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Gregg College Keyboarding & Document Processing, 10/e

Scot Ober, Ball State University
Jack E. Johnson, State University of West Georgia
Arlene Zimmerly, Los Angeles City College

ISBN: 0072963387
Copyright year: 2006

About the Authors



Scot Ober

Scot Ober has taught business education for more than 20 years, most recently as a professor of business at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Ohio State University in 1974. In addition to his high school and university teaching experience, he has served as director of research for the Gregg Division of McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York City and served as a military secretary in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. He received the 1993 Distinguished Alumnus award from East Carolina University.

Scot is a past national president of Delta Pi Epsilon and a past national chair of the Policies Commission for Business and Economic Education. He also served a three-year term as editor of the Business Communication Quarterly and was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Business Communication in 1997. He has chaired or served as a member of more than 100 ACICS accreditation teams and won the organization's Distinguished Public Evaluator Award in 2002.

Scot has published more than 60 journal articles in every major business communication and business education journal and is the author or coauthor of nine textbooks in the areas of business communication, keyboarding, shorthand, and software applications. In addition, he has spoken or presented papers at hundreds of conferences and training sessions in 43 states as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, England, and Greece. Several of his presentations have won the "Best-Paper Award" at professional conferences.

Scot and his wife and five sons live in a suburb of Indianapolis.

Jack E. Johnson

Jack E. Johnson is Dean Emeritus and Distance Learning Professor in the Department of Management and MIS at the University of West Georgia where he teaches primarily graduate courses in methodology, research, keyboarding, and communications. In 1999 he was selected as Collegiate Teacher of the Year by the National Business Education Association, and he has also received this award from the Southern Business Education Association and the Georgia Business Education Association. He also holds a Distinguished Professorship from Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas.

He has authored textbooks for McGraw-Hill since 1977 and has traveled to over 40 states and Canada speaking at various national, regional, and state associations. He has also authored over 35 articles in professional journals.

Johnson was born and raised in North Dakota. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and has taught in the states of Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Texas, and Georgia and has been a visiting professor at several universities. He currently resides in Douglasville, Georgia, with his wife, Diane, but spends as much time as possible at their log home in Wisconsin.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Johnson was assigned as a Captain in the United State Air Force; served as advisor to several student business organizations; worked as Webmaster for the Southern Business Education Association and the Carrollton, Georgia, Rotary club; and earned his 1st degree black belt in American Free Style Karate.

Arlene Zimmerly

Arlene Zimmerly is a professor at Los Angeles City College, where she teaches a broad list of computer applications and office technologies courses. She has been a co-author of College Keyboarding and Document Processing since the 8th Edition.

In addition to teaching keyboarding online, Web page design, and word processing, your author has pioneered the curricula for many of the most innovative courses taught in her department and at LACC including several online courses. She serves as the Web administrator and computer lab coordinator for her department and maintains a host of departmental Web sites. As vice chairperson of the Computer Applications and Office Technologies Department, which has been recognized as a model program for innovative curriculum, she staffed 33 courses and supervised five computer labs.

Her past teaching experience included positions at other community colleges, California State University at Los Angeles, Sawyer College of Business, Moon Valley High School, and Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute. She earned her M.A in Business Education at California State University, Los Angeles, where she was selected Outstanding Graduate Student in Business/Office Education. Ms. Zimmerly is a noted speaker on the topics of distance education, keyboarding, and office systems and technology.


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