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by Stephen Shastay (Author)
Steno Test Strategy for Court Reporting Student is an eye-opening book. What do you do when you sit at your machine for a test? How about when you are doing speedbuilding exercises? How do you monitor yourself? In short, how do you know when you are performing at your best level? Steno school is hard enough. Know your strengths. Know your weaknesses. Know how to turn a weakness into a strength.You don't need to drill and drill until your fingers fall off. All you need is a game plan. Control yourself, and you will control your strokes. Read the book. Absorb the tips. Put them into action, and WITH YOUR PRESENT SKILLS, you will perform much better on your stenography tests. Continue using them, and your steno expertise will rise and rise.It's a great book for steno students in school or court reporting professionals who need to brush up for certification tests. Anyone who practices machine shorthand will benefit from the down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach in the book.No hard rules. No difficult things to learn. Just follow easy-to-understand advice, and you will begin to perform at your highest level on every test. This is a very small book. It can be easily read in one sitting. But it is a book that you should refer to often.
Author Biography
For over two decades, Mr. Shastay has taught every stenography class from Theory to 225s, including computer and transcript classes. With his free time, he created several computer programs for court reporters which he initially distributed free to his students. Among his triumphs in stenography are the Drill Machine (an entirely free text reader that he donated to the stenography community as his personal thank you), the Speed Teacher (a wildly popular trainer), CourtReportingHelp.com, (one of the first steno sites to cater solely to students), the famous Four Rules of Stenography (it quickly diagnoses and presents rock-solid solutions to stroking problems), the Magic Drills (the fastest way to learn to always keep up with the dictation, identify hard words and drop when necessary), and the Shastay Way (a no-nonsense compendium that explains exactly what you need without mindless drill or endless memorization). Mr. Shastay's vast collection of 6,000 personally written, recorded and published drills (some up to 300 wpm) was available for years in CD form, but in time, will be converted into audio books. Mr. Shastay loves pizza, burgers, and cheesesteaks. (Yes, "cheesesteak" is one word.) The one theme tying all of his work together is that stenography should not be as tough as people make it. All it really takes is a little knowledge and a little drive.
