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A SURVEY OF THE CAUSES OF POOR

PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN

SHORTHAND IN DEPARTMENT OF

SECRETARIAL STUDIES, I.M.T, ENUGU.

 

 

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to identify the causes of Mass Failure of students in shorthand in the Department of Secretarial studies. I.M.T, Enugu.

In souring for the required information, questionnaires were administered to the students of the Department of Secretarial Studies and Business Education in addition to lecturers in these Departments.  Information gathered were analyzed in chapter four(4) of this project.

Most respondents including lecturers believe that shorthand is a difficult subject and that students fail the course massively in recent times. A number of factors were entified to be responsible for this mass failures.

 

 

CHAPTER ONE

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 by similar outlines strokes, outlines are differentiated by light and thick similar outlines.  The simplest outlines are used to represent single consonant outlines popularly known as short forms.

 

For students to make a headway in shorthand writing, they must observe the rules guiding shorthand writing known as linearly; facility and legibility outlines are written in three different positions: 1st place, 2nd place and 3rd place.  Also the usersin those days are professionally addressed as “stenographers” because their course is related to art, hence the suffix, shorthand writing is the core subject of the secretarial course, among which are typewriting and other clerical duties.  All these attribute to what is being referred to as oil in the hub that more the wheel.  No wonder why typewriting and shorthand has been made compulsory for the secretarial course.