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Excerpt from Gregg Reporting Shortcuts This book is intended for writers of Gregg Shorthand who desire to become reporters, and particularly for those who wish to become court reporters. The book deals almost wholly with the question of securing the high degree of shorthand skill needed in reporting, and no attempt is made to explain the duties of a reporter, the procedure or organization of court or hearings. These matters are covered very completely in several books on the subject, particularly in The Stenographic Expert, by Mr. Willard B. Bottome, of which admirable book a Gregg edition is now in preparation. The reporting phrases and shortcuts in this book embody the accumulated experience of many of the most expert writers of the system. The compilation of the court-reporting phrases began in 1910 and 1911, at the time Mr. Swem, Miss Tarr, and Miss Werning were preparing for the national shorthand speed contests. The court testimony, jury charges, arguments of counsel, and straight literary matter, used by these writers for practice, were exhaustively analyzed and the commonly-recurring phrases listed. The shorthand forms for these phrases were tested for legibility at high speed, and only those that passed this "acid test" were retained. When forms for phrases of common occurrence in court work were found to be too long for the exigencies of of very high speed, briefer forms were devised-always in harmony with the fundamental principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.