and Court Reporting Schools
The Theory you Learn in Court Reporting School Don’t set yourself up for FAILURE by learning an outdated, stroke- intensive, or memory intensive theory.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 your court reporting school or online court reporting training program.
is the Most Important Component of Court Reporting
The prospective court reporting student should choose a court reporting school or online training program with a state-of-the-art, modern, realtime court reporting theory, preferably with a broadcast (closed) captioning foundation, as well as a court reporting foundation. Court Reporting Theory is learning how to write on the steno machine and is interrelated with the court reporting software that translates the court reporters steno notes (the notes the court reporters and captioners write...See Example at bottom of page) into English that everyone can read. Court Reporting Theory is the most important component of your court reporting and closed captioning training. Theories of the past, most of which are still taught today, literally can take a year or longer to learn. One new theory, the NCRA approved "Realtime Reporting and Captioning Theory" has revolutionized court reporting school theory training, and can be learned in as little as a few weeks, moving the court reporting student into speedbuilding more quickly which allows the court reporting student to COMPLETE HIS OR HER TRAINING MUCH FASTER.
This new, revolutionary, court reporting theory was developed by the preeminent court reporting and closed captioning educator
in the world today, and is changing the way court reporting and closed captioning is being taught. This method of self paced court reporting homestudy has enjoyed great success, and should be researched by anyone considering training for the careers of court reporting, broadcast closed captioning, or CART providing. For more informationCLICK HERE.
Basics of Theory and the Steno Machine
The following is a very simplified explanation of court reporting 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 court reporting 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 that have not kept abreast with the artificial intelligence found in computer aided transcription (CAT) software.
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