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INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Sir, Isaac Pitman (1937) defined shorthand as the art of writing by sound. According to him “Shorthand is the art of representing spoken sounds by character.” There is much difference between shorthand characters or outlines and English Language characters (Longhand). The shorthand outlines consists of 25 single consonants, 24 double consonants and 16 vowel sounds, Related Sounds are represented […]
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For the effective discharge of their duties, professional secretaries must have a mastery of the basic office skills. These skills include Shorthand, typewriting etc. of all these skills, shorthand happens to the most important and most challenging of all. But in secretarial departments of most tertiary institutions, most students believed that secretaries no longer write shorthand in business offices with the invention and installatio […]
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The degree to which shorthand is used in offices has been of serious concern both to students and tutors in secretarial studies. This study investigated the extent to which secretaries make use of shorthand in their day-to-day office work, whether the extent of usage is proportionate to the effort put in learning the skill and whether employers who want secretaries regard shorthand skill as job requirements. In order to arrive at a c c […]
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The purpose of this project is to study the public and private schools student performance in shorthand in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu state. In eight selected schools in Enugu Educational Zone. The following schools were studied public schools i. Command Secondary school Enugu ii. Girl’s High school Awkunanaw, Enugu iii. Idaw River Girl’s secondary school, Enugu iv. Union secondary school, Awkunanaw Enugu PRIVATE SCHOOL […]
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The purpose of this study is to draw a comparison of public and private schools students performance in shorthand in Enugu matroplist in Eight selected schools in Enugu Education zone, Enugu state, Nigeria, the following schools were studied. Public schools Idaw river girls secondary school, Enugu Army day secondary schools Enugu Girls high school, awkunanaw Enugu Union secondary school, Awkunanaw Enugu Private schools Immaculate comme […]
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The study aim at getting both learners and teachers of shorthand to identify the problems and difficulties which they encounter in their learning and teaching of shorthand. The subject were 255 students and shorthand lecturers made up of 155 shorthand students and shorthand lecturers from Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Enugu and 100 shorthand students and shorthand lecturers from Federal Polytechnic Idah (FPI). One set of […]
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The study is aimed at finding a survey of the factors responsible for students poor performance in shorthand in polytechnics in Enugu. In search of the required information, the researcher administered questionnaires to 100 respondents that made up the population for this study. The information gathered were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentage. A number of factors were identified to be responsible for mass failure […]