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+id:
+aliases:
+  - gregg notehand
+title: Gregg Notehand
+tags:
+  - authorship/other
+  - destiny/permanent
+  - status/incomplete
+  - type/media/book
+authors:
+  - Deese, James
+  - Leslie, Louis A.
+  - Poe, Roy W.
+  - Zoubek, Charles E.
+edition: Second
+publisher: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
+subtitle: A Personal-Use Shorthand & Integrated Instruction in How to Make Notes
+type: book
+year: 1968
+---
+# Gregg Notehand
+
+## Part One
+
+### 1. Fundamental principles of notemaking
+
+### 2-8. Notehand principles
+
+### 9. Getting ready to study
+
+### 10. Planning your study time
+
+### 11. Select the right notebook for notemaking
+
+### 12. Notemaking from reading
+
+### 13. Rules for remembering what you read
+
+### 14. Notehand recall
+
+### 15. Finding the central idea in your reading
+
+### 16. Finding the central idea in your reading (continued)
+
+### 17. Selecting related ideas
+
+### 18. Using the central idea to build your headings
+
+### 19. Read before you make notes
+
+### 20. Notehand recall
+
+### 21. Making notes in your own words
+
+### 22. Brevity in making notes in your own words
+
+### 23. Organizing notes in narrative summaries
+
+### 24. Organizing notes in outline form
+
+### 25. Leave wide margins
+
+### 26. Notehand recall
+
+### 27. Use longhand headings in your notes
+
+### 28. Use signals for "must remember" items
+
+### 29. Making verbatim notes
+
+### 30. The notemaker is an active listener
+
+### 31. Getting the most out of your listening
+
+### 32. Writing names in your notes
+
+### 33. Notehand recall
+
+### 34. Rules for effective listening
+
+### 35. Rules for effective listening (continued)
+
+### 36. Preserve difficult longhand spellings
+
+### 37. Showing contrasts and comparisons in your notes
+
+### 38. Definitions, background information, and examples
+
+### 39. Notehand recall
+
+### 40. Using notehand in original writing
+
+### 41. Making rough drafts
+
+### 42. Footnotes
+
+### 43. Special uses of notehand in original writing
+
+### 44. How to make notes for research papers
+
+### 45. Getting ready to make notes from research
+
+### 46. Making notes from research
+
+### 47. Writing the research paper
+
+### 48. Notehand recall
+
+## Part Two
+
+### 49. Reviewing and preparing for examinations
+
+### 50. Making derived notes
+
+### 51. Making notes of class discussions
+
+### 52. Making notes of other meetings and discussions
+
+### 53. Making notes as a recorder
+
+### 54. Writing the minutes
+
+### 55. Indexing your notes
+
+### 56. Disposition of your notes
+
+### 57-70. Notehand principles
+
+### Key to Gregg Notehand
+
+### Index to Gregg Notehand
+
+## Gregg Notehand
+
+Gregg Notehand is a simplified form of Gregg Shorthand.
+It is described in the namesake [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand]]
+
+### Critiques
+
+The lessons use sounds-like-(letter)-in-(word) type phoneme definitions,
+and generally suffer from a facile understanding of phonology.
+Totally unacceptable for a proposed alternative alphabet,
+but then the text does not understand that's what it's proposing.
+
+> [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
+> **Silent letters omitted.**
+> In the English language many words contain letters that are not pronounced.
+> In Notehand these silent letters are omitted,
+> and only those sounds in a word are written that are actually pronounced.
+> For example,
+> in the word say, the y would not be written because it is not pronounced;
+> say would be written s-a.
+> The word face would be written f-a-s;
+> the final e would be omitted because it is not pronounced,
+> and the c would be represented by the s stroke because it is pronounced s.
+>
+> What letters in the following words would not be written in Notehand
+> because they are not pronounced?
+>
+> * day
+> * eat
+> * main
+> * mean
+> * save
+> * steam
+
+***
+
+> [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
+> Gregg Notehand is easy to learn---easier, actually, than longhand. Why?
+> In longhand, there are many different ways of writing a given letter;
+> in Gregg Notehand, there is only one way.
+
+This is a baffling first paragraph.
+Without further clarification,
+the text seems to be implying that students learning longhand
+are expected to learn to read and write
+many forms of the same letter,
+where reality is the opposite.
+
+In fact, it is plain to see from the lessons in the text
+that Gregg Notehand had far more individual character variation
+than is accepted of the English alphabet.
+
+The text does not specify winding direction for circular forms
+(e.g. "a" and "e"),
+nor is the illustrator consistent between words.
+For many words, neither option is more intuitive,
+and the choice _radically_ changes its form.
+
+More damningly, in Lesson 26 we learn
+the "s" stroke _is allowed to be written backwards._
+
+It's a very strange choice,
+claiming that a shorthand is less ambiguous
+than the writing system it replaces.
+I'm sure its possible,
+but English doesn't have enough frills to cut off.
+Shorthand trades certainty for speed,
+that's the whole point.
+
+***
+
+Some words, especially those more than one syllable,
+I believe are illustrated incorrectly
+based on preceding text and examples.
+"Navy" is particularly egregious.