Gregg shorthand penmanship pointers

Since I took up pre-anniversary Gregg shorthand a couple months ago, I have been using it in my daily life instead of longhand. At the moment, I have not done much dictation, since I have not put much emphasis on speed yet, only correctness of theory, but have tested my ability to take dictation, and…

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Programmed Shorthand Laboratory for Skill Development

Here’s another interesting find:  The Programmed Shorthand Laboratory for Skill Development from Ohio in 1965.  I’ve always been curious about these shorthand laboratories, and now here’s an entire document about them.  This is available on Internet Archive.  I posted a few photos a while back of shorthand laboratories from by-gone days here.

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Clarification on Std. WPM

I’ve been reviewing my “Functional Method” Reading and Writing exercises that have the numeric marks every 20 standard words.  What is a standard word again?  I’ve read 5 letters, or 5 characters including punctuation and spaces, some without spaces, etc.  Does anyone know the exact system that Gregg Publishing used to count words?

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Dictation Disc Company Set 482

I’ve digitized another Dictation Disc Company record set (482).  This one includes 24 dictations that range from 60 to 90 WPM.  Most of them are less than 2 minutes long. The back of the box claims there is a transcript, but there was not one included.  It says it’s a “complete theory review.” For the…

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Shorthand Speed Dictation – Brief Forms

The ability to write brief forms automatically and fast is one of the ingredients in improving your shorthand speed. To that effect, I recreated the following drill that appeared in an old Gregg recording. The sound files below contain all of the brief forms for all Gregg Shorthand series, dictated in alphabetical order at 100…

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Dictation Disc Company Set 43

There are 33 dictations in this set, ranging from 100, 110 and 120 wpm.  This set does not correspond with any particular shorthand system.  There is no copyright or rights-reserved mark anywhere in the set– indeed, there is nothing at all that indicates in what year this was produced, other than the dated photos (i.e….

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Dictation Disc Company Set 480

Many thanks to Howard for sending these records so I could digitize them! There are 30 dictation recordings in this set that range from 40 to 80 wpm.  There is no copyright or rights-reserved mark anywhere in the set– indeed, there is nothing at all that indicates in what year this was produced, other than…

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Comparison of Various Notehand Editions

I compiled this chart showing the identical (or similar) paragraphs/units that are found between the various Notehand texts. Since all three editions are out of print, I mainly did this to help the teacher match up lessons with my dictation recordings, for whichever text a student might happen to have. This chart will also help…

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