Targets for Fall Semester: Writing IVc

This post reiterates writing targets announced during initial class meetings, for typing speed trials, book reviews, and blog posts for fall semester. It amplifies weekly blogging targets suggested in the recap. of Blogging targets: Aim high! (September 26, 2007).

The table below indicates how Writing IV (Fall) raises the targets from Writing III (Spring). For those of you who weren't here spring semester, the challenge is all the greater:

Semester	Typing Speeds	Book Reviews	Blog Posts	Essays
Spring (Writing III)	100 words (20 wpm)	12+	60+	6
Fall (Writing IV)	150 words (30 wpm)	18+	90+	6
Fall/Spring	150%	150%	150%	150% longer

You can check the academic calendar, and do the math yourselves, to get your own weekly targets for fall semester. However, you should realize that, in order to increase your typing speed, you will need a large number of hours of practice (including typing practice, typing speed trials, actual blogging, and essay preparation times). These are just ballpark estimates, yet to increase your typing speed in five-minute trials by:

• 10 words may require 10 hours of typing practice;
• 100 words may require 100 hours of typing practice.

Most of you are somewhere in the middle of those two estimates, but should continue to practice to push up your typing speeds, until typing no longer slows your self-expression in online environments.

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