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Excerpt from Secretarial Studies It is now recognized that, while shorthand and typewriting skill are basic in a secretarial course, this skill, when acquired, is only a tool. On entering the high school or the private business school, students have little training and no experience in business. They know nothing of the ordinary procedure of business, its structure, its functions, or its language. The most commonplace business transactions appear to them to be unintelligible. Whatever preparation they get to equip them for entering the business world, which requires intelligent performance of tasks, must be acquired in the school. With these thoughts in mind the authors of Secretarial Studies have attempted the solution of three specific problems: To develop and perfect the secretarial student's ability as a shorthand writer and typist; To broaden his knowledge of business procedure; To provide sufficient practice in the laboratory work in solving definite secretarial problems, so as to add definitely to the student's equipment as an effective business worker. In working out these problems, two factors have been kept steadily in view: the student's preparation and ability to understand the secretarial problems presented; and, the value of the problems in extending the student's knowledge and increasing his skill. 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.