She was an expert in several pen stenography systems as well as stenotype. Courtelyou then began teaching, later taking a stenography course and mastering shorthand. Waterman chiefly taught Pitman shorthand ("stenography"), which took him to Illinois and Virginia. The school advertised instruction in stenography, bookkeeping, business correspondence and "plain and ornamental penmanship". A trained operator uses keyboard or stenography methods to transcribe spoken speech into written text. Classes were offered in bookkeeping, mathematics, stenography, elocution, Spanish and gymnastics. Inmates also gained practical skills such as typing, stenography, stenciling, and use of Dictaphone. Using stenography (shorthand) methods, this rate increases greatly. There is also , used in several shorthand (stenography) systems. He transferred to a local business college and studied bookkeeping and stenography. A business course was added that included typing, stenography, and bookkeeping. In 1960, compulsory training for Hindi typing and stenography was started. Bep excelled at her courses in German, stenography and accounting. His father taught English and his mother taught stenography. Like French Duployan, Romanian stenography uses a large number of affix marks and word signs.