One hundred valuable suggestions to shorthand students ...

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UNITED STATES OF AMEEIGA.

ONE HUNDRED

VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS

Preface

It may seem presumptuous on the part of the author to place before the public a work of this kind when there are so many others whose more varied experience far better fits them for such an undertaking.

Feeling, however, that others who have written works relating to Shorthand have almost wholly neglected to render to the student and young reporter the special help which this little volume is intended to give, and believing that there is a real demand for a work of this kind, the author makes no further apology for its appearance.

The aim of this work is to render assistance to students of all systems of Shorthand by a series of suggestions concerning important facts, only a few of which have ever found a place in any text-book, yet facts which every student should keep constantly in mind. As such, it is believed that it will prove especially serviceable to that large class of students who are undergoing a course of self-instruction. Since that which has been written heretofore, in the same line of the present work, has been confined almost wholly to court and newspaper reporting, more attention is given to amanuensis reporting, a new branch of the profession which has, of late years, far outstripped all the others, both in its numbers and its requirements.

Simplicity of expression has been kept constantly in view that the book may be used by the student for general dictation work as soon as all the principles are learned.

PREFACE.

It is hoped that, in this way, it will serve a double purpose, not only giving the student many valuable hints in regard to his study and practice, but also furnishing suitable material for speed work and, in this way, fixing more firmly in his mind facts which every Shorthand student should know.

That the contents of this little volume may assist that large number of young men and women who are determined to win success in the practice of this beautiful art, is earnestly hoped.

To the many kind friends who have so freely placed at his disposal the valuable lessons learned in their long experience as reporters, and especially to that one who, by constant encouragement, has proven an inspiring genius, not only in this, but also in other and more difficult undertakings, this work is respectfully inscribed by

The Author.

Stenographic Institute, \

Ann Arbor, Mich., Mar., 1886. J