Jon Todd Rickman
ABSTRACT
Word Processing is one of the fastest growing applications of computer technology in the world today. Academic and administrative word processing services can be supplied by stand-alone, central logic, and general computing equipment. The authors believe that schools that have found justification for teaching typing, keypunching or data entry courses in the past will find even greater justification for academic offerings that include at least the concepts of word processing. Such offerings will require planning to reduce total campus-wide expenditures for word processing and data entry equipment.Administrative uses of word processing are expanding in most institutions of higher education. Such systems need to communicate with computer stored files and have variable demands on the quality of word processing output.This paper will make the following distinction between data entry and word processing. Data entry involves record-oriented dated which are recorded and then manipulated further by traditional data processing. Word processing includes recording natural language text which in itself is the end product, a printed document.Curricula in institutions of higher education and post-secondary vocational training schools often include one or more degrees which emphasize secretarial skills and may include data entry using keypunch, key to disc, or key to tape equipment. We believe that such programs soon should be expanded to reflect the fact that use of word processing equipment is expected to continue to increase at a phenomenal growth rate.
- Sunkel, Rickman, and Hobbs, "Computer Support for Courses in Data Entry and Word Processing," Proceedings, National Educational Computing Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, June 25-27, 1979.Google Scholar
- Rickman and Hobbs, "An Evaluation of Word Processing Printer Quality," in preparation.Google Scholar
- WORD11 (word processing for RSTS/E), Data Processing Design, Inc., 181 West Orangethorpe, Suite F, Placentia, California 92670, Telephone: 714-993-4160.Google Scholar
- Word processing and data entry computing services
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