| Teeline shorthand is an essential skill for all journalists.
The course at Westminster is based on the teeline system,
specially adapted by Vivien Saunders
to the needs of journalists (as opposed, for example, to secretaries
and clerical workers).
The
entire course can be downloaded from this page by clicking
on the following links:
Introduction
Unit
1
The
basics of writing and reading Teeline
The Teeline alphabet
Consonants B to M
Special outlines
Unit
2 – The basics (part 2)
Consonants N to Z
Digression - Blending letter F with other consonants
Special outlines
More about special outlines
Unit
3 – Teeline vowels
Full vowels
Vowel Indicators
Diphthong "ay"
Double vowels
Medial vowels
Special outlines
Distinguishing outlines
Unit
4 – Writing Teeline Notes
Punctuation
Corrections
Revision
Introduction to phrasing
Unit
5 – Suffixes (1)
Disjoined vowel indicators
Words ending in -ing
Other disjoined vowel indicator endings
Extension of disjoined vowel indicators
Words ending in -nce
Words ending in -nch
Unit
6 – Suffixes (2)
Common English suffixes
Words ending in -ment
Words ending in -ent or –ant
Words ending in -tion
Words ending in -tial
Further simple suffixes
Would/wood/ward/word
-ship ending
-self ending
Words ending in -ever
Unit
7 – Essential blends (1)
Double-length consonants
DR blend
TR blend
THR blend
LR blend
MR blend
WR blend
X blends
XR blend
RX blend
Further examples of X blends
NX blend
XN blend
EXC blend
Unit
8 – Essential blends (2)
The C blends
CM blend
CN blend
P blends
PL blend
PB blend
Unit
9 – The R Principle
How it works
Points to watch
Unit
10 – Common prefixes
Simple prefixes
Under -
Self-
Trans-
Over-
More prefixes
Enc-
Inc-
Ins-
After-
Auto-
Air-/arch-
Above-
Circum-
Ever-
Electric-/electro-
Magn-
Multi-
Nation-/non-
Semi-
Super-
Upper-
Unit
11 – Suffixes (3)
Disjoined full vowels
-able/-ability
-eble
-ible/-ibility
-oble/-ouble/-obility
-uble/-ubility
Adding extended endings
Abstract noun endings
-fulness
-lessness/-Iousness
-ality/-ility/-olity
-arity/-erity/-ority
-tivity
Scientific noun endings
-ology/-alogy
-graph
-gram
-path
Unit
12 – Miscellaneous blends
NTH blend
Using the B circle in blends
PB blend
MB and BM blends
Blending B with other letters
N blends
TN blend
DN blend
TRN and DRN blends
RN blend
NV blend
VN blend
WN and NW blends
Unit
13 – Medical Journalism
Prefixes
Suffixes
Special outlines
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