Speed Writing Skills Training Course: Speedwriting for Faster Note Taking and Dictation, an Alternative to Shorthand to Help You Take Notes

BakerWrite really cuts the mustard. Also, it is so, so, so easy to learn. For most of us it is all we shall ever need. Lots of us would find it useful:students, researchers, academicsanyone in a commercial officeanyone who regularly drafts letters or reportsprofessionals such as engineers, lawyers, doctors, nursesanyone who regularly attends meetings or conferencesetcSpeedwriting is faster than longhand. The second virtue is worth considering too: it lets you reduce your 'writing miles' by more than 50 percent. Imagine Friday afternoon at the end of a really busy week, which has been jam-packed with lectures or meetings. You have made your notes using less than a half of the writing you would have required when using longhand. Imagine your satisfaction! Because your hand does not need to write so quickly (when compared to longhand) you can lay down a neater copy as well.So, speedwriting gives you wings and it lightens your load. Because of its simplicity and serviceability BakerWrite is one of the best systems you will find. Highly recommended.[ Heather Baker has written 2 books - 'Easy 4 me 2 Learn Speed Writing' and 'Speed Writing Skills Training Course'. The first book has cartoons and the second has photographs. The text in both is the same; this report can be applied to both books, therefore ]

I attempted to learn shorthand in college many years ago - and failed miserably! When I heard about speedwriting I decided I would 'give it ago', as being able to take notes at speed would be very useful in my work. I'm so pleased I bought the book - the method is very easy to use and intuitive, and the book is divided into manageable chunks of learning and practise (which is aided by the free workbook and dictation exercises available from the UoL website).Speedwriting is very easy to learn as long as you put in the practice, and I particularly like that you can adapt it to your own individual requirements.

A very simple guide to teach sensible 'shorthand' to the lay person. It is filled with many useful tips for those who do not wish to learn the squiggles of standard telling/pitman writing. There are many tips throughout e.g. how to shorten suffixes and prefixes which are helpful. One does not have to sit down and go through step by step in order; one can just skim it to pick up handy hints for reducing long, common words of everyday usage. A useful introduction to writing faster.

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I learnt Pitman's shorthand and Teeline many years ago, and have lost the skill through lack of use. Like this system as it is based on Pitman and I can quickly understand the logic.

The books are fantastic. In my role sitting on a lot of committee's which seem to generate loads of reports this is just the kob

Didn’t find this helpful. Hardly used.

As expected.