliminary Instructions	7
Lesson 1	Basic Horizontal Combinations	10
Lesson 2	Basic Diagonal Combinations	15
Lesson 3	Typing the Alphabet	22
Lesson 4	Capital Letters, Punctuation and Abbreviations; Ailments and Remedies	26
Lesson 5	Numerals, Punctuation and Special Characters	33
Lesson 6	Paragraph Practice and Alphabetic Sentences	41
Lesson 7	Skill and Speed Development	44
Lesson 8	Skill and Speed Development (Part 2)	48
Lesson 9	Business and Personal Letters	53
Lesson 10	Tricks of the Trade	68
	Supplementary Material	73
	Word Processors	79