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The Daily Challenge

Edward Miller

—D.D. Lessenberry,

20th Century Typewriting, 1937

 

Typing ability cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

This text furnishes procedures and materials of instruction.

Your teacher will challenge you in all your work.

 

Text materials are effective aids, but responsibility for

The development of typing ability must be assumed by you,

The student. This work, which you are now beginning,

 

Should therefore command your best effort.

The success of your effort will depend, to a large extent,

On the attitude you have toward the work. You must

 

You must demonstrate the right attitude by the sincerity

Of your effort and the worth of your production.

This is the daily challenge.

Edward Miller teaches writing at Madera College. Included among his areas of interest are outsider art, street photography, and the American vernacular. His work has lately appeared in Open Ceilings Magazine, New World Writing, and The Chagrin River Review.
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