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| Scoping Training for Court Reporters |
If you are a recently graduated court reporter and you feel you need additional training on punctuation, formatting and you'd like to learn your CAT program more efficiently, then Scoping Made Affordable (SMA) may be exactly what you need. SMA has been training scopists for over two years and the graduates are doing a great job. What are some of the ways that SMA can help you? 1. How to transfer files. 2. Learn and practice with punctuation according to the Lillian Morson's English Guide for Court Reporters and other reference tools. 3. Learning the difference between colloquy and bylines and how to transition between the two. 4. How to use the editing features of your CAT program in a concise, efficient manner. SMA is the only entity that has actually put four of the major CAT programs side by side with their editing features to learn by and for comparison. Check out the CR Refresher Course which is located here to see if this training program will help you become a court reporter who is proud to turn in your work. For information about the entire scoping training program, follow the links on the left. Feel free to contact SMA here for additional information. © July 10, 2009, All Rights Reserved |
| How SMA helps Court Reporting Students and Graduates I feel I am growing as I complete these assignments and get your feedback. I feel soooo much more comfortable with scoping, whether it’s my work or someone else’s. Teresa Ferguson, FPR |
"SMA has provided me with lots of shortcuts and things I can implement into the editing process." "The training you provide specific to punctuating and formatting a court transcript, as well as the hands-on practice and detailed feedback you provide for the editing of the transcripts and the tips and shortcuts for using the CAT software most efficiently is where your program is most beneficial to someone with my background." - Tara Cruz, 10/27/10, former court reporter student who is learning scoping now. |
| Let's put your formatting skills to the test to see if you have received enough training and can confidently answer these questions. How will you punctuation the following? 1. Q. Will you please state your name for the record 2. Explain the difference between colloquy and Q & A: 3. What is the formatting term for action in the proceeding? 4. Where do you turn to when you have transcript formatting questions and they are not in your textbooks? 5. Can you find the the error in this question? Follow this link to find the answers. |
| How Training for Court Reporters has Changed over the Past 10 Years In my opinion, the education of stenographers has changed over the years because of the great need for closed captioning professionals. In talking to some students who were in court reporting school, they felt that the punctuation and transcript formatting training has been reduced to a minimum in this field. Some students even left their training program because of this. Because of those aspects of training were not included, scopists have had to pick up the additional editing training. If the court reporting graduate did not receiving any training in punctuation and formatting transcripts, then that responsibility has fallen into the scopists' lap. In my opinion, scopists already have enough work to do. ;) The NCRA also is aware of how challenging it is for stenographers to build their speed up in order to pass the required examinations. Interestingly enough, the latest studies to enhance the training process left the NCRA a bit empty-handed. This is a link to the: The Status of Reporter Education: Trends and Analysis. This article was written in 2003 by the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) based on a survey they had court reporters filled out in 2002. I simply found this information to be very interesting because it supported the conclusions I had already discovered in working in the field for five years. |
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