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Speed Writing Skills

This workshop is suitable for

All YSJ staff

Course aim

This 1 day course will provide participants with Speedwriting skills which can be used when writing up study notes, making notes at meetings, seminars and group discussions.

Course Outline

  • What is Speedwriting
  • Speedwriting principles – Alphabetical and Positional techniques
  • Explanation and description of word group categories
  • Short form structure
  • Common prefixes – how to abbreviate
  • Common suffixes – how to abbreviate
  • Compound words – how to identify and abbreviate
  • Word families – how to quickly increase speedwriting vocabulary

What previous participants have said about this course

 " Excellent workshop that is well worth the time to attend. I would highly recommend this to my colleagues"

"Good advice on the tricks of speedwriting"

"Very useful content. Well delivered"

"Enjoyed all of the course and will be very useful within my work. Everything was explained very clearly"

Booking

To book a place on a workshop please use our Online Booking Form.

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