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Stenography Theory

Anna Mae Tedley

Theory for the Thinking Stenography Student

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No slop, no drop, no shadows, no carrying.  Slow down and write perfect steno outlines.

Pay attention to the basics of stenography, and you will see an improvement when you do a speed drill.  If your fingers can do the single letters quickly and without hesitation, than your normal strokes will be quicker and with less hesitation.  Stenography isn't that hard.  All that it really requires is a high degree of clarity and a lot of practice.

TEDLEY Upper KeysThese two steno drills are the easiest.  When you have mastered both of them, go on to the "Combined" drills.
TEDLEY Lower Keys
TEDLEY Left Hand Combined No vowels.  Just consonants.  Very good steno drill.
TEDLEY Upper Keys CombinedThese steno drills are wickedly simple.  Be prepared to become frustrated.  Be prepared to learn which letters cause you to stumble.

Do not attempt these until you have practiced Tedley Upper Keys and Tedley Lower Keys.  

TEDLEY Lower Keys Combined.

This last section is for the masters of the stenography keyboard.  Do not spend much time here if you haven't mastered the easy drills.  You must master the stenography basics first.  

TEDLEY RIGHT HAND Drills

A good all-purpose workout for the right hand.  The patterns are basic combinations for the eight home keys of the right hand: FRPBLGTS.
 

TEDLEY Right-hand Letters D AND Z

This article is highly recommended.  The drill at the end attacks one of the most common problem areas of the upper speeds.  It is a short drill, but it is one of the best steno drills around.  

The Speed Teacher and Anna Mae

We are proud to include Anna Mae Tedley's Finger Drills in the Speed Teacher.   

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Besides Anna Mae's famous drills, there are drills on prefixes, suffixes, numbers, names, dates, money, cities, countries, endings, common words, the Top 100 words, the top 1000 words, basic jury charge words, basic testimony words and much more.

And then there is The EMMAnator.  It is an unusual drilling technique.  You can choose whether the words you drill on are small or large, but that is the only control other than the speed of the drill.  Some of the words, even the small ones, are very hard, but they are a random selection of words of all kinds.  Be prepared to see words that you have never heard of before because the Speed Teacher has a very large database.

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Right-Hand Letters D and Z
Anna Mae Tedley

The majority of bad steno strokes involve the right hand. The reason for this is simple. When you begin to stroke a word, almost invariably you begin by forming the beginning of the stroke first. This is natural and normal, and it would be kind of silly to expect otherwise. That means that when you stroke the word "word", you will think of those four letters and where they are on the keyboard, but the letter "w" is going to get just the tiniest bit more attention than the rest of the letters.  That tiny microsecond of extra time will always make the left hand appear stronger and more controlled.
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