Foreward by Gigatron

With the development of the realtime text entry software, court reporting schools began to investigate the opportunities that could be awarded to their court reporting students to "earn and learn." Some of the leading court reporting programs have already decided to completely revamp their curriculum and embrace this new technology into their current program and are now looking into viable alternative career options for their students. Court reporting educators are looking at their beginning machine shorthand students in a new light. They are realizing that these students can begin to find employment using their shorthand machine as the input device for text entry at speeds ranging from 80 wpm to 120 wpm.

Students are able to earn money while continuing their court reporting training. The jobs they are taking will help them to complete their court reporting education faster because they are "on their machine" every day working as well as going to school. For those students who are unable to complete their court reporting education, the school is now able to offer them viable alternative career options and students no longer feel the frustration when they cannot reach the RPR speeds of 225, 200 and 180.

"Earn and learn" can be summarized as students using their developing reporting skills to do work for Corporate America, allowing them to increase their speed while also supplementing their income.