Reading Practice

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Reading shorthand notes is important in learning shorthand and writing shorthand. Especially if you want to write shorthand fast and accurate. If you don't know how to write an outline, you can guess, but when it comes to reading your own notes, you may not remember what you wrote (trust me, it's happened to me). Also, if you have to stop to think of how an outline is written, you still stop and your writing speed will decrease.

Take your time reading. There's no rush. Think of when a child learns to read, they learn one word at a time and read very slowly. You are learning a new "language".

From the Gregg Writer
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When you are learning, you can skip outlines you can't read, especially if you don't have a transcript near by. Finish the lesson, letter, reading practice. When you have finished, then start over reading it again. You will find outlines you can read a second time.


More tips from Gregg Speed Studies
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con't from above.

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Enlarge your volcabulary by reading. If you are reading older versions, you will also enlarge your volcabulary of historical words as well as events.

If you come across a word that


from the Gregg Speed Studies

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FUNCTIONAL METHOD: I think it says this in the front, or I remember reading it somewhere. When you're reading this, use the TWO FINGER METHOD. One finger on the page you're reading and one on the key (same hand). This makes it easy to flip back and forth.

I would suggest that you go back and try to read it without flipping back and forth. Great to do at lunch or while you're eating and using your hands. Then you can't flip back and forth and it causes you to learn the outlines much better.

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From the Gregg Writer

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From the Gregg Writer
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Reading is a great aid to the visulaization of outlines. It enables the student to absorb almost unconsciously the correct forms for hundreds of words and phrases. Moreover, the impressions are more likely to be correct than if the outlines were constructed by teh student himself.

from Notes on Lessons in Gregg Shorthand
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IMPORTANCE OF READING SHORTHAND.

The reading of shorthand should not be confined
wholly to one's own notes. It is well to read nicely
engraved or printed shorthand notes. For this pur-
pose the "Gregg Writer" and other shorthand publi-
cations and books are invaluable and should be used
wherever possible. The more reading of shorthand
the pupil gets, the more familiar the characters be-
come, the more readily also they are recalled and
when again heard, the more rapidly they are written.
For years the author of Gregg Shorthand and the
writer of these lines have corresponded in short-
hand, written on unruled paper, and every word has
been as plain and legible as print. Evidence taken
in court, and at hearings has been transcribed read-
ily by both.

Gregg Shorthand by its invariability of outline,
by its one way of writing each word in the English
language, is especially adapted for interchange it.
reading. Subscribe for the shorthand magazine of
your system and provide yourself with all the short-
hand literature of the system. Practice it and read
it until it becomes part of your being. You will
thus lay the solid foundation without which success
cannot be attained.

"Practical pointers for shorthand students"
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From High Speed in Shorthand and how to Obtain it
greggshorthand.proboards.com/thread/317/high-speed-shothand-obtain?page=2#page=1

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In Obstacles to the Attainment of Shorthand Speed it says:

Springing out of the difficulty that arises from a consciousness of imperfect execution of the characters, there comes a lack of confidence in the ability to read what has been written.

The writer who lacks confidence in his ability to read his notes can never make a rapid or accurate writer until this obstacle is overcome. The obvious corrective for this condition is plenty of reading practice, both of engraved shorthand [books or magazines by expert shorthand writers] to emphasize the correct form, and of the writer's own notes to familiarize him with the deviations from correct form.

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In actual shorthand classes, reading aloud was done by students. You can do this too, and even record your voice to see how you read, what you hesitate on, and where you need improvement or are doing great.

Read form the manual. A chapter you have studied, even written out. Beginning students were asked to read from the last lesson, even after writing it. Yes it might be easy to memorize, but it's good practice and gives you confidence.

Read your own notes. When you feel more confident in your reading and writing, read your own notes. Again the previous lesson to gain confidence and see where you are.

Read your dictation from lessons. Read from dictation from material you know. This includes previous lessons, or manuals that have the outlines and key available.

Read from new matter dictation. As you get closer to the end of your learning the theory, you will take new matter dictation (something you haven't saw or heard before). Read from this. This is an excellent way to see how you are in taking dictation.

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A shorthand outline should be first read exactly as it sounds and is written. If you still can't read it try these tips:

• perhaps it is too long; try it short.
  Perhaps it is too short, try it long.
  
  Is it a phrase?
  Is it a brief form?
  
  Does the remainder of the sentence help you read it?
  
  Cut it up into bits.
  
  Think through the outline. Don't just guess or say "close enough". If you really can't think of what it is, finish the reading and then come back. If that doesn't help, ask here.
  
  Often you can catch the meaning of a word by reading ahead. One word in a sentence may give you a clue to the whole sentence.
  
  

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  Remember to practice reading everything you write. Keep at it until you can read it as fast as you do longhand. Try reading your shorthand backward, even upside down and backward. It will sharpen the wits and make it seem easy to read right side up.
  
  Sometimes you can't read a word in shorthand, it is because you do not know it in longhand. What is the remedy for this? Study. When you read, make up your mind never to let a word go by without knowing it's meaning, how to spell it, and how to pronounce it. It is remarkable how soon you will acquire a large vocabulary in this way.
  
  
  

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  Taken in part from New Century Shorthand, Pitman

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Tip from the 1912 Gregg Writer

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From Teacher's Key to Gregg Writer