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The Theory you Learn in Court Reporting School
is the Most Important Component of your Training
Don’t set yourself up for FAILURE by learning an outdated, stroke- intensive, or memory intensive theory. Your success both in court reporting school and as a professional in the court reporting field will be directly related to the quality of the realtime theory you learn in court reporting school,or
closed captioning school.
Only one court reporting theory taught today, has both a court reporting as well as a closed captioning foundation built into it, which allows the student to learn court reporting and closed captioning simultaneoulsy. CLICK HERE for extensive information on this revolutionary, new, simplified, state of the art theory.
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If you're interested in a career in court reporting, closed captioning, also known as broadcast captioning, and/or CART providing, one of the most important considerations in deciding how you are going to train for these careers is choosing the theory you will learn. THEORY is the FOUNDATION OF YOUR TRAINING. Theory is the method students are taught to write on the steno machine, where all the keys are located on the steno machine.
Some letters of the alphabet print when the key is depressed, but other letters of the alphabet require depressing a combination of keys simultaneously to stand for a letter of the alphabet.
Some theories have shortcuts for writing words and phrases. These shortcuts are referred to in the industry as briefs, brief forms, or arbitraries. Although the steno machine does not have keys to print out punctuation, several keys are depressed simultaneously to indicate punctuation.
A solid foundation in realtime writing concepts is the basis promoted by the NCRA (National Court Reporters Association). To see a more detailed explanation of theory and how it relates to the stenograph machine CLICK HERE.
Basics of Theory and the Steno Machine
The following is a very simplified explanation of theory and the steno machine.
Most stenograph machines contain 22 keys and a number bar. A few of the steno machines today have an individual key for each number rather than a number bar. All letters of the alphabet are not on the keyboard, but all letters can be written by combining letters to stand for other letters. Examples of this would be PB to designate the ending sound of a word with the letter N as in TON = TOPB.
Also, there is no punctuation on the keyboard, but by simultaneously depressing the top row of keys on the right-hand side, the FPLT keys, we designate a period. By depressing the top row of keys on the left-hand side, STPH, we designate a question mark. Other punctuation is created in the same fashion by combining letters. Stenotype may be written phonetically, the way the word sounds, or as closely to the way the word is spelled as possible.
Can you read this?
The following is an example of how a court reporter’s paper notes might look and what the machine shorthand stands for.
Note:
PB = N
T by itself = the shortcut for the word THE
STPH = the punctuation question mark ?
PURSE is written phonetically PURS
STENO OUTLINE ENGLISH WORD
WH O WHO
S E PB T SENT
T THE
R E D RED
P U R S PURSE
T O TO
U
ST P H ?
Learning a modern, technologically advanced real time theory is critical to becoming a quality real time court reporter, broadcast closed captioner, and CART provider. One theory can be completed in literally weeks and allows you to enter speed building much faster than outdated theories that are stroke intensive and have not kept abreast with the artificial intelligence found in computer aided transcription (CAT) software.
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