Gregg reporting shortcuts by Gregg John Robert 1867-1948

Author:Gregg, John Robert, 1867-1948
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Shorthand reporting
Publisher: New York : Gregg Pub. Co.
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

procedure in court. He must know what to take and what to omit, and a multitude of other things in connection with his profession. The books that the young reporter can read with advantage on this subject are:

Factors of Shorthand Speed, by David Wolfe Brown; The Stenographic Expert, by Willard B. Bottome; Practical Court Reporting, by H. W. Thorne; The Gregg Reporter, by John R. Gregg.

Repetition Practice. Much has been said and written about the value of repetition practice in shorthand. With the older systems of shorthand repetition was of much greater value than it is with a simple system like ours. This was due mainly to the fact that there were so many possible ways of writing the same word, and the repetition was necessary to render the best forms habitual. With our system repetition practice should be confined to prepared material, as, for example, the phrases in this book, to matter coming under certain principles in the textbook, to word-signs, and so on, where the object is to gain intensive practice on some particular feature. There is scarcely any danger of doing too much repetition work on the phrase-signs or wordsigns, for the object is to secure absolute automatism.

Repetition can also be applied with great advantage to pieces of connected matter containing a large percentage of wordsigns, phrases, or principles one wants to remember. The disadvantage of repetition practice on miscellaneous matter is that the writer soon memorizes the order of the words and fixes the habit of writing the words in this order. As soon as an exception occurs—that is, when the order of the words is changed—confusion arises. In the study and practice of any list of wordsigns, phrases, or expedients,

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