| Scoping Made Affordable (SMA) |
| Scoping Intern Program (SIP) |
Scoping Made Affordable is the only scoping training program that is providing a Scoping Intern Program (SIP). Participants of the SIP will feel as if someone is walking right beside them while they build their confidence in editing transcripts and into their first real jobs. Many new scopists were literally asking for this back in 2009. Current Schedule: Another cycle begins in February and will be completed at the beginning of April of 2012. (Because all of the classes are recorded, you may begin the SIP whenever it works for you.) How does this work? This program begins with a quick assessment done by the SIP to determine both your strengths and the areas in which you have received adequate training and where you need additional training. Once that information has been obtained, SIP will provide you with additional training materials, classes in our virtual classroom (which have been an awesome tool to both learn by and network!!), and additional phone conversations to help you work through specific questions that need that guidance. Those questions could be from uploading and downloading files to learning the shortcuts on your CAT program to handling a challenging punctuation situation. A comment shared from a recent graduate through their program evaluation of their SIP training experience: Devon’s approach, presentation, and follow-up of the training material provides all the ingredients for a successful career in scoping with extraordinary support. If you have been visiting the New Scopist page of this website and seen the various scoping tips that are provided to continue to educate new scopists, you know you will continue to receive more of that great information to make you successful in the least amount of time. Because this requires a great deal of one-on-one instruction, this program will cost each participant $550. From the graduate evaluations of the SIP program, it will be the best investment you spend on your scoping career. SIP will guide you through all of the ins and outs of scoping. The SMA Staff are adept in working with Eclipse, Case CATalyst and will work with other programs also. In retrospect, even this price is too low for all of the information and guidance you receive from SIP. But because SIP recognizes each of its students needs an economic break, SIP provides this at the $550 rate along with the option to pay that amount over two or three months. SMA provides this program because of the number of requests it has received from recent graduates of other training programs and because of the overabundance of work!! The scoping field needs more quality-trained scopists ready to tackle the real stuff now!! Unfortunately, since some students have enrolled under false pretenses, SMA has had to instill the following policy: Since the SMA curriculum is copyright protected, any student sharing the curriculum with anyone will be immediately disenrolled. © July 10, 2009, All Rights Reserved |
| SIP Payment options Full Payment of $ 550 Split Payment Option $ 275 - 1st month $ 275 - 2nd month (Click the Order button only once each month to transmit the payment.) Three-month payment plan of $183 each month. (Click the Order button only once each month to transmit the payment.) |
To sign up for Scoping Intern Program, please fill out the registration form here. When you submit the form, it will return you here for you to submit your payment (s). All online payments provide you with the option of either credit card or PayPal. |
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Unfortunately, since some students have enrolled under false pretenses,SMA has had to instill the following policy: Since the SMA curriculum is copyright protected, any student sharing the curriculum with anyone will be grounds for immediate dismissal. © July 10, 2009, All Rights Reserved |
| Working Interns When a Joyful Scoping Lead comes in requesting a scopist, the reporter has the option to choose at that time whether to use an intern. The plan is to have the intern paid $ .60 per page while the SMA instructor will proofread your work and provide additional guidance, as needed. As Joyful Scoping, SMA and the Joyful Scoping Leads continues to establish great work connections with court reporters, we anticipate this program to evolve. On the other hand, when the SIP graduates, they have been astounded at how quickly they found a court reporter to work with and keep. Many new scopists are unable to keep a court reporter because they have not experienced adequate training for this very detailed job. If you decide to be a part of the working interns, you will be shown your mistakes and will be expected to go back and correct them. That is an important part of the learning process. Scoping interns will have to participate in the SIP program for at least one month and take the exam before they can graduate into the working internship. |
Comments from students: I wanted to let you know that that was a very informative conference call tonight. I have a much greater understanding of by-lines and colloquy now. It really never made any sense to me before. A student’s response and question: Thanks for sending this as I didn’t even know about some of this. Is this something that I need to know or worry about? Or is this something that I need to know a little bit about it, but don’t have to worry about using it for now? My response to the question: It's important to know these things because it is all a part of scoping. That is why it is important. We use this terminology and the various parentheticals on a daily basis in our scoping work. |
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| Regardless of what you've been told, if you have any kind of a hearing deficit or disability, scoping will not be a job that you can be successful with. |
| Monthly payments will incur a $20 late fee for each day a payment is late. |
| Did anyone provide you with this one-on-one experience? Wouldn't it be nice to have someone who would do that so that you could become a successful scopist sooner? In my learning and teaching experience, I've determined that having that experience is the key to success. It's as simple as that. If you decide that the year 2011 is going to be your year of success with your scoping business becoming firmly established, then you'll want to get signed up for the Scoping Intern Program (SIP) today or soon. Scoping Made Affordable (SMA) wants all scopists to succeed so that Joyful Leads will become the main resource court reporters rely on. |
SMA's Scoping Intern Program is the scoping training, and I believe it is the best training available. Not only is the it completion of the program. One of the support from other graduates and from Devon herself. The SIP also offers access to other SMA resources like job leads and a scopists' forum. J. Carpenter, Graduate, 2011 |
It's always nice to have someone look over your work. This way you can make your mistakes with the instructor rather than a reporter. ;) |
| Contextual Reading Exercise Read through this exercise and see if you can find 18 mistakes. The answer link is at the bottom of the exercise. box was supposed to be a slipment of watercolor sets — points and brushes – for the upcoming Spring Flowers art week. Instead, was what delivered was a box containing a two dozen loaded paintball guns. It is still unclear whether the mix-up is the fault of the paint warehouse or the shipping companion, but both of issued official apologies. Also hazy is how exactly the girls of St. Mary’s came to possses the weapons. Somehow, soon after recess on Monday, all twenty-four gums made it into the hands have students, most suspected to be third graders, though their identity have not been revealed. Using the guns to terrorize there teachers and administrators, the girls soon overtook the school, looking the principle and several “mean” teachers in a custodial closet and forking all other adults to remain the in cafeteria. For the most part the girls have been keeping themselves hidden. If one emerges from a hiding place she is covered in paint, her face hidden behind a banana, virtually possible to recognize. Answers |
| Here is the link for the first scoping discussion: http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/726701-editing-tips. Please follow this link to register for the discussion so we have some idea of how many scopists to expect. Wednesday, February 8th at 7 p.m. CST, will be for all scopists. |