This Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) curriculum guide is designed to provide job relevant tasks, performance objectives, performance guides, resources, learning activities, evaluation standards, and achievement testing in word processing. It may be used with any teaching method chosen by the instructor. The guide covers six duties of the occupation: organizing and planning, supervising and implementing, performing clerical activities, performing mail-handling activities, performing transcription activities, and performing keyboarding (typewriting) activities. Each duty is divided into from 1 to 10 performance objectives. Noted under each performance objective are the task, conditions, standard, source for standard, performance guide, enabling objective(s), resources, suggested teaching activities, a criterion-referenced measure, and a checklist for performance objective evaluation. Student worksheets, answer keys, and samples are included as needed. Appendixes include definitions of terms, a bibliography, a cross-reference table of duties and tasks, and equipment lists. (YLB)