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StenoDrills.com Download and use the Speed Teacher for free for 21 days. Try it. You'll like it. | Steno QuestionsOn this page we present a series of questions. Your job is to figure out what answer is best for you. After you have given each one some thought, click on the answer to see what we wrote. Remember: your answer may be different. These answers are generalizations. You are in charge of your destiny. You know what is best for you. Steno Question No. 1THE SITUATION: You are in your 200s. There is a certain word that you stumble over each and every time you encounter it. You have a brief for it, but it doesn't come to you as quickly as other briefs. THE QUESTION: Should you continue to use this brief? Say, click here to see what we say. See?
Steno Question No. 2THE SITUATION: You are in 140 Literary, 140 Jury Charge, and 140 Testimony. THE QUESTION: What should you practice to get the greatest gain? Click here or here or even here Steno Question No. 3The Situation: Your writing is fairly clear, your speed is acceptable, and you do not carry many words. The problem is that you are writing the wrong outlines on easy words, such as, the/a, these/those, this/that/the, and from/for. The Question: Why are you making errors on basic patterns? After, eating her words seemed a better choice in retrospect. After eating, her words entertained the other diners. After eating her, words escaped the cannibal. After eating her words, she digested the meaning. Yes/ punctuation; does, matter:)Steno Question No. 4The Situation: Your writing is not smooth. Sometimes, you will be writing extremely well and extremely fast, but then you will hesitate. At other times, you hesitate after every couple of strokes. Rat-a-tat-tat, pause, rat-a-tat, pause, rat-a-tat-tat, pause. The Question: How can you stop hesitating? Steno Question No. 5THE SITUATION: Last semester was tough. You practiced hard, but the results weren't there. During the break, you didn't practice at all. You expected to have trouble in the first week back at school. Surprise, surprise!! You passed a test. THE QUESTION: Why? Steno Question No. 6THE SITUATION: You have trouble remembering your briefs and phrases. This is causing you to stumble on the tests. You don't like that. THE QUESTION: How can you stop stumbling on briefs? Steno Question No. 7THE SITUATION: You have been away from the machine for several years. THE QUESTION: How can you brush up your skills? Steno Question No. 8THE SITUATION: You feel like you have hit a brick wall. THE QUESTION: How do you begin to move forward again? Put your cursor on here and click Steno Question No. 9
We have several things that we use to teach the Rhythm Method. Here are a few of them. 1 The Speed Teacher: Go to CourtReportingHelp.com and download the Speed Teacher. You will be able to use it for 21 days. If you decide you don't like it, you don't pay anything at all, but it will not work after 21 days. After you download it and install it, go back to CourtReportingHelp.com and click on the Speed Teacher link. Look for the drills that are recommended. They are pretty simple, and they will help greatly with reducing your hesitation between strokes. 2. The Magic Drills: Again, go to CourtReportingHelp.com. At the top of the page, click on the Magic Drills link. There are a series of drills that you can download and use for free. These drills teach you what to do when you must drop some words. 3. If you have hesitation because of big words or technical words, you can try two methods. 4 If you have hesitation because of briefs or phrases, you can use: 5 Any kind of hesitation is reduced by doing easy drills or small word drills because these drills should not have many words that cause hesitation. Therefore, if you first learn to remove hesitation from easy drills, you will be on your way to removing hesitation in harder drills. Easy drills can be found on the Tutor Ring CDs (finger drills, small word drills, easy names and numbers, basic briefs and phrases) the Crusoe CD (all words are one syllable), the Finger Drills CD, and the No Frills Drills CDs (JC, Congressional Record, TM). The trick to all of this is very simple. Keep your hands moving at all times. Don't try to move at top speed. All students write fast enough. Instead, you should concentrate on reducing the amount of time between strokes. That is the key. Reduce the time of hesitation, and you will increase the time that you are stroking. That translates into more words written, but without having to write faster. Click here to purchase the Speed Teacher |
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