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