Our Story
Accurate Publishing Company was established on August 1, 1990, and incorporated in May of 2003. The company’s goal is to publish quality textbooks for educational purposes. Textbooks are published based on the demands and needs of schools, office settings, and various companies. Prior to starting the company, the owner received many excellent suggestions from representatives of reputable publishing companies about manuscripts and how they should be published. After completing all state and federal guidelines for establishing a publishing company, the first official manuscript, consisting of word processing applications was published. All published books are field-tested, reviewed by experts in the respective field, edited, and produced according to publishing guidelines.
When word processing programs were adopted for classroom use in the early 1980’s, the programs and user-manuals were not so user-friendly. Many students, and especially adult learners, felt frustrated and humiliated when they could not remember the function keys to perform a task. The owner of the company was a business education teacher. She was familiar with new technology and inderstood the frustration that many new users were experiencing. She also recognized that typewriting classes were being replaced by electronic word processing programs. For example, in order to produce a typewritten copy, with a centered title, a specific command, or maybe two, was required. Memory and repetition were necessary in order to operate the new programs with a measure of success. The owner recognized that a combination of typewriting skills could be utilized with the new technology to produce an error-free document. This idea was put into practice, when the owner developed a few typewriting lessons and incorporated word processing commands that were necessary to input (key) and output (print) a document with little or no errors. A few pages of lessons with step-by-step directions eventually led to developing a small manual for use in the word processing classes at the university where the owner was teaching. As interest and enrollment in the adult education classes increased, in addition to the credited classes, new teachers were hired to assist. The small manual that was developed for this purpose made it easy for teachers to teach the classes, and it made it easy for the students to learn.
When it involves learning new computer applications, it was and is still the focus of the owner to provide instructions in textbooks that are easy to learn. This same focus was a motivator for her when she wrote and produce textbooks to accommodate the software programs that the schools adopted. She tried to ensure that each textbook was written with simple, step-by-step directions. She conducted a number of workshops to introduce her new books. Most of these books are listed in the company’s archive’s section.
When schools began to adopt the author/owner’s books, she felt it was necessary to establish a reputable company, as well as to operate in an office setting that was equipped with machinery (computers, fax machines, copy machines, etc.) for writing, communicating, and networking with others. This idea became a reality on August 1, 1990. Shortly after August 1, the owner secured an office site in the Beverly Community in Chicago, IL. After five years of operating the company at this site, the company relocated to South Holland, IL.
Throughout the years, when the Corel Corporation released a new word processing program or a new productivity suite, the author endeavored to provide a new edition to accompany the new version. Accurate Publishing Company is happy to report that the textbooks were adopted by high schools, colleges, and universities locally, state wide, nationally, and internationally.
In the beginning stages, the owner/author wrote textbooks specifically for the Corel Word Processing programs. Later, she ventured out to include manuals for other software programs. As the needs became apparent, she felt motivated to write study review guides and other educational materials that would benefit both pre-service and in-service educators. However, as states changed teacher certification requirements, these materials are not being used for this purpose. Yet, they can be used as tutoring guides for anyone who wishes to brush up on his/her Reading, Writing, Language Arts, and Mathematics skills.
While maintaining its original objective for publishing educational materials, the company embraced two additional authors. Dr. Patrice Boyles’ text was published in 2009–“Learning Microsoft Office Word 2007." The company also welcomed a new author, the late Gwendolyn Crayton, who co-authored the text, Basic Skills Study Review Guide, which was released in 2010. The manual became outdated due to new state teacher guidelines and is no longer published or printed.
Accurate Publishing Company, Inc. is pleased to be a legal, licensed, and a registered publishing company that produces mainly Educational Textbooks. It has marketed its books through workshops, the Web site, references, and as a third party vendor. If there is a ready market for an educational textbook, the company will be happy to supervise the publishing of the text. The company will be happy to supervise publishing any reputable, educational materials that maintain a ready or existing market for new writers/authors. The manuscripts must be free of grammar flaws, field-tested, reviewed by reputable authorities in the same field of concentration, formatted, and illustrated for camera-ready production.
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