Course Overview

Develop your skills and understanding of routine and complex business documents and the conventions used in their production and presentation. Successful completion of this course will enable you to work towards further qualifications.

Aims and Objectives

• To prepare those who wish to take the OCR Text Production examination at level 2 (mandatory unit of the Text Processing Certificate or Diploma)
• The opportunity to gain a Level 2 unit qualification.
• The flexibility and value of a 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

Those who wish to gain an OCR Level 2 Certificate or Diploma in Text Processing.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with a word processing program and keyboarding skills.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Including: Keying in a business letter using the correct layout, keying in a memo and a report, recognising spelling errors and correcting them, correctly expand abbreviations, changing line spacing within a document, emphasising text as instructed.

Lesson 2: Including: Recognising and interpreting amendment and correction signs in order to produce correct copy, producing a letter and memo that include a special mark, locating and incorporating a forward date, keying in a report with a change of line spacing.

Lesson 3: Including: Producing documents from written draft that includes special marks and continuation pages, recognising and correcting errors of agreement, transposing text vertically, inserting missing punctuation, locating and correctly inserting text not included in the written draft, being aware of the importance of consistency of style in relation to figures.

Lesson 4: Including: Keying in a letter, memo and report observing all instructions, locating and correctly inserting information contained in another document. Completing the three documents within 1¼ hours. Revision of all topics covered in the course.