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A court reporter, court stenographer, or shorthand reporter [1] is a person whose occupation is to capture the live testimony in proceedings using a stenographic machine or a stenomask, thereby transforming the proceedings into an official certified transcript by nature of their training, certification, and usually licensure.
Some court reporters use scopists to translate and edit their work. A scopist is a person who is trained in the phonetic writing system, English punctuation, and usually in legal formatting. They are especially helpful when court reporters are working so much that they do not have time to edit their own work.
Court reporters take down official proceedings using voice writing or stenography. Scopists receive the rough copies of these transcripts after the proceedings, check the transcript for missing words or mistakes, edit grammar and punctuation, ensure that proper names and technical or scientific terms are spelled correctly, and format the ...
Typist may also refer to: Data entry clerk, someone who types data into a database via a computer or terminal. Audio typist, someone who types letters, books and other documents using an audio source (e.g. dictaphone) Copy typist, someone who types letters, books and other documents using printed or handwritten sources.
Competitive typist Albert Tangora demonstrating his typing in 1938. Touch typing (also called blind typing, or touch keyboarding) is a style of typing.Although the phrase refers to typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys—specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory—the term is often used to refer to a specific form of touch ...
Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter.
Court Officer Francis J. Carroll: Sunday, May 6, 1973 Gunfire Court Officer Albert Gelb: Thursday, March 11, 1976 Gunfire Senior Court Clerk Alphonso B. Deal: Thursday, July 7, 1988 Gunfire Court Officer John A. Dauway: Sunday, October 1, 1989 Accidental Captain William Harry Thompson: Tuesday, September 11, 2001: Terrorist Attack
Court reporters' stenotype machines use chorded keyboards to enable them to enter text much faster by typing a syllable with each stroke instead of one letter at a time. The fastest typists (as of 2007) use a stenograph, a kind of chorded keyboard used by most court reporters and closed-caption reporters.