Amazon.com description: Product Description: This workbook has been designed to aid you in gaining skill in your shorthand study. As you complete the lessons in this workbook, you will reinforce your ability to write a comprehensive business vocabulary plus review and refine your transcription skills. This workbook has been divided into four units each consisting of 15 lessons each. Each unit has been introduced with an informational piece that will prove helpful to you in understanding the new role of shorthand in the modern office. In each of the first 30 lessons, you will have the opprotunity to concentrate on a specific set of transcription aids: punctuation, commonly confused words, and commonly misspelled words. These transcription aids also appear throught the text material for each lesson. Later lessons include these and other transcription aids. You will want to have a handbook available for additional references. As you begin the workbook, be sure to write the preview words correctly before attempting to write the practice masterial. If there are other words you are not sure of, be certain to look those up also so that your time spent will be productive in the learning of shorthand. Building a good shorthand skill results from writing shorthand outlines without hesitation thus, in your homework study, be certain that you are writing each word correctly.