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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO SUPERWRITE

Upon completion of this module, student should be able to:

1. What is Supewrite?
2. Describe the purpose of Supewrite.
3. Practice the handwriting for capital letter in Superwrite
4. Practice the handwriting for lowercase letter in Superwrite.
5. Discuss on silent letter in Superwrite handwriting.
6. Explain about the letter T
7. Differentiate between long and short vowels
8. Identify the abbreviation
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1.1. What is Supewrite?
1.2. Purpose of Supewrite.
1.3. Practice the handwriting for capital letter in Superwrite
1.4. Practice the handwriting for lowercase letter in Superwrite.
1.5. Silent letter in Superwrite handwriting.
1.6. Letter T
1.7. Long and short vowels
1.8. Abbreviation

Summary

References

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1.1 What is Superwrite

 An abbreviated writing system based primarily on long-hand and secondarily
phonetics.

 A quick, easy to learn writing system that is easy to write and read.
 Does not require memorizing a new alphabet or changing one’s normal

writing style.
 No special symbols
 Follows the principle of abbreviating from the longhand spelling.
 Long vowels are written to aid in legibility
 Short vowels within words are not written.
 Initial and final vowels are written.

E. g : phone is written

few is written

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1.2 Purpose of Superwrite

To assist business executive and students to increase their speed in making
legible notes

To supply a fast and legible note-taking system that can be learned quickly
for use in the office by information – processing personnel.

To give the entering, prospective, or returning administrative assistant the
ability to take notes from dictation and transcribe them in a usable form.

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1.3 Superwrite Handwriting Capital Letter Exercise

AB C D

EF G H

IJ KL

MN O P

QR S T

UV W X

YZ

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1.4 Superwrite Handwriting Lower Letter Exercise

ab c d

ef g h

ij k l

mn o p

qr s t

uv w x

yz

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a) What is Superwrite?
b) Describe the purpose of Supewrite.
c) Practice the handwriting for capital letter in Superwrite
d) Practice the handwriting for lowercase letter in Superwrite.

1.5 Principle of Construction

Silent Letter

 In order to write faster, in Superwrite you will not write silent letters.

 What letters are silent?
 In the word: day, the y is silent.
 In phone, ph has the sound of f and is written f. (See Figure 1.0)

No Read Silent Letter Spell Superwrite
i see e s-e
ii. aid
iii. save i a-d
iv. dough
v. easy e s-a-v
vi. fee
u, g, h d-o

a e-s-y

e f-e

COLLEGE MCS Figure 1.0 Example of Silent Letter

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No Read Silent Letter Spell Superwrite
vii. say
viii. feed y s-a
ix. pay
x. prize e f-e-d
xi. rice
xii. daisy y p-a
xiii. phone
xiv. day e p-r-i-z

e r-i-c

i d-a-s-y

p, h f-o-n

y d-a

Figure 1.0 Example of Silent Letter

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Application 1.0
Read and write each sentence in your own notebook.
Set 1.1

a) Your fee is low
b) Will you pay your fee?
c) Your fee is zero.
d) As you know, my fee is zero.
e) Your game is easy.

Set 1. 2

a) Is your pony old?
b) My nice pony is old.
c) He is fine
d) Will you see me?
e) As you know, he is lazy.

Set 1.3

a) As you say, your pay is low.
b) Save your pay.
c) Will you save your pay?
d) He will save your pay.
e) Is my name easy?
f) Your name is easy.

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The Letter T

 In order to speed your writing, do not cross t’s. Letter Superwrite
E.g eat
Letter Superwrite Letter Superwrite
t tea

No Read Spell Superwrite No Read Spell Superwrite
f-e-t
i. tea t-e iv. feet

ii. eat e-t v. treat t-r-e-t

iii. try t-r-y

Long Vowels

 We will consider long vowels one that is pronounced in a word similar to how
it is pronounced alone. (aeiou). See Figure 2.0.

 E.g:
i) a as in ate
ii) e as in eat and near
iii) i as in light
iv) o as in vote
v) u as in hue

Figure 2.0 Example of long vowels

 Besides, we will consider the u in rule, the y in try and the y in easy to be
long. See Figure 3.0.

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 E.g; i) u as in rule
ii) y as in try
iii) y as in easy

 Write long vowels sound. Spell Superwrite

No Read d-a-t

i. date

ii. feed f-e-d

iii. here h-e-r

iv. die d-i

v. roll r-o-l

vi. true t-r-u

vii. fly f-l-y

viii. lazy l-a-z-y

Figure 3.0 Example of other long vowels

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Application 2.0
Read and write each sentence in your own notebook.
Set 2.1

a) I can play our nice tune for you.
b) Our tune is easy.
c) Will you stay or will you go?
d) I might fly home
e) My age is 12; are you 12?
d) As I told you, he is 13.

Set 2. 2

a) As I told you, our tire is low.
b) Can you gauge our tire?
c) Will you try?
d) I can gauge your tire for you or you can gauge your own tire.
e) Are you right?
f) You are lazy.

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Different Long Vowels

 A letter is pronounced as different long vowels, write that long vowel.
 E.g; in the word freight, the e-i combination is pronounced a; we will write

f-r-a-t. See Figure 4.0.

No Read Spell Superwrite No Read Spell Superwrite

i. freight f-r-a-t iii. move m-u-v

ii. pool p-u-l iv. few f-u

Figure 4.0 Example of different long vowels

Short Vowels

a) Short Vowels in the Body of Word

 Do not write short vowels in the body of a word.
 In the word even, we should write e-v-n, omitting the e in the body the words.

See Figure 5.0

No Read Spell Superwrite No Read Spell Superwrite
i. even
e-v-n iv. correct c-r-c-t

ii. lesson l-s-n v. written r-t-n

iii. center c-n-t-r vi. cough c-f

Figure 5.0 Example of short vowels in the body of word

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b) Intial Short Vowel

 Write the vowels if the word begins with a short vowels sound.
 Eg; in the word add, the beginning short vowel a is written. See Figure 6.0

No Read Spell Superwrite No Read Spell Superwrite
i. add a-d v. ought o-t

ii. earn e-r-n vi us u-s

iii. if i-f vii. oven o-v-n

iv. object o-b-j-c-t viii. honor o-n-r

Figure 6.0 Example of initial short vowels

c) Final Short Vowel

 Write the vowels if a word ends in a short vowel sound.
 E.g; in the word data, the final short vowel a is written. See Figure 7.0

No Read Spell Superwrite No Rea Spell Superwrite

d

i. data d-a-t-a iii. saw s-a

ii. era e-r-a iv. law l-a

Figure 7.0 Example of final short vowels

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Application 3.0
Read and write each sentence in your own notebook.
Set 3.1

Have you gone to vote yet? He has gone. As you know, he will vote at our office. If
are at least 18, you can vote. Your age is 19; you ought to vote. Do you want me to
drive you to vote, or do you want to drive? Your vote is necessary. It is very late, you
can still vote. Will you vote for me?

Set 3. 2

Will you collect data for my survey? I will obtain data for you if it is necessary. I collect
data at our office, or you can collect it. Do you have enough data to do your job? No,
but he has enough data to do it. He will call you at your home at seven tonight. As told
you, he has done a very good job.

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1.6 Abbreviations

 There are several a numbers of words in English language for which there are
special abbreviations. See Figure 8.0

 In superwrite you will also use a number of special abbreviations.

NO WORDS ABBREVIATION NO WORDS ABBREVIATION

i. you, your vi. for

ii. will vii. has, have

iii. as, is viii. very

iv. are, our, or ix. at, it, to

v. can x. do

Figure 8.0 Abbreviations

e) Discuss on silent letter in Superwrite handwriting.
f) Explain about the letter T
g) Differentiate between long and short vowels
h) Identify the abbreviation

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO SUPERWRITE

 SuperWrite is an English shorthand system based largely on previous
shorthand systems and largely intended for people who need to increase
their writing speed without devoting months to learning more complicated
systems.

 It is a writing system, as it uses cursive forms of the letters of the spoken
alphabet to represent sounds.

A. James Lemaster (1998). SuperWrite: Alphabetic Writing System, Office
Professional. (1st Ed). United State America, Cengage Learning.

Eriqa. (2012). K4 Cursive Handwriting. Retrieved from:
www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com

Martin Herwings. (2004). Pronunciation Practice Activities: A Resource Book for
Teaching English Pronunciation. England, Cambridge University Press.

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