Mining terms in Gregg Simplified
“Mining Terms in Gregg Simplified”, compiled for Today’s Secretary by Robert H. Ramsey. From the October 1954 issue of Today’s Secretary. Attachment: miningterms.pdf (by Philip for group greggshorthand)
Transcribing Speed Practice, September 1954
Transcribing Speed Practice from the September 1954 issue of Today’s Secretary. 504 words. The material below is the same as the C.T. [Competent Typist] Test across the page, and it is provided so that you can test and compare your speeds of typing from print and from shorthand. Compute your rate on this word-counted material…
Religious Terms in Gregg Simplified
“Religious Terms in Gregg Simplified”, compiled for Today’s Secretary by Eleanor M. Perz. From the November 1954 issue of Today’s Secretary. Attachment: religious-terms.pdf (by Philip for group greggshorthand)
Flash Reading: The Vain Muskrat
“The Vain Muskrat”, by Elsie Leffingwell, from the November 1954 issue of Today’s Secretary. 371 words. Flash Reading: for practising reading quickly. Graded: this text is based on chapters One through Six of the Manual. “How fast can you read shorthand? You can probably speed through this page, which is based on chapters One through…
Progressive Speed-Building Tests
This booklet is a collection of letters and essays that have appeared in different Gregg books and in The Gregg Writer, that were compiled and marked by Clyde Blanchard to be used for dictation. Each test follows the “pyramid” method of speed building, and the first letter starts at 20 wpm. Although the selections are…
More Important than Dictation
This essay from the book “New Shorthand Dictation Exercises” by Edward H. Eldridge gives excellent advice regarding the appropriate time to take new matter dictation (the author calls it “general dictation”), how to study shorthand, and how to perform “autodictation” when a dictator is not available. The book instructs the students to follow the advice…
More Dictation Qs
We have discussed this before over several threads but i would like some clarification. In one of my posts asking about dictation, the advice was to use audio dictation from the beginning – to record and replay at a slow pace and writing with the book open. In another thread here, http://greggshorthand.multiply.com/journal/item/687/Self-dictation Carlos, you gave some great…
Review of Gregg Shorthand Principles (Anniversary)
This 21-page booklet was published in 1942 by the Federal Government as a training tool and handy reference. Attachment: review-of-gregg-shorthand-principles-1942.pdf
Observations on Convention Reporting and Its Problems
This article by Charles L. Swem appeared on the November 1935 of The Gregg Writer, and contains a list of reporting shortcuts of common phrases heard in convention speeches. The shortcuts were written by Charles Zoubek and serialized from the November 1935 to the January 1936 issues. Attachment: observations-on-convention-reporting-and-its-problems.pdf
Vocabulary of the Anniversary Manual
Dear shorthanders, Attached here is “The Vocabulary of the Gregg Shorthand Manual: Anniversary Edition.” This is actually a surprisingly useful little resource. It refers to every word used in the manual by unit and page number, so that a shorthand writer doesn’t just memorize each word he looks up in a dictionary, but learns the…