Profreading/Business Communications prepares you for the tasks that lay ahead in your office career. You will learn how to type letters, reports, and various office documents that will be not only accurate and professional but will convay your abilities to use the computer as a tool to further your career.

1. Proofread various and realistic business documents. Which includes identify misstrokes, repetitions, omissions, transpositions, and spacing errors.
2. Demonstrate basic spelling rules to spell words correctly.
3. Identify errors in using homonyms and false homonyms.
4. Apply basic capitalization rules.
5. Apply rules for forming plurals and possessives.
6. Apply rules for using commas.
7. Locate errors in the use of periods, colons, exclamation points, dashes, parentheses, hyphens, semicolons, question marks, quotation marks, and underscores.
8. Recognize errors in subject-verb agreement.
9. Recognize errors in pronoun-antecedent agreement.
10. Recognize errors in the use of nominative-case and objective-case Pronouns.
11. Recognize complete sentences.
12. Apply the basic rules of number style.
13. Detecte errors in special number formats such as percentages, calculations, and measurements.
14. Edit realistic and various business documents.
15. Use a consistent set of revision symbols.
16. Ensure consistency. Using proper English.
17. Include all the necessary details.
18. Demonstrate the use of reference materials such as dictionaries, thesauruses, and reference manuals.
19. Apply appropriate formats for business documents.
20. Compose documents.
21. And Finally, use spell checker and grammar checker correctly.

You should complete Orientation of On-line Classes a 6 hour class offered at no charge at RODP. You should also be competent in Microsoft Word.

Module Introduction:

Module 1: (2 hours)
Module 2: (4 hours)
Module 3: (4 hours)
Module 4: (4 hours)
Module 5: (4 hours)
Module 6: (4 hours)
Module 7: (4 hours)
Module 8: (4 hours)
Module 9: (4 hours)
Module 10: (4 hours)
Module 11: (4 hours)
Module 12: (4 hours)
Module 13: (4 hours)
Module 14: (4 hours)
Module 15: (4 hours)
Module 16: (4 hours)
Module 17: (4 hours)
Module 18: (4 hours)
Module 19: (4 hours)
Module 20: (4 hours)
Module 21: (4 hours)
Module 22: (4 hours)

Students will need to be a self-starter and self-motivated with the ability to meet deadlines set on your calendar timeline.

Dictionary and Thesaurus

*Additionally you can use http://www.webster.com/ webster's online dictionary and www.google.com for research purposes.

The minimum requirements can be found at http://www.rodp.org/students/hardware_software.htm.

The minimum requirements can be found at http://www.rodp.org/students/hardware_software.htm. Specific hardware requirements for this course include Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, Shockwave 8.0 or higher, Microsoft Office 2003. Install using the custom installation and select to install all components to be run from you hard drive to complete this course.

Please select the Instructor option on the Navigation Bar at the left to find instructor contact information. Virtual office hours and other communication information will be available on this web page.

Each Module will give specific directions on how to complete the tests and quizzes. It will provide instruction on how you will receive your grade.

Your grade will be based on Skills (50%), Related Work (25%), and Participation (25%).

The Skills score is the score you receive on your exam

The Related Work is derived from the assign work you will be submitting.

The Participation grade will be based on your involvement in the discussion board, email communications, and completing assignment on time.

Students are required to participate actively in discussions. During the course, the instructor will post questions on the discussion board concerning a specific topic. Students will have the opportunity to respond to these topics and to other students' responses. The discussion board is here for you. It is to assist you in learning this content successfully. Please feel free to begin your own discussion on Outlook.

93-100---A
85-92---B
77-84---C
A score of 77 or better must be achieved to receive credit for this course.

A sequenced list of assignments and projects arranged by course section or module with due dates if applicable.

Students are expected to communicate with the instructor as a learning resource, students must check the course bulletin board frequently for announcements, and students must actively participate in threaded discussion events. The instructor will post topics for student comments.

Students are permitted to work ahead of the timeline in this course. There are specific unit completion dates posted on the calendar and noted in units modules. Assignments are required to be turned in by these dates.

The following are recommendations for students taking this class:

• Learn how to navigate in Web CT if you are not familiar with the system.
• View the Course Calendar for exams and assignment deadlines.
• Check the Discussion Board several times a week for course announcements, course information and discussion topics.
• Manage your time wisely. Give yourself enough time complete assignments and properly prepare for exams.
• Keep in contact with the instructor on a regular basis by emails and discussion board.
• Use the assigned e-mail address as opposed to a personal e-mail address for everything related to the course.
• Address technical problems immediately.
• Students must respect the rights of others at all times when communicating in chat, email, or discussions. Observe course netiquette at all times.
• Participation in this course is the key to doing well. Be sure all assignments are completed by the due date as posted on the Course Calendar.
• If you have a technical issue address it at once to avoid falling behind in the class.
• If you have questions, the discussion board is a greater place to ask it. Remember that the only bad question is the one not asked. So, if you are unsure of something , ask. If you prefer, you may also email the instructor.
  

• Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor
• Citation Styles Online http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite6.html

Library

The Tennessee Virtual Library is available to all students enrolled in the Regents Degree Program. Links to library materials (such as electronic journals, databases, interlibrary loans, digital reserves, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and librarian support) and Internet resources needed by learners to complete online assignments and as background reading must be included in all courses. 

Students With Disabilities

Qualified students with disabilities will be provided reasonable and necessary academic accommodations if determined eligible by the appropriate disability services staff at their home institution. Prior to granting disability accommodations in this course, the instructor must receive written verification of a student's eligibility for specific accommodations from the disability services staff at the home institution. It is the student's responsibility to initiate contact with their home institution's disability services staff and to follow the established procedures for having the accommodation notice sent to the instructor.

Syllabus Changes

The instructor reserves the left to make changes as necessary to this syllabus. If changes are necessitated during the term of the course, the instructor will immediately notify students of such changes both by individual email communication and posting both notification and nature of change(s) on the course bulletin board.

Technical Support

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