on with your work. Write line after line without lifting the carriage or stopping to see if the machine strikes the wrong key. If you are a touch operator you will instantly know when you have done this. Then raise the carriage and read all you have written, and if you have made a mistake turn the roller back and correct it. It is as easy to correct a mistake six or ten lines back as one line back, so wait for the first known mistake to correct any others that may be noticed.
In learning typewriting, don't trouble to erase your errors. Write slowly and carefully. If you make a mistake, destroy the copy and begin again. Do not be satisfied with typewriting that contains mistakes. When you get into business the inculcated habits of writing correctly will serve you in good stead. In business you will have to erase occasionally to avoid destroying stationery. In your school work, where pressure of time is not so forcibly insisted upon, proceed slowly and accurately with your typewriting. Speed will come to you later.
TRANSCRIBING THE NOTES.
We will assume that the student by this time has so far progressed with his typewriting that he is able to copy business letters and other documents on the machine correctly and at a fairly high rate of speed. He may now be called upon to transcribe his shorthand notes upon the machine. This is likely
