Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: User's Guide

Mavis Beacon TeachesTyping 12
Practice
Transcription Lessons:
Throughout your typing career you often work from printed text, whether it is letters,
manuscripts, or other documents. Occasionally, the program asks you to practice typing text
from your manual. Each of the following exercises are numbered and easily identified for those
occasions. You also use this text when constructing custom transcription lessons.
Note: Each of these exercises presents as many key combinations as possible and sometimes employ extra
punctuation for added practice. DO NOT use them for grammar or punctuation practice.
Exercise 1
Typing while looking at another page can be a challenge! However, businesses all across the
country expect this of a typist. Once you master the technique, it’s not only a challenge, but also a
lot of fun. If your boss hands you a messy, scratched-out handwritten scrap of paper that he wants
sent to a business associate, you know that a lot is riding on it.
Everything depends on you! There is a sense of pride a good typist feels in creating a beautifully
typed, finished letter or report (especially when he or she saw that “messy scrap” of paper that
originally contained the information)!
So, while the learning might go slowly and the road seems a long one as you begin to type, always
remember that this skill will make a great difference in your future. Whether you will be typing
office work, essays for school, or merely correspondence for yourself, your skill at typing will
increase your productivity while it perfects the presentation of your work.
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