Text processing and typing

Passages at the professional level have more technical language and usage than at any level before. For instance the style of language in legal documents and government reports is not the type of language used in informal conversation. Complex text processing in typing refers to the ability to sustain speed in typing despite the technical vocabulary, or high structural complexity, of a text. This lesson is aimed at teaching you the high mental shift required to process and type at a high speed ‘high difficulty’ text without a decrease in your typing speed.

Formulating a plan to deal with formal texts

In formal texts in Hindi, there is a tendency to use more compound words in addition to greater frequency of use of certain characters which can increase the overall typing speed. Particularly in the Kruti Dev layout which can also be necessitate a very specific “finger-dance”. If you think of a compound on the whole you may be a bit overwhelmed. For this In order to avoid being overwhelmed try something called ‘Segmented Processing’. For example consider a formal word with 12 letters, you can break this word into three segments of 4 letters each. By reducing the complexity to smaller sets of sequential movements, you avoid the mental “lag” that typically accompanies a typist’s first encounter with a challenging word.

Anticipating Patterns in Language

Linguistic structures are essential in naturally occurring language, even in the most intricate and technical documents. They include recurrent affixes, regardless of their degree of technical advancement. Document processing at a high level requires a specialized cognitive skill—the ability to recognize and act on linguistic structures in a split second. As you encounter an administrative term and start processing it, you should already be completing it without conscious attention to the screen. From a cognitive standpoint, it is not ‘predicting’ what to type, but more of a ‘highly developed’ motor command vocabulary that is activated by recurrent linguistic structures.

Maintaining Technical Text Rhythm

Technical documents often create a stuttering effect: typists speed up on simple terminology and come to a complete stop when they encounter a more intricate term. In lesson 52, the objective is to eliminate bumps. For complex technical documents, it is recommended to take a break to reduce the chance of an error. The time lost by slowed down typing is well compensated with time saved by not needing to correct an error. Knocking down high cluster of technical documents is a feature of an advanced typist who knows the Remington keyboard by heart.