Typewriting

Category: Vocational 
Master:  Technician
Skill Level:  2
Original Honor:  1929
Adventsource Honors Handbook PDF
Adventsource Catalog: #006500 Patch Order (must have approved order login) 
Wikibooks.org Article/Answer Key Typwriting
Originating Institution:   General Conference

Requirements:

1. Show how to clean, type properly and change ribbon on a typewriter.

2. Know the difference between a fabric and a carbon ribbon.

3. Identify the following parts of the typewriter and know their function:

a. Frame 
b. Keyboard 
c. Space bar 
d. Backspace key 
e. Shift keys and lock
f. Platen 
g. Impression control 
h. Margin stops 
i. Paper release
j. Leverline-space lever
k. Line-finder control
l. Paper centering scale
m. Cardholder
n. Paper bail lever
o. Pitch selection lever
p. Margin release

4. Know how to set tabs for tabulation. Properly type a tabulated page with at least four columns.

5. Show how to center information horizontally and vertically on paper.

6. Show how to construct block and indented style letters.

7. Operate a typewriter at a speed of forty words a minute on new material for five minutes with no more than five errors.