This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...reporters by preparing their transcripts from the dictation machines. In so doing the student will learn reporting forms, the same as he would in amanuensis dictation, although his speed would have to be attained by separate practice. When the student has acquired sufficient skill to take examinations of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...reporters by preparing their transcripts from the dictation machines. In so doing the student will learn reporting forms, the same as he would in amanuensis dictation, although his speed would have to be attained by separate practice. When the student has acquired sufficient skill to take examinations of witnesses at a pretty good speed, then and not until then should he go into court and practice there. It will be well for him to make known to the official stenographer, and through him to the court officer, what he wishes to do, and then he will generally get a suitable place at a table to work. Should he not do this, the officer might think he was too near the jury, and ask him to step outside the railing. At first the writer will stumble and fall, and feel discouraged. A rapid witness or counsel may knock him out, and he will wish he was somewhere else. But let him jump up and go at it again, and again, and again, and finally he will catch on and feel that he is "one of us." THE WORK OF THE COURT REPORTER By Charles Currier Beale (Extract from a paper read before the New England Shorthand Reporters' Association) ET me give you an idea of what is required of a court reporter. The average rate of speaking which he must record word for word in his notebook is one hundred and fifty words per minute. To be sure, this speed is sometimes slackened to a hundred, but often increased to two hundred; and this average speed must be kept up hour after hour under any and all conditions, with any and all kinds of language. The words of the English language as used in ordinary speech will average at least five letters to a word. These five letters in the ordinary longhand will require at least twenty distinct motions of the pen. The useful art of...
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