Category Archives: Theory

The basis for shorthand, theories are what we’re in school for

Practice routines

In case you were wondering, you should be practicing your speed right now. Stenograph.com is marketing a nice little device to constantly remind you that you as a court reporter you’ll always be under a clock. Tick tock tick tock . . . steno. While there isn’t any real correlation between this clock and practicing, [...]

Everything’s all right

In case you haven’t been following my court reporting saga, the latest news was that I had finally upgraded to a realtime machine for the rest of my studies. I got a Stentura 200SRT and caseCATalyst4. They worked great except for one problem—they wouldn’t work together. Oops. The realtime cable arrived yesterday and everything is [...]

Revolutionary Theories

Today I’ll be receiving my Stentura 200 SRT and caseCATalyst4 software. I expect to spend this chilly weekend working on my dictionary and breaking in my new writer. Also, now that I’ve moved up to 160 at school I need to have Scott record some new audio drills for this speed and a few steps [...]