who will meet once or twice a week or oftener, and read aloud in turn. Try this; it will increase your speed, enlarge your knowledge, add to your vocabulary and benefit you in many ways. Dictation from any interesting book, leading articles from a newspaper, any matter, in fact, that is good English will assist you materially. "All is grist that comes to the mill" in the shape of practice, and the wider the scope of the reading the better the result. Improve yourself.
INDEPENDENT READING.
In all your writing of shorthand do not neglect to read independently and without assistance from your dictator. Good reading will come by practice, but in no other way. Make sense of what you transcribe and don't substitute. By that we mean don't "make sense of it" by reading something that is similar, but not quite correct. The business man in dictating a letter wants transcribed exactly what he said. He does not want you to substitute or put in something that he did not say, because you cannot read your notes. Neither does he desire you to alter a sentence because it reads better that way. Your duty as a stenographer is to record the expressed thoughts or spoken words of your employer, or dictator, intelligently, and you can do this only when you write shorthand rapidly enough to record what is dictated and read your
