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About Court Reporting
Are you excited about learning? Do you love to read? Are you up for a challenge?
Realtime reporting is an exciting career in an industry that uses state-of-the-art technology. The skills you acquire at Prince Institute will open many doors in the career you ultimately choose. Realtime reporters are responsible for capturing the spoken word. Why is this important? By capturing the spoken word, reporters are the link to both history and current events. Many people rely on reporters to bring them exact accounts of events from a highly publicized trial to being responsible for captioning television and sporting events.
Realtime reporting is a profession that is in demand and growing throughout the world, and it cannot easily be replaced. There is no substitute for what shorthand machine skills can provide. Attempts at video and audio capturing have proven to be insufficient in many areas. Video and audio cannot compare to the verbatim capturing of the spoken word.
Where do you find realtime reporters?
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In depositions
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In meetings
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In the military
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At the Oscars
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In high school and college classrooms
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In Congress
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In a church service
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Behind the scenes captioning sports events, television programs, and events on the Word Wide Web
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And, of course, in the courtroom.
The scopist works side-by-side with the reporter editing and proofreading the realtime translation.
Training for these highly technical and demanding occupations requires two to four years of concentrated study. Graduates must be able to write 225 words per minute on the shorthand machine. In addition, he/she must have a solid foundation in English grammar and punctuation, medical terminology, legal terminology, current events, and a working knowledge of computers and computer software.
Are you excited about learning? Do you love to read? Are you "up for a challenge?" Make this career yours!
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