Abstract
This study-student’s poor performance in shorthand and typewriting – causes and suggested remedies – A comparative study of three selected educational tertiary institutions in Enugu College of Education Metropolis was undertaken with a prime objectives on how to improve student’s poor performances in shorthand and typewriting. This focus is in the areas of taking down notes speedily as well as transcribing and producing accurate neat work in both academic and office works. It is also meant to create awareness on the usefulness of shorthand and typewriting in day-to-day activities in all aspect of the economy. In order to get genuine facts and information, related literature were reviewed, eliciting views and opinions of different specialists and experts. In addition, some selected institutions were sampled and a total of 100 copies of the questionnaires were administered to both students and lecturers.
During the course of research, some problems were identified which range from students attitude towards the subjects, inadequate knowledge of the use of English Language, lack of concentration, inadequate equipment and improper representation of shorthand outlines insufficient guidance and counseling. The researchers are therefore of the view that all the recommendations outlined in chapter five of this study such as the authorities of every institutions making effort to provide the students with adequate shorthand and typewriting facilities, if accepted and implemented will help to reduce and or solve the students poor performance in shorthand and typewriting subjects generally.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
According to American Encyclopedia International (1956:356), “shorthand has come a long way from the days when dictation was taken by making signs on clay tablets or stones. Greeks and Egyptians used shorthand in speed writing contents, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries John Robert Cregy Published shorthand boot light Inc phonograph (1888) and sir Isaac Pitman (1837) together with other inventors of shorthand books, brought about the recognition of shorthand all over the world. As human beings tend towards civilization, the need for effective communication cannot be over emphasized, communicating with one another has been found to make the world move round communication as Herbert (1976 :53) said is the act of transferring meaning or knowledge from one persons to another, (the link, 1992). All human organizations live by communication.
Without communication no organization can exist or survive for it, it is the tool of management and co-ordination. It is almost a general consensus that the various changes in technological advancement in form of recording, writing and processing can only complement the duty of a confidential secretary in matters of urgency and acute necessity. It does not follow that these media per se can fully substitute the work of confidential secretaries hence the drive for shorthand writers, typists and secretaries in all aspects of business world. Shorthand is the art of writing rapidly and legibly by means of characters or signs in place of the conventional letters or worlds. The oxford English Mini Dictionary (1995) defines shorthand as “a method of writing rapidly with quickly made symbols”. It is said that shorthand is one of the cornerstone subjects of business education system of shorthand, were based on the alphabetical spelling of words, in contemporary shorthand, which are generally phonetic and based on speech, sounds, dateline circles, dashes and other easy way to write characters for recording sounds, syllabus and phrases frequently used. There are many inventors of shorthand namely Sir Isaac Pitman, Thomas Allen, Emily D. Smith (B. Sc) to mention but few
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