The easy shorthand or Benedict system of phonography; by Benedict George 1855-

Author:Benedict, George, 1855- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Shorthand
Publisher: North Abington, Mass., R.C. Benedict, printer
Published: 1901-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

23. How to Develop Speed, (a) Do not try for speed until able to write correctly, and to make good forms. It is with, shorthand as with penmanship or any art, the one who begins slowly and carefully will excel the one who is in too great a hurry.

(b) When a paragraph has been corrected and written five times without a.mistake, the student may begin to write it more rapidly, practising it over and over, until able to write at the race of from 50 to 150 words per minute, according to his stage of advancement.

(c) After proceeding in this way wirh the matter contained in this book, the pupil may take, from dictation, other material of a general nature or in some special line of work for which he is fitting. This should be carefully corrected by the pupil himself and read without seeing the English. It may then be practised until iixed.

(d) Of far more importance than rapid writing is ready reading. Employers usually compose and dictate with comparative slowness, but they expect their dictation to be read back to them without a halt. Owing to its vowel basis, its regularity, and its syllabic expression this is a very easy system to read, and its prac-tioners have secured situations over as high as twenty-five competitors on account of their excellent reading. Nevertheless the natural tendendy is to neglect this all important side of practice. The student is therefore urged to remember first, that without ready reading, shorthand is of no use, and second, that owing to the increased mental effort of reading it is also a quicker developer of speed than writing.

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