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28 October 2018

The Letter






The trick now will be to put this into practice.

5 comments:

  1. It's hard to beat those old typing books. I had the opportunity to take one year of typing in high school and I'm happy I did. It got me through college without the need to have someone type my work. Later, and now it helps with my computer programming. I'll still use a pencil, fountain pen or manual typewriter before choosing a PC for most of my writing and correspondence.

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  2. Excellent points. I am grateful that I got to take typing in junior high. I did much better there than in shop!

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  3. I too was fortunate to take a typing course (in the 9th grade: 3rd form for any UK readers out there). Without irony, I consider it the most useful class I had in public school.

    I recently bought an earlier equivalent of your Gregg typing book (20th Century Touch Typewriting by Lessenberry and Jevon, 1927) and found it suprisingly useful although I'm already a touch typist. It showed me weaknesses in my typing that I wasn't aware of while keeping me interested with antique forms and standards for correspondence.

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  4. Thank you all for your comments. I really enjoy and learn from this. I am envious of you formally trained typists. I suppose, with practice, I will be able to bash out my prose with less effort and thought through diligent practice. What is it? 10,000 hours?

    Beside being a great book to learn from, I also appreciate that it has real world practically, as Joh Cooper noted. There are examples of letters and document styles through out so that my typing skills improve, so will be practical application of these skills.

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  5. Unless you want to win national typing contests, the 10,000 hours figure is BS for typing. You should be touch-typing confidently in ten to twenty hours. What nobody mentions is that touch typing feels good. It's a pleasure to channel your thoughts through all the fingers of both hands, and a supreme pleasure when you start to realize you've stopped worrying about it and are now "beaming" your thoughts right on to the page.

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