Become perfectly familiar with one lesson before another is attempted.

A careful revision each day of the exercises written on the previous one will prove an invaluable aid to the memory.

It is only by repetition that you will obtain a complete familiarity with new exercises, therefore do not fail to write every new word or sign at least a dozen times before writing the exercise as a whole.

For every hour spent in writing phonography spend a similar one in reading and rereading. This time will be well spent, while a noncompliance with this suggestion may cause infinite trouble in the student's early attempts at reporting.

While practicing the exercises of any lesson, students should form the outlines both carefully and slowly, paying particular attention to the proper formation of shorthand characters, both regarding length and curvature. Careful practicing while learning will bring speed far more quickly than carelessly written exercises, besides bringing with such speed that without which speed is useless-legibility.