Computer Shorthand: Speed Building and Real-Time Transcription, 3/E
Carolee Freer, Cypress College

ISBN-10: 0130791121
ISBN-13: 9780130791122

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1996
Format: Paper; 432 pp
Published: 07/25/1995

Suggested retail price: $120.40
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For Court Reporting Shorthand Courses in Speedbuilding classes ranging from 100-160 wpm, or from 140-200 wpm.

  • Designed to be adapted to any machine shorthand theory, this universal workbook helps court reporting students develop speed, accuracy, and writing fluency. It will prepare them for the Certified Shorthand Reporter's Examination and the National Shorthand Reporter's Examination. The workbook's extensive drills and exercises help them become proficient machine shorthand writers who can take dictation accurately at a high rate of speed and who can transcribe efficiently either at the typewriter or on the computer.
  • The workbook is divided into fifty lessons covering Latin and French legal vocabulary, Congressional Record Material, Multiple-Voice Testimony, Jury Charge, and Special Tips for the Court Reporter.

  • adds real-time writing drills to prepare students to write real-time in the legal environment.
  • includes an Admonitious and Stipulations section to increase writing dexterity.
  • contains a Consonant Compounds writing section to stress different fingering combinations on the steno keyboard and to improve accuracy in writing.
  • introduces a universal learning format for students to develop and refine their machine shorthand vocabulary and at the same time improve their writing and transcribing skills.
  • provides experience in writing the most frequently occurring words in the English language.
  • gives special emphasis to drill work, numbers, letters, phrases, and writing dexterity, along with real-time writing proficiency.

    • provides preview words for each drill.

    • includes Student SelfChecks at the end of each lesson.

  • gives students an opportunity to hear and write actual two-voice and multiple-voice testimony using coding identifications for courtroom and deposition participants.

    • provides a series of tapes for vocabulary enrichment and speed building, dictated at speeds ranging from 120 to 160 words per minute.

  • considers specialized courtroom situations (the last 13 lessons) — such as expert testimony, conference in chambers, child's testimony, and medical testimony.
  • each lesson provides practice with:

    • several foreign words that are commonly used in the courtroom and that may also be found in legal and court-related documents (e.g., Latin and French words). The terms are divided syllabically.

    • Congressional Record material that challenges vocabulary and writing skills. The topics include a wide range of issues of importance dealing with today's political, social, and economic situation.

    • jury charge material.

    • opening and closing statements, arguments, expert opinion, deposition instructions, and legal opinion.

  • contains a section on Special Tips for the Court Reporter.

    • covers a variety of areas of reporting relating to transcript numbers, capitalization, abbreviations, and paragraphing.

    • provides drill and practice sentences for students to correct.

  • NEW—adds real-time writing drills to prepare students to write real-time in the legal environment.
  • NEW—includes an Admonitious and Stipulations section to increase writing dexterity.
  • NEW—contains a Consonant Compounds writing section to stress different fingering combinations on the steno keyboard and to improve accuracy in writing.



Lessons 1-50.

(NOTE: Each lesson includes Latin and French legal vocabulary, Congressional Record material, jury charge material, opening and closing statements, arguments, expert opinion, deposition instructions, and legal opinion).The first 37 lessons include a realistic selection of multiple-voice testimony; the last 13 lessons concentrate on specialized courtroom situations such as expert testimony, conference in chambers, child's testimony, and medical testimony.



Special Tips for the Court Reporter.


Courtroom Participants.


Examinations.


Parentheticals.


Utterances.


Case Citations.


Reporter's Worksheet/Cue Sheets/Information Sheets.


Numbers.


Abbreviations.


Capitalization.


Paragraphing.

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