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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Summer 2021
- Course Number:
- OS 220
- Course Title:
- Business Editing Skills
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 20
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Develops skills necessary for editing, transcribing, and writing memos, letters and email. Emphasis: punctuation, capitalization, spelling, grammar, and word use. Recommended: Placement into WR 121, keyboard by touch. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion, students should be able to:
- Use correct punctuation, capitalization, spelling, grammar, and word usage when editing, transcribing, or writing business documents.
- Think critically to produce mailable documents
Outcome Assessment Strategies
A letter grade will be issued for this course. Assessment tasks may include:
- Objective tests
- Performance tests at the computer
- Homework assignments
- Other assessment methods may also be used
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Apply grammar and punctuation rules to business documents
- Use reference materials
- Develop a business vocabulary
- Use proofreader marks when editing
- Produce mailable business documents
- Must include at least one of the following:
- Document transcription using a transcribing machine and tapes
- Document composition at the computer keyboard
- Document transcription from live dictation
Competencies, Skills:
- Apply proofreading techniques when creating, editing, or transcribing business documents.
- Consult a reference manual and dictionary to find answers to language usage questions.
- Analyze personal language usage errors.
- Demonstrate proper operating techniques when using a transcription machine to transcribe business documents (optional).