speed requires not only a well-trained mind, but a well-trained hand." This harmony of mind and hand can only be attained by practice. Master every principle of your system of shorthand thoroughly. Have someone read to you on a variety of matter, so as to enlarge your vocabulary, and apply your rules and principles to every new word. Write in shorthand and think in shorthand.
Read Your Own Notes. Read everything you write. Better even than reading is to transcribe on the typewriter every word that you write in shorthand. Omit nothing; make sense of all, you transcribe. Read also everything you can find printed in shorthand. Of course the best practice is obtained when you read your own notes. In transcribing read always a few sentences, so as to avail yourself of the context, carrying as much of the transcript in your mind as you can at one time, so as to keep the carriage of your machine traveling the whole time.
Word Building. It is an impossibility for any mind to memorize arbitrary outlines for all the words in the English language. The rules and principles of your system, if properly applied, will enable you to write the most difficult words in the language with ease and accuracy. This word-building facility is the foundation of the reportorial structure. "The key to success in the practice of shorthand." writes Mr. Brown, "is in the mastery of the word-building
