5,000 Words

Okay, first of all, don't upload this too quickly. The teacher will get suspicious. Also, make sure that you indent the paragraphs, and bold the pretest/posttest things. So, I hope this helps. By the way, I do not own this; this is just a 5,000 word essay that takes like a month to get done. If you go to CMSE or CMSW then this is for you. If your teacher asks who made this, say that I moved. Cause I did.

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5,000 WORD ASSIGNMENT
YOUR NAME HERE YOUR HOUR HERE
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I know you are curious about how championship typing was acquired by my family, and it is a very interesting story which I will be delighted to share with you. My paternal grandfather was a watchmaker. One day a man brought his watch for repairs. A week later he came to reclaim his watch, but he did not have sufficient funds to pay for it. However, he had a typewriter, and offered to exchange his typewriter for his watch. In those days, bartering was a common practice, so my grandfather agreed to the exchange.


At the time my father was eleven years old and began tinkering with the typewriter. Then he began picking out his lessons, using only two or three fingers. His mother, noticing his fascination with the typewriter, purchased a typing book for him so he could learn to use all of his fingers in a systematic manner. My father then taught himself how to type. He became so fluent in his typing that his typing teacher was amazed. At the age of fifteen, my father could type at the rate of eighty net words a minute on ten minute timing. Not satisfied with eighty words a minute, my father approached his teacher as to what he could do to increase his speed to one hundred words a minute. His teacher, not knowing anything about championship typing techniques and methods, told my father to practice three hours every day for an entire year, which means my father practiced more than one thousand hours.

My father was overjoyed at the prospect of being able to type one hundred words a minute at the age of sixteen. He could hardly wait to get home and begin practicing. My father did not want to take the chance of being one or two words short of his goal, so since he did not have to attend school on Saturdays, he decided that instead of practicing three hours he would practice four or five. According to my father, he practiced assiduously, and it was the longest year of his life. Finally, the year ended, and he rushed to school to take ten-minute timing. Much to his amazement and disgust, he typed exactly eighty net words a minute. Despite practicing a great deal more than a thousand hours, he had not gained a single word in speed. I am certain you can imagine how he felt. He had wasted a year of his life, all for nothing! Fortunately for my father, the world champion typist came to my father’s high school. You can imagine who the first student was to greet the champion!

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The world champion at the time was George Hossfield. My father told his sad story of practicing for more than a thousand hours without gaining a single word. The champion felt sorry for my father and asked him to sit at his typewriter so he could ascertain what my father was doing incorrectly. You can imagine how excited my dad was because he was going to have his techniques critiqued by by the world typewriting champion.

My father’s heart was palpitating, his hands were sweating, and his breathing rate accelerated as he sat down at the champion’s typewriter. My father started typing, as fast as he could, eighty words a minute. He had just completed about two-and-a-half lines when the champion told him to stop. My father wanted to know what was wrong. The champion began to itemize all of the incorrect techniques he had observed. My father was dumbfounded because he was doing everything his high school teacher had taught him. Furthermore, he had read every typewriting book at the Library of Congress so he would not waste time doing things incorrectly.

The champion sat at the typewriter and typed for a minute so my father could see the difference between the techniques he was taught and the techniques used by the world typewriting champion. The difference was amazing. My father could readily understand why he had not made any progress in typing despite the fact that he had typed for more than one thousand hours. Practice in and of itself will not make you an excellent typist.; it is perfect practice that makes perfect.

After my dad saw the imperfections in his typing techniques, he began to wonder if it were still possible for him to realize his dream of typing one hundred words per minute. He still had two intricate problems: how many hours a day he should practice and what he should practice. Therefore, he asked the champion exactly what he should do in order to realize his goal of typing one hundred words a minute.

The champion suggested that he continue to practice his typing three hours every day and outlined exactly what he should practice. Meeting the champion provided my father with a great deal of motivation, and he practiced his typing with plenty of zest and enthusiasm. My father immediately noticed an improvement on his speed. I have found that practicing the right thing, the right way, and with the right attitude is sure to produce positive results.

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A great deal has been written about champions in many fields, but little has been written about champion typists. SInce this book is about championship techniques and methods, the characteristics found in the rarest of all champions, the champion typist, will be considered.

It is an electrifying, motivating experience to watch a champion’s fingers flying over the keyboard at more than one hundred and sixty words per minute without making a single error. There is nothing more dramatic to a student than to observe a champion typist in action.

Champion typists are made; they are not born. However, these are some indispensable qualities cultivated in a champion that distinguish that individual from ordinary typists. There is a subtle combination of ability, perception, perseverance, and dedication within the individual that is augmented by the long, sometimes frustrating, and often tedious hours, weeks, and even years of practice needed to reach the final goal.

The champion soon learns that technique is a major concern. What may appear insignificant to an ordinary typist is of paramount importance to a champion. The height of the chair or desk is a tremendous factor, since one inch can make the difference of at least ten net words a minute. A quick, firm striking of the keys is essential for speed. FIngers should never linger on the keys, and fingers should never be curved and hover close to the keyboard. Incorrect stroking will result in a loss of speed.

So many different reaches are involved in typing that one must master each one of them to avoid jerky motions or unnecessary pauses and to develop smoothness and continuity in stroking.

Just as champions learned from laborious practice, you, too, must learn how to work with your machine if you wish to develop superior typing skills. Striking the keys correctly is a technique which must be developed before you can reach a high level of speed and accuracy. There are several critical areas you should emphasize: position of the fingers, wrists, forearms, and elbows; touch; rhythm; and total concentration.

Although you may spend your working day with fingers flying over a keyboard, there are probably some mistakes you continue to make. These problems must be attacked separately by analyzing each area and practicing until the problem is eliminated. There is no substitute for proper practice methods and techniques, so learn the championship way and start on the road to high-speed typing.

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When the typewriter was invented, the manufacturers held typewriting contests to prove that a person could type faster than he could write. Four months after my father had met George Hossfield and learned championship typing techniques, he became the first high school student in America to win the Platinum Pin for excellence in typing. It had eight diamonds and eight emeralds. To win this award, my father typed fifteen minutes from unfamiliar straight copy at the rate of one hundred words per minute without an error. Had my father not been exposed to the world championship typing techniques, I am certain he would have remained an eighty-words-a- minute typist.

During the early years of competition, the word count was based on dictionary words. For high speeds to be set, many small words constituted the straight copy. The speeds were somewhat higher than those set in more recent years. In order to have more uniform scoring, a five-stroke word count was introduced. This provides us with a more accurate assessment of speed rates, and this is what we use today in calculating speeds.
After winning the Platinum Pin, my father had another goal and that was to win the World’s Amateur Typewriting Championship. Therefore, he continued to practice many hours every day and entered the world championship typewriting contest when he was eighteen years old. The contest was held in New York City. All contestants were requested to report a few days before the contest for a trial run, so the officials of the contest could eliminate those who had no chance of winning anything.

My father purposely typed about ten words slower than his top speed. Nevertheless, he finished second in the trial. When the contest began, my father was nervously opening and closing the drawers of his desk; he was the last person to begin.Thirty minutes later, my father had set a world typing record for amateur typists. This was the beginning of an illustrious typing career.

Over fifty years ago, my father could type faster on the non electric typewriter than anyone else in history, and five strokes constituted a word. At the end of sixty minutes of typing from unfamiliar straight copy, he had typed, with ninety nine percent accuracy, one thousand strokes more than anyone else had ever typed.

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In my opinion, the most important aspect of keyboarding with a high degree of speed and accuracy is perfecting your keyboarding techniques. You have noticed that I have emphasized world championship keyboarding techniques over and over again. Without perfecting your techniques, you will not be able to progress at a satisfactory pace. Therefore, heed my advice.I could not have achieved the speed and accuracy skills I possess without heeding the advice my father gave me when I started learning how to type. I am certain the same will be true in your case also.

One merely has to reflect on what happened to my father when he was sixteen years old He spent an entire year practicing more than one thousand hours without gaining a single word. You can imagine how depressing that was for him, and yet he still became the fastest typist of all time on a non-electric typewriter after he was introduced to the world championship techniques.

High speed in typing is directly related to good typing techniques, so I advise you to constantly review the world championship techniques indicated in this program. I had the advantage of seeing world championship typing techniques practically my entire life, and I knew that if these were good enough for my father to win world championships in typing, they certainly were good enough for me.

Of these championship techniques, one of the most important is keying and a smooth pace. This is one of the strategies emphasized by my father to me. I was indeed fortunate to have a world champion as a father and teacher of typing because I did not waste time doing things incorrectly.
My father always wanted to write a typing book, but he was too busy. You can imagine what his life was like. He probably demonstrated his typing prowess before more people than anyone ever. I don’t know how many people saw his demonstrations on television or in the movies or heard his blazing speed on the radio. My dad was on most of the big television shows, and he motivated tens of millions of individuals.

My father always told me that a lifetime is too short, and you never have enough time to do everything you may wish to do. He was correct, so he taught me everything it had taken him a lifetime to learn. This program could not have been written without the knowledge and expertise I received from him.

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Developing skill in typing builds character because typing uses a mixture of pliability, perseverance, discipline, and honesty to achieve this important motor skill. You must develop all these characteristics if you wish to master and excel in typing. It also takes a great deal of human intelligence and human will to apply the basic mechanics. Typing is not an easy skill, and to achieve success, you must set a realistic goals. You may, after an honest self analysis, be compelled to admit that your goals need to be redefined.

You must educate yourself both in class and out of class. Typing skill is not free. It is not something you receive or have presented to you as a gift. The only way in which you can obtain it is to want it enough to pay for it with your own efforts. You must learn this skill, just as you must learn everything else that is really valuable to you.

You, more than anyone else, determine how fast you will acquire typing proficiency. No matter how much and how well you are taught, no matter what opportunities you have for learning, you will gain almost nothing unless you take an active interest in remedying your deficiencies. These timed writings will reveal your strong points and weak points and will emphasize what you need to practice to gain proficiency.

A real desire to learn serves as a “self start.” It will give you a driving purpose toward a definite goal. It will keep your mind wide awake and make practice interesting, and even exciting. Without waiting to be taught, you should make every effort to attain mastery of this important skill. If, in addition to wanting to learn, you have gained skill in managing yourself and your time and in disciplining your mind, you will make very rapid progress.

Unfortunately, some students lack skill in typing because they have not trained themselves to study efficiently. You cannot plod rather blindly through crucial typing assignments day after day and hope to make spectacular progress. If you muddle along wasting your time and energy, you will become discouraged. It is imperative that you study the proper skill-development strategies.

Frustrations are a part of becoming an expert typist. To attain typing proficiency, your fingers must respond automatically to the impulse of your brain. If you dedicate yourself to a high standard of perfection in your practicing, you will soon be transformed into a superior typist.

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A positive attitude is one of the greatest assets. Guard it carefully. Progress and success, whether in the classroom, on the job, or at home, are affected to a great extent by it. Your personality also reveals your readiness to assume the responsibilities involved in a job or social contacts.

Examine your inner self critically to ensure that no negative tendencies intrude. If you have a martyr complex and foster feelings of inferiority or if you make excuses for poor work or for too little done, you are rationalizing deficiencies. Other negative traits that drain you of vitality, rob you of efficiency, and dull your brain power are depression, tension, irritation, and intolerance. Your attitude toward your fellow classmates or workers, toward supervision, and toward responsibility is as important as your attitude about yourself.

Psychologists tell us that attitude is an enduring structure of beliefs that causes us to behave selectively toward physical objects, events, and behavior. Thus we conclude that a positive mental concept of our ability and worth is extremely important in striving toward a goal. Conversely, it is impossible to progress satisfactorily in work or live a meaningful life if one is filled with negative perceptions.

Perception of yourself is a powerful force that influences and guides you. If you perceive yourself as becoming a successful typist, you will see yourself as responsible for your progress, and you will pinpoint what you do, or fail to do, that causes your success or failure. You will reinforce your attainments and correct your errors. You know that you guide your destiny in typing; and since you perceive you are competent, you will invest your time , energy, and talents in full measure today so you may reap the benefits of a superior typing skill tomorrow.

Typing is one of the most important ways of conveying information. You, the typist, will be judged by the quality of the product produced, and your attitude will be displayed by your work.

Two of the most important aspects of a positive attitude are interest and desire. If you are interested, you will absorb more information from your surroundings, and you will become aware of opportunities that further your goal. Desire will make you more creative. These attitudes make you search for new opportunities and new approaches to implement ideas. A person with a positive attitude reflects a sense of accomplishment.

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The proper mental attitude is essential if one wishes to learn to type. In fact, without the proper attitude, learning this skill will be difficult and will result in an unnecessarily frustrating experience.

When observing a champion type rapidly and apparently effortlessly, one might well conclude that typing is a comparatively easy skill to acquire. Appearances are tremendously deceptive in this respect. Perhaps you can remember quite vividly the difficulty you had initially in learning the computer keyboard. One needs only study the conditions under which the old masters perfected typing techniques to realize that it is impossible to achieve success in typing without using the proper techniques and without dedicated hard work. Histories of successful people--typists and others--illustrate all too clearly the lessons of patience and the efforts of years of practice and discipline.

However, typing does not have to be too difficult if you will learn the right way to practice. In fact, the championship way you are now studying is indeed the best way and the the simplest way to learn to type. You must realize that typing is a skill with many facets, and in order to acquire this skill, you must use various and sundry practice procedures. The proper techniques were developed by the old masters of typing over a period of many years. These old masters made a very comprehensive study of the various typing motions and developed the most expeditious way of making every stroke and motion in typing. You are learning their methods, and if you will follow instructions precisely, do exactly what you are told, and type these drills faithfully and conscientiously, your success as an expert typist is assured.

Another very crucial ingredient is absolute self confidence. You must assume that you are going to succeed in order to learn to type. One of the surest ways to succeed in typing lies in thoroughness. This means that you must decide that you are going to master typing, that you will practice exactly as you are instructed, and that you will practice diligently no matter how difficult it seems or how much time is required. In typing, a regard for the small things is necessary. If you can overcome small worries, you will soon override the greater obstacles you encounter.

It is true that some people become successful typists in less time than others, but in every instance, putting in much hard work and developing the correct typing techniques guarantee success.

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Perseverance--the ability to persist despite obstacles, discouragement, frustration, and opposition--is a quality everyone who has learned to type well possesses. Do not become discouraged when you face days when you cannot your fingers to react  as you want them to do. Typing is a skill that presents countless opportunities for errors. A word may be omitted, letters unchanged, spaces skipped or capitals missed. Somehow, though, if you will remember to economize your arm and body motions, use the tip of each finger to strike the keys, and keep your hands relaxed and your wrists steady and low, you will soon be on your way up the ladder to high-speed typing.

Words are used to portray ideas and provide the reader with mental pictures. You will certainly have a feeling of accomplishment when you achieve the ability to think of words and your fingers react automatically and precisely by typing them perfectly and quickly. Just imagine for a moment that you are thinking ideas, and these ideas and thoughts are being immediately transmitted onto your paper as your fingers fly through the air, landing squarely and quickly on the correct keys. This marvelous experience and exhilarating feeling are well worth the many hours spent in acquiring this skill.

To become an accurate, speedy typist is not as difficult as you might imagine. Yet you must persist in applying the proper keyboarding techniques if you do not want to be trapped by poor posture, improper hand position, and incorrect fingering. Much of the strain of typing comes from improper finger motion and hesitating in locating the proper keys. Of equal importance is being able to identify the particular problem you have in speed or accuracy development. The best way to discover these typing areas of weakness is by using the sophisticated diagnostic charts that are a part of championship typing. If you practice the weaknesses revealed, you will make rapid progress because you are concentrating your efforts on only those areas in which you are experiencing difficulty.

Another way to regain your typing composure on a topsy-turvy day is to turn to the one-minute paragraphs and practice the first paragraph until you can type it perfectly in one minute. Then type another paragraph until you have perfected it in one minute, then another and another, until you have acquired mastery of the keyboard again. You will be amazed at how this method will enhance your typing ability.

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One of the worst problems we have in mastering the keyboard is acquiring the mental discipline of keeping our minds totally on what we are doing. It is very easy to find our minds wandering. Of course, when that happens, you will make a tremendous number of “misstrokes”. At all times you complete mental focus must be on what you are doing.

Every now and then you will encounter a student who has a tremendous concentration problem. Marian was just that type of student. She knew exactly what was going on in front of her and on both sides of her., as well as everything I was doing. Because she was always unfocused, she made a high number of misprocesses. I talked with her repeatedly about her problem, but she could not break herself from being curious about everything going on in the room.

Finally, I placed Marian in the first row, right corner of the classroom, so there would not be anything to catch her eye and attention. I also made her key on a letter-for-letter basis. It was not long before Marian was keying for five minutes without a “misstroke”. Fortunately, most people do not have Marian’s problem, but if you do, talk the matter over with your teacher. He or she will help you with a keyboarding problem.

Another problem that most students have is looking at their fingers while they key. This is one of the worst things a student can do. I have seen many students endeavor to type that way, and all of them have been unsuccessful in developing a good keyboarding skill.

If you expect to become proficient in typing, then it is essential that you learn to type using the touch system. If you are not confident of where certain keys are located, I urge you to review the keyboard. In some situations, you might have to place a plain sheet of paper on the top of the keyboard. You would then place your fingers under the paper and on the guide keys. You would then key for one week with the keys covered. Usually, after one week of keying in this fashion--and after doing the necessary corrective practice drills--you will no longer have that problem. If you have a security problem in locating some of the keys, ask your teacher to cover your keyboard, assign you to the alphabetic sentences to key, chart your misprocess, and assign you to the appropriate drills to eliminate that problem. It will take only one week to correct that problem if you practice conscientiously.

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Individuals are those thinkers and planners, pioneers, and leaders who dare to branch out into new experiences or perform experiments that reshape, alter, or change our lives. Included in this group are those who developed and expanded expertise in the field of office skills, as well as inventors, scientists, and those in other fields.

My father was both a pioneer and a leader in every sense. In addition to his fame as a champion typist, he was well known for his ability to motivate others. Wherever he went, people who observed his demonstrations became so enamored that they followed him to Washington D.C. Consequently, he was similar to the pied piper, except his music was played on the typewriter.

After watching a demonstration in Atlantic City, a young man named Frank came to Washington with the idea of becoming the next world champion typist, In fact, before seeing my father type, he thought he was already the fastest typist in the world. Like so many others, he had been living in a world of fantasy. For the first time he realized that he needed championship coaching to advance step by step from basic typing skills to an entirely new realm--championship typing.

Frank was typing about eighty words per minute on ten-minute timed writings. However, he had two serious flaws in his typing technique that prevented him from realizing his goal. First, he held his right hand too high. To a person unknowledgeable about keyboarding techniques, this would not make any difference, but to a typing expert it was a terrible mistake. Second, he could not keep his elbows down. After typing two or three minutes, he permitted both elbows to rise until his forearms were parallel to the floor. This caused him to make extra errors and lose speed. Although Frank was mentally determined to excel in typing, his failure to perfect his typing techniques kept him from becoming a champion typist.

Undoubtedly, you have unused resources that have never been recognized and talents that have never been used. But if you wish to make the best possible progress in typing, you must strive to use the proper techniques--often called championship techniques. What may appear to be insignificant flaw in your technique can make the difference in how fast and how accurately you type. The decision is yours, but you must eliminate or overcome all obstacles that keep you from achieving the results you desire. It will not be easy, but it will certainly be worth the effort.

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Time and time again people came to our school for help after they had tried to gain expertise in typing and failed. This was true of Helen. For ten years after she graduated from high school, she went from school to school trying to learn to type well enough to get a position as a typist. Each time she was assured she would be successful and that it would be just a matter of time before she could type fast and accurately enough to apply for a job. These promises all proved false, and in desperation she came to our school and asked if she were hopeless.

This was not an unusual question after a history of ten years of trying and failing. However, before making any final judgement or drawing conclusions, we asked Helen to type for one minute in order so that an analysis of her typing could be made. This was the real issue.

After she had typed only two lines, her problems were obvious. Actually, it was comparatively easy to analyse Helen’s problems and prescribe the exact course that transformed her from a frustrated failure to a contented, hard working student. She was given certain prescribed assignments that required diligent practice. Helen far exceeded the required practicing and willingly spent at least two to three hours each day practicing at home in addition to the time spent in her class. There was a steady improvement, day by day, as she typed in class. Her whole attitude had changed from one of a defeatist to one of an optimist. Although there was an obvious struggle, she was on her way to becoming the successful typist of whom she had dreamed.

About six weeks after she started, Helen was ready. She had mastered the assignments and had acquired the deftness needed to pass the examination. She arranged to take the test immediately, and the next day her smiling face verified that she had passed. No day in her life will be more momentous and seem of greater importance. Her persistence had paid off, and she had achieved the success she had sought for so many years.

Helen’s success depended upon, as yours will, practicing in a certain prescribed manner. There just isn’t any substitute for continual practicing in the correct manner. Practicing incorrectly only compounds your problems. So attack each problem separately and repeat each problem area repeatedly until you eliminate the source of your difficulty. By consistently practicing in this manner, you will soon find your fingers flying over the keyboard quickly and accurately.