Speed Writing Skills Training Course: Speedwriting for Faster Note Taking, Writing and Dictation, an Alternative to Shorthand to Help You Take Notes.
I am 51 years old and have been a secretary more or less since I left school.  I took the requisite Pitmans shorthand course whilst at school and have never been able to understand it, all those squiggles and lines.  I have used my own speed writing version of words through the years and have managed to get by (as long as I dealt with the notes as soon as I had written them and the dictator wasn't too quick - so it was half memory and half being able to read my own shorthand version).  But now, everything is so clear and makes complete sense.  I take your book on the train every morning and even after the first reading it completely made sense and I could even remember most of what I had read in the first chapter and believe me my memory at retaining new info is not as it used to be.  Even when I was reading your abbreviations I was able to see what they were in a lot of cases before I checked the meaning.  I am thoroughly enjoying learning a new skill from a book that is so simple to understand and I have already started to implement my new dictionary of words when taking notes. A great big thank you for developing a system that is so easy to understand and completely workable and I looking forward to showing off my new skills when taking notes (which I will actually be able to understand) at the next board meeting. Ann