Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...

The use of English shorthand and typewriters expanded towards the end of the 19th century in clerical work in the major cities of the subcontinent. The use of shorthand in Indian languages, however, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In this nightmare, I am in an exam hall in southern Poland competing with professional speed-writers working in 11 ...

NEW YORK – It’s nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in. The ...