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Title: THE USE OF APPLICATIONS AND HARDWARE DEVICES FOR THE WRITING OF MINUTES BY SECRETARIES IN GHANAIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Anthony Yaw Nyamful, Isaac Obeng-Amoako
Volume:2 Issue: 2
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1Anthony Yaw Nyamful, 2 Isaac Obeng-Amoako 1Senior Lecturer in Music Technology at Methodist University College Ghana. 2Assistant Registrar at Methodist University College Ghana
MLA 8 Nyamful, Anthony Yaw. "THE USE OF APPLICATIONS AND HARDWARE DEVICES FOR THE WRITING OF MINUTES BY SECRETARIES IN GHANAIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 2, no. 2, Feb. 2018, pp. 72-83, ijah.org/more2018.php?id=5. Accessed 2018. APA Nyamful, A. (2018, February). THE USE OF APPLICATIONS AND HARDWARE DEVICES FOR THE WRITING OF MINUTES BY SECRETARIES IN GHANAIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 2(2), 72-83. Retrieved from ijah.org/more2018.php?id=5 Chicago Nyamful, Anthony Yaw. "THE USE OF APPLICATIONS AND HARDWARE DEVICES FOR THE WRITING OF MINUTES BY SECRETARIES IN GHANAIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 2, no. 2 (February 2018), 72-83. Accessed , 2018. ijah.org/more2018.php?id=5.
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Keywords: Applications, Hardware devices, Writing of minutes, Tertiary institutions, Ghana
Abstract: Writing of minutes of meetings by some secretaries in many Ghanaian tertiary institutions is fraught with many challenges in terms of technology, styles, and arrangement. A lot of studies have been conducted on recording effective minutes of meetings for committees in secondary and tertiary education in Ghana; however, a research carried out by the writers of this paper revealed that almost all the studies were without the use of technology for the recording of minutes. The paper, therefore, seeks to examine the challenges of using modern technology in the area of audio and video devices in writing and transcribing effective minutes of a meeting of the committees in tertiary institutions in Ghana. There is a discussion on types of modern devices for the recording of minutes, types of audio and video recording and their formats, types of minutes, effective styles of recording minutes, and the safe custody of minutes in digital and manual format. A questionnaire, giving to a random selection of secretaries from some selected tertiary institutions in Ghana indicated that about ninety-five percent of the secretaries had none or little knowledge with regards to the use of technology for effective recording of minutes. Thus, secretaries who underwent some training with regards to the utilization of technology in taking minutes performed the job of recording minutes faster and more effectively than their counterparts without the utilization of technology.
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