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Pitman New Era Anniversary Edition Paperback – 25 April 1997

by Audrey O'Dea (Author)

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Pitman New Era shorthand is geared to the needs of top secretaries and professional shorthand writers.

The fastest and most accurate shorthand system, it is in world-wide use with speeds of up to 350 words per minute. The phonetic system is ideal for specialist and technical use ― for example on legal, medical and bilingual work ― and its speed makes it the first choice for all verbatim recorders. Millions of people across the globe have studied New Era, qualified and entered well-paid professions.

Each piece of new theory is reinforced with five practice sentences.
Includes short forms, phrase drills and 'practical dictation' sections of letters, memos and reports.
Provides appendices with advice on the treatment of figures and verbatim reporting.
Gives a separate alphabetic list of short forms and intersections.

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058229889X
ISBN-13

978-0582298897
Edition

1st
Publisher

Longman
Publication date

25 April 1997
Language

English
Dimensions

13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
Print length

160 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Longman; 1st edition (25 April 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 058229889X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0582298897
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm

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Alice1974

Great instructional book on learning shorthand.

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Brought back memories of my learning shorthand in the '60's.

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Squirrel

Great revision of Pitman shorthand

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Great revision of Pitman shorthand. Wish this book had been round when I first learnt the system, would have got through it much quicker.

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Mr. B. Dobson Business

Rather overpriced

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There are cheaper and perhaps just as explicit tutorials in other books. Suggest investigation before purchasing this item although what it contains is, as one would expect, good

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Five Stars

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The book is exactly like a new one! Very happy with it :)

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Bluebird

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Great for revising

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Bella Swan

Does what it says on the tin

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 March 2009

I got this as part of a college course. The teacher recommended it. And some of the newspapers insist you have it.

If you buy this book you must get the key as well - Pitman New Era Shorthand Key: Key It's easier than the older version, but it is exactly like learning a new foreign language.

I think if you get this you will need some kind of extra guidance (web site or teacher), because you might not notice small things yourself, like the thickness or length of a line or whether the dot is in the middle or top.

I'm a bit wary of shorthand, because if you don't practice every day you forget it and I don't want to be stuck with something I can't read back. So I'm concentrating on using some of the short forms and I have got quicker taking notes.

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Mark L

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 November 2009

First a little background about me. I have decided to learn shorthand because I thought it would be a useful skill. I bought this book to learn shorthand by myself through self study. I haven't bought this book for a secretarial course, and I'm not a secretary/journalist, or seeking to become one. Accordingly while I want to be able to read and write shorthand quickly, my requirements may differ from yours.

The Review:
Great book, composed of twenty units and five appendices. Each unit deals with a topic; ie unit 1 is straight downstrokes, unit 2 is curved strokes etc. The book is well written, no fluff, just clear instructions. The author immediately begins to introduce the reader/learner to vowels (a and e) in the first unit and to some 'short forms' (frequently used words, such as 'to', 'but', 'it' and 'do' which can be expressed in shorthand by a single sign or abbreviated outline). The effect is that you feel like you're making immediate progress without becoming overwhelmed. New short form phrases are introduced in each unit. At the end of each unit is a 'theory check'. This consists of ten longhand words (covering the new material in the unit) for you to transcribe into shorthand. The correct answers are listed in the back of the book. The book also contains a simple, but I think effective, study plan and 'practice dictations' in each unit. More on these 'practice dictations' below.

A note on the 'Key' books. I didn't buy either of the key books. I don't think these are necessary. Let me explain my reasoning. Each unit contains a few lines of shorthand under the headings 'reading and writing practice', 'short form and phrasing practice' and 'practical dictation'. I think that the idea is to read this shorthand into a dictaphone and then play it back to yourself and take the dictation in shorthand. Thereby practicing both reading and writing shorthand quickly. There is no 'longhand' answer/translation provided in the book for these exercises and presumably that's what the 'Key' books are for. However I don't think the 'Key' is necessary because (1) this practice only contains stroke forms and short forms covered in that unit or previous units, and (2) making the effort to translate them yourself is essential to learning. While it could be argued that it would be nice to use the 'Key' book to check the correctness of your translations, I don't think this is necessary. I think that not having the 'Key' is better because it forces you to do the translation by yourself. I think if I had the 'Key' I'd probably get lazy and consult it more often than I should! :)

The book has a five appendices including inter alia a list of short form phrases used in the book, and another on other useful short form phrases.

I've given this book a five star because I think it genuinely merits it.

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