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Reviews (3)

A Good Help
The typing program includes simple but progressive lessons that can be accomplished at your own pace giving you freedom to try and try again.It was easy to load to our computer and find our way around the program.The games included were a nice break from the plain lessons but kids used to video games might be disappointed with the graphics.The music included with the practice lessons is relaxing and not monotonous.My husband uses it and my teenager both hoping toincrease their speed and accuracy (and for a little down time in front of the computer screen).Overall a helpful product.

This book fetches results
My typing speed and accuracy have improved tremendously since I've read this book. On 3 minutes passage typing, my accuaracy jumped from 88% to 100% and my speed perked up from 20WPM to 360WPM.

By far the easiest typing course
I'm not usually one to write reviews, but I'm so impressed with this course I think it's a shame no-one has reviewed it yet. In fact, we've hardly used the book as the CD ROM does it all for you.
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Reviews (4)

Incredible Companion!
This book is the best self-training material ever... the simplicity of the instructions and the order of lessons give a sense of smooth progression!

Mastering Computer Typing
This book is written to give beginner and expert guidance in typing.It is well written.

Computer Students Learn Quickly from Book
I am teaching a group of adults computer keyboarding for the workplace.This is by far the best book for the task.The excercises are practical.The spiral bound book makes an excellent desktop companion. ... Read more

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Reviews (2)

It really does help!
I thought I had maxed out my typing speed and accuracy when I started using this book in college. While I absolutely detest the drills, especially the backward drills, it has really helped to increase both my speed and accuracy in a mere month! My disk that came with my book got cracked however, so now I am trying to locate a new disk, without luck at this point.

A warning
This book is extremely difficult to use without the software,and the software sells separately... The diagnostic charts areactually quite useful, but it is a tremendous waste of time to navigate through all the computations manually.The best use of this book, without the software, is for practice drills.... Beware. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Dictation (Office practice)    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical History & Records    6. Medical Secretaryship    7. Medical secretaries    8. Medical writing    9. Reference    10. Typewriting    11. Medical / Allied Health Services / Medical Assistants   

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Reviews (3)

Saving Keystrokes
Very helpful if you are in medical transcription.I am not sure how this would work if you were in another field, but for med trans, it is well worth the money.

I found it very useful!
I bought this book about six months ago and have absolutely written all over it!When I saw that the only review on it was rather negative in tone, I was inspired to present my own opinion.I am a working medical transcriptionist and I have used Ms. Rolland's techniques since day one and continue to add more shortcuts to my expander list every day.It has shaved so much time off my transcriptions.I have written extensively in the "white space" as I took the shortcuts I already used and expanded them as she explains with her technique.Although it seems that it would have been lovely to have long lists of shortcuts provided, I agree with the author that providing already-assembled lists of shortcuts would have done very little good. Instead, Ms. Rolland teaches you a technique to develop your own list of shortcuts.I have used many shortcuts that she has suggested and typed them into my own lists, with any changes I deem necessary for the accounts that I actually type for.I have inherited from other transcriptionists their lists of shortcuts and have found them to be extremely non-helpful and in some ways even harmful.The author really wants you to use YOUR thought process in developing shortcuts that work for you, not for her. For example, I am extremely left-handed (my right hand is very weak and not very coordinated), so most of my shortcuts are weighted toward using the left hand: hx for hospital, sx for surgery, rx for prescription, dx for diagnosis, ds for diabetes, etc., etc., etc.But, when I talk to other people, they are shocked because they would never use that many x's.They hate trying to hit the x. Also, your own shortcuts -- that work with the way your brain thinks -- are much easier to remember.I have tried to remember other MTs shortcuts, and I can never think of them.For example, cmpy is cardiomyopathy for me, which really does not make a lot of sense, hoty is hypothyroidism (ditto), apth is adenopathy and so on.
Rather Useless
Production medical transcriptionists, the tens of thousands of hard-working women and men who document your medical history, know that the key to making a living wage in this era of off-shoring, voice recognition, and EMR experiments, is the use of a word expander, software which converts 'tpcosob' to "The patient complains of shortness of breath."Yet most medical transcription schools and community colleges fail to teach students to use these valuable tools.Diana Rolland wants hers to be the textbook these schools will use when they wake up to the realities of 21st-century transcription.Unfortunately, the book is poorly written and provides little information that can't easily be found on the internet at http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/index.php or many other sites by googling 'medical transcription productivity' or 'medical transcription expanders.'One should also explore the web sites for the expanders themselves:Instant Text, Shorthand, and Stedman's SmarType being the ones most frequently used by working MTs.Once again the publisher, Stedman's, proves how out of touch it is with the needs of the working MT:This text could have been made marginally useful with the inclusion of a CD-ROM containing a complete, sensibly worked-out beginning glossary list (in each of the above 3 expander formats) incorporating all the standard sentence particles that comprise the bulk of the reports we transcribe, as well as names of diseases, drugs, and equipment, so that those new to expander use don't have to reinvent the wheel.Instead, white space abounds on the majority of the pages as the author has provided hundreds of blank lines so that the reader can work out her or his own short forms and expansions following the examples given.Trees are crying over the publication of this text; if you must buy it, please buy it used. ... Read more

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Reviews (2)

type with one hand
type with one hand by Richardson, Nina, Richardson 199

Great for late nights on the Web
This book helped me to keep one hand free while I browsed the web with the other hand. My favourite technique is the combined use of the right hand on the mouse and keyboard, leaving the left hand free. Especially important isthe use of the Shift and Control keys with one hand and without having tolook away from the monitor. ... Read more

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Keyboarding Made Simple: Learn the best techniques of keyboarding like a pro
I purchased this book for use with a teenager in a shelter.It is very easy to follow and he can actually self teach when I am not present.

Just started reading this but....
As an adult computer user that needs to improve my keyboarding skills from advanced "hunt and peck" to full touch-typing this is just the book I needed.
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Buy It !!
I have never taken a typing class, so when I needed to learn how to type , I turned to severalpopular software programs. Although, I found these products helpful, I was not able to progress beyond a certain point until I purchased Cortez Peters' Championship Keyboarding drills. Once I started Cortez Peters' I showed immediate improvement inmy accuracy and to a lesser extent my speed. I found it clearly more effective than any software program available. ... Read more

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