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Excerpt from The Universal Dictation Course of Dement's Testimony Shorthand: Made Up of Business Letters From Twenty-Six Different Businesses, Together With Legal Papers, Depositions, and Testimony From Civil and Criminal Cases The text-book of this system is a complete instructor as far as the principles of the system are concerned. It is not intended that this book shall take the place of the text-book, but that it shall be used as an auxiliary to the text-book. It is designed to follow the text-book, as a graded, classified, Dictation Course, for which there has always been a demand. Throughout the Dictation Course the student is recommended to make free 13 use of the text-book, by frequent reference to it, in all cases in which an outline is not understood, or a principle is forgotten. It is intended for all grades of writers, but especially, to take the student at the very beginning of dictation and lead him, in a most systematic manner, through a carefully graded course, from the easiest, ordinary business letters, to the most difficult matter. The course should be practised and written through repeatedly, occasionally reviewing work passed over, and speed and accuracy will result. It will be of great advantage to the instructors, students and writers of the 3 system, for systematic study and practise, in systematically planning the work in the schoolroom and classifying the school, for special preparation in any particular$ line of business, for gaining speed and at the same time keeping the notes in good form, and as a book of reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.