A study to determine the effect of the early introduction of typewritten transcription on achievement in beginning shorthand

Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20)The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the early introduction of typewritten transcription on achievement in beginning shorthand. The hypothesis to be tested was that the early introduction of typewritten transcription in beginning shorthand has no effect on the development of reading rates, dictation speeds, transcription speeds, mailable letters, and theory knowledge. Nine matched pairs were selected from two beginning shorthand classes at Elk Grove High School, Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The pairs were matched on the basis of grade point average and beginning typing speeds. Both classes were taught in exactly the same manner except that during the first semester the experimental group was given instruction in typewritten transcription. During this time the control group did longhand transcription. During the second semester both classes were taught in exactly the same manner. At the end of the first semester of instruction the matched pairs were compared on the basis of their reading rate scores. At the end of the first year the matched pairs were compared on the basis of the total number of errors made on all theory tests given, the average of the five highest transcription rates, the average of the five best mailable letter grades, and the average of the two best dictation speeds achieved. The findings of the study showed that 1) there was no significant difference on the reading rates achieved at the end of one semester of instruction by the two groups; 2) there was no significant difference on the dictation speeds achieved at the end of one year of instruction by the two groups; 3) there was no significant difference on the mailable letter averages achieved at the end of one year of instruction by the two groups; 4) there was a significant difference on the theory test scores achieved at the end of one year of instruction by the two groups and this difference favored the control group; 5) there was no significant difference on the transcription rates achieved at the end of one year of instruction by the two groups. On the basis of the findings of this study the hypothesis cannot be rejected.M.S. (Master of Science

Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl

Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897). Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Boston: Published for the author, 1861 First edition E444 J17 A3 186

Incidents in the life of a slave girl. [electronic resource]/

By Mrs. Harriet Jacobs. cf. Cushing, Initials and pseudonyms.Prefaced signed: Linda Brent.Electronic text and image data.Mode of access: Internet

Incidents in the life of a slave girl.

Mode of access: Internet

Incidents in the life of a slave girl.: Written by herself. Edited by L. Maria Child.

1 p. l., 5-306 p ; 20 cm.Prefaced signed: Linda Brent.By Mrs. Harriet Jacobs. cf. Cushing, Initials and pseudonyms.Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Digital Library Initiatives, 1996. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. [Making of America] This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Touching liberty: abolition, feminism, and the politics of the body

In this striking study of the pre-Civil War literary imagination, Karen Sánchez-Eppler charts how bodily difference came to be recognized as a central problem for both political and literary expression. Her readings of sentimental anti-slavery fiction, slave narratives, and the lyric poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson demonstrate how these texts participated in producing a new model of personhood, one in which the racially distinct and physically constrained slave body converged with the sexually distinct and domestically circumscribed female body.Moving from the public domain of abolitionist politics to the privacy of lyric poetry, Sánchez-Eppler argues that attention to the physical body blurs the boundaries between public and private. Drawing analogies between black and female bodies, feminist-abolitionists use the public sphere of anti-slavery politics to write about sexual desires and anxieties they cannot voice directly.Sánchez-Eppler warns against exaggerating the positive links between literature and politics, however. She finds that the relationships between feminism and abolitionism reveal patterns of exploitation, appropriation, and displacement of the black body that acknowledge the difficulties in embracing "difference," in the nineteenth century as in the twentieth. Her insightful examination of issues that continue to be relevant today will make a distinctive mark on American literary and cultural studies