Download or read book Speed Writing the 21st Century Alternative to Shorthand Easy 4 Me 2 Learn International English written by Heather Baker and published by www.UoLearn.com. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speed Writing - the 21st century alternative to shorthand Most people need a note taking system for work or study but few people have the time or inclination to spend a year or two learning shorthand. BakerWrite Speed Writing enables you to learn a new system in a matter of hours and become proficient within weeks. This book is laid out in 6 easy to follow lessons, that take about an hour each. Practical guided exercises, with full answers, in each chapter and each session is rounded off with a dictation passage. Save time and become more efficient taking dictation, in meetings, on the telephone, in lectures or interviews. No strange squiggles to learn - just different ways to use the letters you already know. Your notes will be easy to transcribe. Enhance your career with a new skill. Save time by reducing your written text by an average of 33% - often more. Adapt the system to suit your needs. Free downloadable dictionary and workbook, available from http: //www.UoLearn.com A terrific opportunity to save time and change your working practises - for the better! What do people think of this speed writing system? "BakerWrite is the easiest shorthand system I have come across. Having studied all the major shorthand systems and even other speed writing courses, I find BakerWrite a sheer delight." "I will use this system all the time." "Your system is so easy to learn and use." "I will recommend this course to everyone who takes notes." "I am 51 years old and have been a secretary more or less since I left school. I took the requisite Pitmans shorthand course whilst at school and have never been able to understand it, all those squiggles and lines. I have used my own speed writing version of words through the years and have managed to get by (as long as I dealt with the notes as soon as I had written them and the dictator wasn't too quick - so it was half memory and half being able to read my own shorthand version). But now, everything is so clear and makes complete sense. I take your book on the train every morning and even after the first reading it completely made sense and I could even remember most of what I had read in the first chapter and believe me my memory at retaining new info is not as it used to be. Even when I was reading your abbreviations I was able to see what they were in a lot of cases before I checked the meaning. I am thoroughly enjoying learning a new "skill" from a book that is so simple to understand and I have already started to implement my new dictionary of words when taking notes. A great big thank you for developing a system that is so easy to understand and completely workable and I looking forward to "showing off" my new skills when taking notes (which I will actually be able to understand) at the next board meeting." Ann, Knightsbridge, London About the author - Heather Baker Heather had over twenty years' experience as a secretary and PA before setting up Baker Thompson Associates Limited in 2000. The company specializes in the training and development of secretarial and administrative staff, www.bakerthompsonassoc.co.uk. She now travels all over the UK working with large and small companies to enable their office staff and PAs to work more effectively and efficiently. She also delivers courses in the Middle and Far East. She worked for ICI Pharmaceuticals (now AstraZeneca) and Hewlett Packard; she spent 5 years in France working for the Commercial Director of Cognac Hine and then 10 years with Granada Media working up to Personal Assistant to the Managing Director, commuting regularly between their offices in Manchester and London. She developed this speed writing system to fulfil a requirement by many companies for a quick and easy way for their employees to take notes.

Download or read book Speed Writing Skills Training Course written by Heather Baker and published by www.UoLearn.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speed Writing Skills Training Course: Speedwriting, a guide to faster note taking, an easy to learn alternative to shorthand Most people need a note taking system for work or study but few people have the time or inclination to spend a year or two learning shorthand. BakerWrite Speed Writing enables you to learn a new system in a matter of hours and become proficient within weeks. This book is laid out in 6 easy to follow lessons, that take about an hour each. Practical guided exercises, with full answers, in each chapter and each session is rounded off with a dictation passage (available from http: //www.UoLearn.com) Save time and become more efficient taking dictation, in meetings, on the telephone, in lectures or interviews. No strange squiggles to learn - just different ways to use the letters you already know. Your notes will be easy to transcribe. A terrific opportunity to save time and change your working practices - for the better What do people think of this speed writing system? "The principles are very easy to follow, and I am already using it to take notes." "BakerWrite is the easiest shorthand system I have come across. Having studied all the major shorthand systems and even other speed writing courses, I find BakerWrite a sheer delight." "I will use this system all the time." "Your system is so easy to learn and use." Heather studied Pitman shorthand at school and then at secretarial college in England; she later learned Teeline shorthand and now regularly teaches these. BakerWriteTM is based on her experience with these systems and 22 years as a secretary and PA - taking notes daily. She has been training and coaching secretaries, PAs and administrators since 2000. Please note there is an alternative edition of this book, Easy 4 Me 2 Learn Speed Writing. Heather had over twenty years' experience as a secretary and PA before setting up Baker Thompson Associates Limited in 2000. The company specializes in the training and development of secretarial and administrative staff, www.bakerthompsonassoc.co.uk She now travels all over the UK working with large and small companies to enable their office staff and PAs to work more effectively. She developed this speed writing system to fulfill a requirement by many companies for a quick and easy way for their employees to take notes. The course became very popular and she was often asked if there was a book with the basics of the system - so here it is To contact Heather please visit the speedwriting section of the publishers' website, http: //www.UoLearn.com I am 51 years old and have been a secretary more or less since I left school. I took the requisite Pitmans shorthand course whilst at school and have never been able to understand it, all those squiggles and lines. I have used my own speed writing version of words through the years and have managed to get by (as long as I dealt with the notes as soon as I had written them and the dictator wasn't too quick - so it was half memory and half being able to read my own shorthand version). But now, everything is so clear and makes complete sense. I take your book on the train every morning and even after the first reading it completely made sense and I could even remember most of what I had read in the first chapter and believe me my memory at retaining new info is not as it used to be. Even when I was reading your abbreviations I was able to see what they were in a lot of cases before I checked the meaning. I am thoroughly enjoying learning a new skill from a book that is so simple to understand and I have already started to implement my new dictionary of words when taking notes. A great big thank you for developing a system that is so easy to understand and completely workable and I looking forward to showing off my new skills when taking notes (which I will actually be able to understand) at the next board meeting. Ann

Download or read book Easy 4 Me 2 Learn Speed Writing written by Heather Baker and published by Universe of Learning Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This covers an innovative technique for speedwriting. It is laid out as a series of 6 hour long lessons, all with exercises to help build your speed writing skills. Answers are given to the exercises and end of chapter dictations are available. Heather is an experienced PA who has trained people to use her faster writing techniques for many years.

Download or read book Writing Meeting Minutes and Agendas Taking Notes of Meetings Sample Minutes and Agendas Ideas for Formats and Templates Minute Taking Training Wi written by Heather Baker and published by www.UoLearn.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Meeting Minutes and Agendas is easy to read and has lots of exercises to help you develop your skills. It has advice on note taking, summarising, preparing agendas, becoming more confident in your role, working with the chair, writing skills and listening skills. There is a useful list of the order of tasks and a checklist with timings.

Download or read book Speed Writing Modern Shorthand an Easy to Learn Note Taking System written by Heather Baker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speed Writing - Modern Shorthand An easy to learn tried and tested alternative to shorthand. Are you puzzled by all the squiggles when you see shorthand? Did you know that it can take years to become proficient at shorthand? Here's your solution. A simple and easy to learn system that can be mastered in just a few weeks. BakerWrite speed writing enables you to learn a new hand writing system in a matter of hours and become really quick in just a few weeks. It relies on using normal letters and easy to learn principles to speed up your writing. Join over 25 000 people from all over the world who have already studied this course. We also have a UK spelling edition just search for the unique ISBN number 9781537566603. This book has a short dictionary to help you learn the new forms of the words. We also publish an extended speed writing dictionary of over 5800 words, including all 1000 of the most common words in written English (ISBN 9781534683204). This book is laid out in 6 easy to follow lessons, that take about an hour each Practical guided exercises, with example answers Save time and become efficient at taking dictation, in meetings, on the telephone and in lectures No strange squiggles to learn - just different ways to use the letters you already know Your notes will be easy to read and transcribe Adapt the system to suit your needs Free downloadable dictionary and workbook A terrific opportunity to save time and become more efficient and professional! Heather Baker Heather is a very experienced PA, who worked at boardroom level for high profile companies. She is now an acclaimed international trainer presenting in the Middle and Far East, Australia and South Africa, as well as webinars for the USA. She created the BakerWriteTM speed writing system to help people take notes using techniques that can be learned in just a few weeks. She thoroughly tested it and has been teaching it for over eleven years. Quotes about BakerWrite "I will use this system all the time." "This is so easy to learn and use." "I am thoroughly enjoying learning a new skill from a book that is so simple to understand and I have already started to implement it." "BakerWrite is the easiest shorthand system I have come across. Having studied all the major shorthand systems and even other speed writing courses, I find BakerWrite a sheer delight." "I will recommend this course to anyone who takes notes."

Download or read book MiniScript Shorthand written by Levin Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing shorthand systems (Gregg, Pitman, Teeline) provide non-alphabetical symbols or outlines to increase the writing speed. A number of writing strokes is significantly reduced and a high speed can be attained. However, a great deal of time must be spent on memorization and retention is difficult if you decide to use Gregg, Pitman, Teeline and similar symbol-based methods. On the other hand, speedwriting methods use alphabet letters and are easier to learn. But they require two or three strokes to write a standard letter and can not match a writing speed attainable by non-alphabetical shorthand. The MiniScript system is non-alphabetical version of the EasyScript method and designed to simplify learning and provide a high writing speed comparable to symbol-based shorthand and. EasyScript was introduced in 1990 and has become a viable alternative in the United States and worldwide for those who prefer to utilize alphabet-based speedwriting. MiniScript employs: a) a proven and popular EasyScript alphabet-based abbreviation methodology that reduces considerably the memorization volume by using a small set of abbreviating rules and b) writing abbreviations with special symbols to attain writing speeds comparable to non-alphabetical shorthand. Applying MiniScript you will need to remember only a list of 9 special symbols representing English alphabet. Symbols from conventional PC keyboard such as period (.), slash (/), comma (, ) are used and require little or no training. EasyScript book is not required to study MiniScript. A demo of EasyScript is available at our website easyscript.com

Download or read book Speed Writing Dictionary Over 5800 Words an Alternative to Shorthand written by Heather Baker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speed Writing Dictionary An easy to learn tried and tested alternative to shorthand. Over 7700 abbreviations to speed up your writing. Are you puzzled by all the squiggles when you see shorthand? Did you know that it can take years to become proficient at shorthand? Here's your solution. A simple and easy to learn system that can be mastered in just a few weeks. This is an extensive dictionary based on the BakerWrite speed writing system. We have a UK spelling edition of this dictionary just search for the unique ISBN number 9781537567396. We also publish the companion book Speed Writing - Modern Shorthand by Heather Baker (ISBN 9781532704918), which has lots of exercises and explains how to use the system. There are over 7700 words in the speed writing dictionary All 4000 of the most common words in written English Lots of space to add your own variations No strange squiggles to learn - just different ways to use the letters you already know Your notes will be easy to read and transcribe Adapt the system to suit your needs Speed up your note taking with this system based on the principles of shorthand but using normal letters. This dictionary is a joint venture created by three highly experienced trainers who are all best-selling authors. Heather Baker was an executive PA at director level for many years and left to start her own training company. She created the BakerWrite speed writing system as a modern and easy to learn alternative to shorthand. Joanna Gutmann is an experienced administrator who started her training consultancy over 20 years ago specializing in minute taking. She is an accredited BakerWrite trainer and developed this dictionary to help people use the system. Margaret Greenhall was a lecturer and became an educational consultant in 2003. Between the three authors this dictionary has been developed to give a huge reference of words to use in speed writing. Quotes about BakerWrite "I will use this system all the time." "This is so easy to learn and use." "I will recommend this course to anyone who takes notes." Joanna Gutmann Joanna became involved in training whilst working in a PA role in a training center. She left to start her business in the early nineties and continued to work in that area, increasingly specializing in business writing. Today, her business is focused on 'the meeting' with training on chairing, minute taking, report writing and speed reading. Joanna is delighted to hold a license to run the BakerWrite speed writing training. Heather Baker Heather is a very experienced PA, who worked at boardroom level for high profile companies. She is now an acclaimed international trainer. She created the BakerWriteTM speed writing system to help people take notes using techniques that can be learned in just a few weeks. She thoroughly tested it and has been teaching it for over eleven years. Dr Margaret Greenhall Margaret was a chemistry lecturer for eight years and she became fascinated by how and why people learn. She moved to staff development and learned more about how people share information with each other. In 2003 Margaret left the university to start a training and educational consultancy business. She combines face to face training with a portfolio of writing and publishing.

Download or read book The GREGG Shorthand Manual Simplified written by John R. Gregg and published by McGraw-Hill Prof Med/Tech. This book was released on 1955-06-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new and easier version of Gregg shorthand--the world's most widely used shorthand system"--Jacket.

Download or read book Electronic Shorthand written by Michelle Campbell-Scott and published by Michelle Scott. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can never find a pen but always have an electronic device, Electronic Shorthand might be for you! If you need to take notes for study, business, hobbies, or memory problems, Electronic Shorthand could be the answer to your problems. It's a quick and easy-to-learn method of taking notes on an electronic device - a smartphone, tablet, or computer. Unlike traditional shorthand, it doesn't involve learning a whole new language, it's similar to 'texting' but with a few simple rules. It will enable you to take extensive notes, quickly and easily, and have them available anywhere in the cloud - without having to transcribe them or type them up afterwards. This is ideal for students and anyone who studies online or off. It's also great for reporters - you don't need to invest years into learning Pitman or Gregg or Teeline, and you won't need to worry about storing your notebooks or bits of paper. Business people love this method for taking down client briefs, networking/conference notes, and for organizing their lives. Electronic Shorthand could save you hassle, stress, and confusion.

Download or read book Pitman Shorthand Instructor And Key written by Pitman and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Capital in the Twenty First Century written by Thomas Piketty and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

Download or read book The Boston Girl written by Anita Diamant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller! An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told “with humor and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine” (People)—from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent. Anita Diamant’s “vivid, affectionate portrait of American womanhood” (Los Angeles Times), follows the life of one woman, Addie Baum, through a period of dramatic change. Addie is The Boston Girl, the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family, born in 1900 to parents who were unprepared for America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End of Boston, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie’s intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can’t imagine—a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, to finding the love of her life, eighty-five-year-old Addie recounts her adventures with humor and compassion for the naïve girl she once was. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world. “Diamant brings to life a piece of feminism’s forgotten history” (Good Housekeeping) in this “inspirational…page-turning portrait of immigrant life in the early twentieth century” (Booklist).

Download or read book Gregg Shorthand written by John Robert Gregg and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding Machine Learning written by Shai Shalev-Shwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces machine learning and its algorithmic paradigms, explaining the principles behind automated learning approaches and the considerations underlying their usage.

Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Download or read book Curriculum 21 written by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today?" With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K-12 curriculum. Sharing her expertise as a world-renowned curriculum designer and calling upon the collective wisdom of 10 education thought leaders, Jacobs provides insight and inspiration in the following key areas: * Content and assessment: How to identify what to keep, what to cut, and what to create, and where portfolios and other new kinds of assessment fit into the picture. * Program structures: How to improve our use of time and space and groupings of students and staff. * Technology: How it's transforming teaching, and how to take advantage of students' natural facility with technology. * Media literacy: The essential issues to address, and the best resources for helping students become informed users of multiple forms of media. * Globalization: What steps to take to help students gain a global perspective. * Sustainability: How to instill enduring values and beliefs that will lead to healthier local, national, and global communities. * Habits of mind: The thinking habits that students, teachers, and administrators need to develop and practice to succeed in school, work, and life. The answers to these questions and many more make Curriculum 21 the ideal guide for transforming our schools into what they must become: learning organizations that match the times in which we live.

Download or read book Proofreading Revising Editing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day written by Brady Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this eBook, you'll learn the principles of grammar and how to manipulate your words until they're just right. Strengthen your revising and editing skills and become a clear and consistent writer." --