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Keyboarding Terms & Computing GWAM

Keyboarding Terms & Computing GWAM. 1.03 Apply the touch method in operating the keyboard while increasing speed and accuracy. Essential Question : What are the correct methods for calculating GWAM while increasing speed and accuracy using correct keyboarding techniques? . Technique.

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Keyboarding Terms & Computing GWAM

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  1. Keyboarding Terms & Computing GWAM 1.03 Apply the touch method in operating the keyboard while increasing speed and accuracy. Essential Question: What are the correct methods for calculating GWAM while increasing speed and accuracy using correct keyboarding techniques?

  2. Technique • The form and keying style that a typist uses while operating the keyboard.

  3. Touch-Method • To key by touch rather than by the hunt-and-peck method.

  4. Posture • The way the typist sits; the way the typist’s arms, wrists, fingers, and legs and feet are placed.

  5. WORK AREA • The arrangement of the keyboard, copy, mouse, and other materials on the desk.

  6. ALPHABETIC KEYS • Letter keys on the keyboard.

  7. ENTER/RETURN • Used to move the cursor down a line.

  8. Gwam • GWAM (Gross Words a Minute) is the number of keystrokes a typist can make in a timed period.

  9. Qwerty keyboard • The most commonly used keyboard arrangement.

  10. Space bar • Used to insert spaces between characters.

  11. accuracy • The ability to key text without errors.

  12. Timed writing • Typing copy for a timed period in order to figure your GWAM rate.

  13. Standard keyboarding word • Five characters or any combination of five characters and spaces.

  14. How to Determine keyboarding gwam • Type for a specific number of minutes (timed writing) as directed by your teacher. • Determine the number of standard keyboarding words you keyed. • Remember: Every five strokes (characters and spaces) count as one word. • Divide the total number of words keyed by the number of minutes that you were timed.

  15. Figuring gwam fora one-minute timed writing • If you typed 40 strokes (characters) in one minute, you would take 40/5 = 8 GWAM

  16. Figuring gwam fora Two-minute timed writing • If you typed 40 strokes (characters) in two minutes, you would take (40/5) ÷ 2 = 4 GWAM

  17. Figuring gwam fora Three-minute timed writing • If you typed 300 strokes (characters) in three minutes, you would take (300/5) ÷ 3 = 20 GWAM

  18. Figuring ToTaL Strokes For a One-Minute Timed Writing From gwam • If you typed 20 GWAM in one minute, you would take (20 *5) = 100 Strokes

  19. Figuring ToTaL Strokes For a Two-Minute Timed Writing From gwam • If you typed 90 GWAM in two minutes, you would take (90 *5) ÷ 2 = 225 Strokes

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