Write contracted braille skillfully! Build on your ability to read contracted braille by learning all the rules and exceptions for contractions, short-form words, numbers, punctuation and the letter sign. After a few months of study, your braille writing skills should improve tremendously.
Prerequisite: Ability to read contracted braille and access to braille writing equipment that can accommodate a 38-cell line.
Course: EBR-101, Media: B with C instructions, Lessons: 12
Braille Writing
Course ID:EBR-101
Audience
Adult Continuing Education Program and High School Program
Course Description
A comprehensive course for students who read grade 2 braille and wish to master correct braille writing skills. You are required to submit brailled reports.
Course Details
Each lesson introduces you to the various classes of braille contractions and the rules regarding their use. At the end of each lesson, you transcribe an examination, consisting of between 15 and 25 sentences written in grade 1 braille, into grade 2 braille, thus demonstrating knowledge of the material presented in each lesson.
Media
Braille and cassette
Organization
12 lessons
Credit
1/2 Carnegie Unit
Prerequisite
Competency in reading grade 2 braille
Grading
Letter grade A-F
Average Completion Time
Four to six months
Course Materials
One textbook (one braille volume) consisting of the 12 lessons in the course; one cassette consisting of the exact duplicates of the examinations in the braille textbook; one supplemental braille volume, consisting of a word list which contains troublesome and problematic words with regard to the proper usage of braille contractions
Objectives And Content
This course is designed to thoroughly familiarize you with the braille system, braille contractions and their usage, and the rules of braille transcribing. The objective of this course is to teach you to write braille correctly for your personal use and enjoyment.
Lesson 1 reviews the braille alphabet and gives you information about types of braille-writing equipment (i.e., slate and stylus, braillewriter) available.
Lesson 2 introduces the capital sign and the double capital sign; paragraphing; the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, colon, semicolon, the apostrophe, quotation marks, parentheses; the hyphen, dash, double dash; numbers; and the rules governing the use of these signs, symbols, and concepts.
Lesson 3 looks at the single-letter contractions and the contractions representing and, for, of, the, and with and the rules regarding them.
Lesson 4 presents the part-word contractions for ch, st, th, wh, ou, and st; the whole-word contractions for child, shall, this, which, out, still; the ordinal numerals; and the rules regulating their usage.
Lesson 5 acquaints you with the part-word contractions and the rules for ar, ed, er, gh, ow, ble, and ing.
Lesson 6 introduces the whole-word lower-sign contractions for his, was, were, be, in, enough; the part-word lower-sign contractions for in, en, be, con, dis, com; and their rules.
Lesson 7 is concerned with the whole-word lower-sign contractions for to, into, by; part-word lower-sign contractions for bb, cc, dd, ff, gg, and ea; and their rules.
Lesson 8 discusses the initial-letter contractions and their usage.
Lesson 9 looks at final-letter contractions, their usage, and contractions in proper names.
Lesson 10 presents short-form words and their usage.
Lesson 11 examines abbreviations, format for letters, the letter sign, Roman numerals, and miscellaneous uses for numbers.
Lesson 12 presents the italic sign, the ellipsis, the accent mark, the asterisk, and their uses.
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