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Shorthand Stenography Online Course Chapter 4 “Stenographer, His Techniques and Equipment Qualities of a Successful Stenographer. ”

Stenographer, His Techniques and Equipment Qualities of a Successful Stenographer.  During the course of his official duties, a Stenographer may have to take dictation, receive telephone calls and visitors, fix appointments for his officer, maintain diary of engagements, meetings and reminders to be sent, keep a note of movement of files, and generally assist his officer in such matters as the latter may direct. He may also dispose of such work...
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Shorthand Stenography Online Course Chapter 3 “Importance of Shorthand”

Importance of Shorthand When shorthand was invented in the 4th Century B.C. it was used only for verbatim reporting of speeches. Its use was later extended to write communications. It shows that the usefulness of shorthand has been recognised by all in every part of the world. Shorthand has received greater importance because of the following factors:- (i) Shorthand writing is faster than longhand writing (ii) It provides jobs to a...
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Shorthand Stenography Online Course Chapter 2 “What is Stenography ?”, ” Pitman’s system of Shorthand”

What is Stenography ? The term ‘Stenography’ is composed of two words ‘steno’ and ‘graphy’. ‘Steno’ means narrow, ‘graphy’ means to write. So, Stenography means the art or any method of writing very quickly. Stenography was later known as Shorthand. Shorthand has been described by Sir Isaac Pitman as ‘the art of representing spoken sounds in shorthand characters (written signs)’. Shorthand provides a way of representing every sound heard in English...
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