Word Processing Syllabus for 2015-2016
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Course

POFI-2301-001 Word Processing

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Computer literacy and keyboarding skill of 30 wpm

Course Description

Word processing software focusing on business applications. This course is designed to be repeated multiple times to improve student proficiency.

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Hours

(3 sem hrs; 2 lec, 4 lab)

Class Type

On Campus Course

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

Textbook – Signature Series: Microsoft Word 2013 by Rutkosky and Roggenkamp, EMC Paradigm Publishing, Inc.,
ISBN# 978-0-76385-199-6

Current textbook selections are available at the Washington Street campus bookstore. The textbooks for this course are required.

Supplies

1. Textbook – Signature Series: Microsoft Word 2013 by Rutkosky and Roggenkamp, EMCParadigm Publishing, Inc., ISBN# 978-0-76385-199-6
2. Pens and pencils with eraser
3. 2 USB portable storage devices with a minimum 2GB

   Student Performance

   1. Reinforce beginning keyboarding knowledge and skills.
   2. Learn, practice, and apply word processing concepts and features.
   3. Demonstrate word processing proficiency through assessments and timed production tests.

   Students Rights and Responsibilities

   Student Rights and Responsibilities

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   In order to receive your AC Connect Email, you must log in through AC Connect at https://acconnect.actx.edu .

   If you are an active staff or faculty member according to Human Resources, use "Exchange". All other students, use "AC Connect (Google) Email".

   Expected Student Behavior

   \ PLAGIARISM, CHEATING AND INDIVIDUAL WORK ETHIC:  The Amarillo College policies and Code of Student Conduct are strictly adhered to when dealing with plagiarism, cheating, and duplication of work product.  Any evidence of plagiarism, cheating, or duplication of work product will result in a zero on the project or test in question.

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   \ Plagiarism is considered serious academic misconduct.  “Plagiarism” shall be defined as the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work.  All assignments presented in this class must be the work of the student submitting the assignment.  No form of scholastic dishonesty will be tolerated.  Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but not be limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion.

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   • \ Copying from another student’s test paper.
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   • \ Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test.
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   • \ Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an unadministered test.
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   • \ The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of the unadministered test.
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   • \ Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for oneself, to take a test.
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   • \ Bribing another person to obtain an unadministered test or information about an unadministered test.
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   \ “Collusion” shall be defined as the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements.

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   \ A complete statement regarding scholastic dishonesty can be found in the Student Code of Conduct in the Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook at

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   Grading Criteria

      5% Chapter Exercises
    15% Chapter/Unit Assessments

   80% Production Tests (3).

   100%  FINAL COURSE GRADE

   *Production tests are given on the date listed on the course schedule and tests cannot be made up without a penalty. Please check the schedule carefully so that you can plan accordingly.

    

    

    

   Attendance

   Employees in the business world are expected to be at work promptly each day; therefore, students in business classes are expected to be in class promptly each day. This class meets twice per week. After two absences for any reason, one point per absence will be deducted from the semester average. There are no excused absences. Three tardies equal one absence. If you are more than five minutes late to a class, it will be counted as an absence.

   Calendar

   POFI 2301 – WORD PROCESSING
   LESSON SCHEDULE, SPRING 2016

   WEEK 1:	Jan. 19         Jan. 21	Course Syllabus Getting Started (pp. xv-xxvii) Begin Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Exercises:  1.1A(NP)*, 1.1B, 1.2A(NP), 1.2B, 1.3A-B(NP), 1.4, 1.5, 1.6A-B(NP) Chapter 1 Assessments:  1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Chapter 2 Exercises:  2.1A-C(NP), 2.1D, 2.2A, 2.2B, 2.2C   Chapter 2 Assessments:  2.1 (2 printouts), 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
   WEEK 2:	Jan. 26     Jan. 28	Chapter 3 Exercises:  3.1A-E(NP), 3.1F, 3.2A-C(NP), 3.2D, 3.3A(NP), 3.3B   Chapter 3 Assessments:  3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 Chapter 4 Exercises:  4.1A(NP), 4.1B, 4.2A-B(NP), 4.2C, 4.3A-D(NP), 4.3E, 4.4A-B(NP), 4.4C, 4.5A(NP), 4.5B, 4.6A(NP), 4.6B                                                      Chapter 4 Assessments:  4.1, 4.2 (2 printouts), 4.3, 4.4
   WEEK 3:	Feb. 2       Feb. 4	Chapter 5 Exercises:  5.1, 5.2A(NP), 5.2B, 5.2C(NP), 5.3A, 5.3B-C(NP), 5.3D, 5.4A (2 printouts) Chapter 5 Assessments:  5.1, 5.2, 5.3   Preview Production Test #1 (Chapters 1-5)   Unit 1 Performance Assessments U1.1, U1.2, U1.3, U1.4, U1.5, U1.6, U1.7, U1.8
   WEEK 4:	Feb. 9   Feb. 11	Production Test #1 (Chapters 1-5)   Chapter 6 Exercises:  6.1A-C(NP), 6.1D, 6.2A, 6.2B(NP), 6.2C, 6.3A, 6.3B-C(NP), 6.3D, 6.4A(NP), 6.4B, 6.4C   Chapter 6 Assessments:  6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6

    

    

   WEEK 5:

   Feb. 16       Feb. 18

   Chapter 7 Exercises:  7.1A-B(NP), 7.1C, 7.2A, 7.2B, 7.2C, 7.3A-B(NP), 7.3C, 7.4A(NP), 7.4B Chapter 7 Assessments:  7.1, 7.2 (2 printouts), 7.3, 7.4   Chapter 8 Exercises:  8.1A-B(NP), 8.1C, 8.1D, 8.2A-D(NP), 8.2E   Chapter 8 Assessments:  8.1, 8.2

    

    

    

    

   WEEK 6:	Feb. 23         Feb. 25	Chapter 9 Exercises:  9.1A, 9.1B-C(NP), 9.1D, 9.1E, 9.1F(NP), 9.1G, 9.2A-B(NP), 9.2C), 9.3   Chapter 10 Exercises:  10.1A-G(NP), 10.1H, 10.2, 10.3A, 10.3B, 10.4, 10.5   Preview Production Test #2 (Chapters 6-10)   Unit 2 Performance Assessments U2.1, U2.2, U2.3, U2.4, U2.5, U2.6, U2.7, U2.8 (Chapters 6-10)
   WEEK 7:	Mar. 1   Mar. 3	Production Test #2 (Chapters 6-10)   Chapter 13 Exercises:  13.1A-B(NP) 13.1C, 13.2A, 13.2B, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5   Chapter 13 Assessments:  13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
   WEEK 8:	Mar. 8         Mar. 10	Chapter 14 Exercises:  14.1A-C(NP), 14.1D, 14.2A-C(NP), 14.2D (2 printouts), 14.3A(NP), 14.3B, 14.4A, 14.4B                          Chapter 14 Assessments:  14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5   Production Test #3—(Chapters 13-14)
   	Mar. 14-20	SPRING BREAK

    

    

   1. You will work on speedbuilding and take timed writings with each lesson.
   2. Your lab assignments are due at the time specified and 10 points will be deducted for each week that the assignment is late.
   3. Production Tests must be taken at the time designated.  The unit production grades will be averaged as your final documents.

   **This work will be completed independently; please read your instructor notes and follow the instructions given in the textbook carefully.  PLEASE ask any questions you might have.

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