The Perfect Texts to Build Speed
Students will benefit greatly from having copies of these dictation texts. They should check their transcribed notes against the master copy -- proofing is an extremely important aspect of producing an accurate transcript -- and they should have easy access to these texts and any audios available for home and lab practice.
Item #401: Speedbuilding for Court Reporting, Volume 1 (252 pages, orange, ISBN 0-938643-03-7)
Item #402: Speedbuilding for Court Reporting, Volume 2 (254 pages, light green, ISBN 0-938643-04-5)
- Highly recommended for all reporting and legal stenoscription students. Also useful for stenocaptioning students.
- Compiled from actual courtroom testimony.
- Each volume has 25 lessons for a total of 50 lessons and well over 500 pages of dictation. (This equals over 1,000 pages when converted to the 25 lines per page transcript format.)
- Each lesson consists of six parts:
- Warmup
- Vocabulary
- An Exercise Giving
- Proper Names
- Geographical Names
- Numbers, and
- Retention Sentences or Legal Item
- Literary
- Jury Charge
- Testimony
- Audios available.
- Speedbuilding 1 has 10 hours @ 120 to 210 wpm.
- Speedbuilding 2 has 9 hours @ 125 to 240 wpm.
Item #CD403: Audio CD (MP3 format) for Speedbuilding for Court Reporting, Volume 1 more info audios
Item #CD404: Audio CD (MP3 format) for Speedbuilding for Court Reporting, Volume 2 more info audios
Item #410: Medical Q&A, Student Edition (142 pages, red, ISBN 0-938643-24-X)
- Highly recommended for all reporting and legal and medical stenoscription students. Also useful for stenocaptioning students.
- Compiled from actual courtroom testimony.
- Each of the 40 lessons contains:
- Proper Names Preview List (for job dictionary practice);
- Medical Vocabulary Preview List; and
- Dictation Exercise (average length 800+ words).
- Over 26 medical subjects covered.
- Includes index of medical words covered in text.
Item #610: Medical Q&A, Teacher Edition (174 pages, red, ISBN 0-938643-25-8)
- Includes everything in the student edition plus the following:
- Recommended outlines (including some options) based on the realtime StenEd theory;
- Three additional dictation exercises for testing; and
- Summary of writing principles for medical words and summary of medical words covered.
- Includes index of medical words covered in text.
Item #420: Advanced Literary, Student Edition (163 pages, tan, ISBN 0-938643-30-4)
- Highly recommended for all reporting, stenocaptioning, stenoscription students.
- Includes material from the Congressional Record, news and environmental magazines, and teacher contributions.
- Contains 52 dictations plus 20 warm-up exercises.
- Contains vocabulary development and reinforcement of StenEd homonym and conflict resolution.
Item #620: Advanced Literary, Teacher Edition (188 pages, tan, ISBN 0-938643-52-5)
Includes all material in the student edition plus:
- 12 additional dictations for reinforcement and testing;
- Realtime StenEd outlines for vocabulary covered in the student text.
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Item #430: Calling All Brief Lovers: Drills for StenEd Brief Forms by Carol D. Williams, MCRI (156 pages, multicolored, ISBN 0-938643-76-2)
- Part One consists of narratives covering selected briefs from A through Z.
- Part Two includes practice drills featuring briefs from the Realtime StenEd Theory text with special emphasis on high frequency words.
- Part Three sorts additional briefs by common element and/or subject matter.
- Part Four introduces briefs & phrases often used in Q&A and jury charge.
- Part Five emphasizes additional briefs & phrases used in testimony.
- Lots of preview vocabulary lists featuring StenEd briefs & phrases throughout.
- Calling All Brief Lovers (Item #430) can be purchased separately or packaged with StenEd's Dictionary of Briefs & Phrases (Item #553). Package Item No. for both texts when purchased together is #435. See
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