“Gregg Notes” -Seeking information about please.

  RE “Gregg Notes”    I’ve been preparing to somewhat informally teach a course in shorthand but find that my method of shorthand has considerably evolved from that which I learned some fifteen years ago. Briefly, I spent ten years (1993-2003)  taking notes for an on-campus lecture notetaking and publishing service. During that time I…

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Gregg Shorthand Newsletter

Hi there, I’ve been working on a Gregg Shorthand Newsletter for awhile now and I think it’s ready for the first publication. A sample of the newsletter in progress is at http://www.shorthandclasses.com/maxnews/articles/Pub01_Sep2007_index.html and will be published via email subscriptions on Sept 15th.  Contact me at this link to ask any questions or submitting your idea, article or…

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Abbreviation – Codified, One’s own, etc.

Last night I picked up GREGG DICTATION: DIAMOND JUBILEE SERIES just for something to read while eating a snack. For one thing, can you believe, based on a couple of business letters, that a hotel room in San Francisco cost $8 in 1963, and that a starting sales rep in NYC was paid $6000 per year?!…

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Gregg-Lessons advertising-flyer design suggestions?

    I’m thinking of putting out a flyer-advertisement to teach Gregg Shorthand locally here in Albuquerque New Mexico USA. So far I’m basically thinking of saying something about increasing your writing speed up to 40 and even 120 words per minute… and something about increasing your lecture-material comprehension and retention to nearly 100%. Any suggestions?  …

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Happily Conflicted?

The serendipity part:  today a friend dropped by and handed me a book she’d found on the giveaway table at the public library, where people put old books they don’t want. It was a copy in very good condition of GREGG SPEED BUILDING:COLLEGE EDITION by JRG himself, shorthand by Zoubek, the 1941 edition, i.e. the…

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Jury Charge from 1913 – Andrew’s site

The  jury charge reproduced on Andrew’s site was used in a contest in 1913 and dictated at 240 wpm. “gentlemen of the jury” is rendered by JENT(blend)-J “the plaintiff” is rendered by OVER TH-P “from the defendant company” is rendered by F-M-OVER TH-D followed by disjoined K “a car of the defendant” is rendered by…

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How to Study Gregg Shorthand??

Hello Everyone,        I need to know a good way to study shorthand. I’m learning from the Diamond Jubilee Series, Second Edition book along with the Shorthand for Colleges workbook also Diamond Jubilee Series, Volume One, Second Edition. I practice the strokes first, read the section at the end of the chapter twice, then…

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Gregg Serves Its Users Well

We had a general information meeting at work today and, just for the exercise, I took notes in Gregg – not verbatim, but I was surprised at how easy it was to accurately transcribe my notes and relay the essence of what was actually said. My point being, that Gregg does the job well. My…

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how long

i am teaching myself gregg from a site that has the complete anneversary manul and i was wondering how long it toke to learn the write so you could use it. Michael P.S. sorry i cant spell (by maestromap for everyone)

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