Well, suffice it to say, I got derailed from my progress by a self-induced computer crisis. I’ll spare you the details, but it wasn’t pretty, and it took my husband many, many hours to fix the problem I created with one “click of the mouse” as it were.
This was followed by a series of tiny little projects…doctor’s appointments, dance lessons with my husband, dealing with a tenant who isn’t paying the rent in a rental house, holiday plan making, and much more.
One of the downfalls of the scopist training program is it is “work at your own pace.” At least when I was doing the MT training program, we had a syllabus with a list of work we had to get done each week, so while it was self-paced, there were still hard deadlines along the way. On the other hand, one of the upsides to the scopist training program is that it is “work at your own pace.” So, there is flexibility for those times when you get derailed causing delays.
So, before I bend my nose back to the grindstone, I wanted to let you know that the first section of the program is grammar. Since a court reporter and scopist produce the document in a verbatim capacity, perhaps it is more accurate to say the first section of the program is punctuation.
There are 32 “grammar” lessons. Each accessible PDF lesson is accessed via a webpage link. There is some reading, followed by some exercises which are self-corrected using a provided answer key, followed by an exam on the subject at hand (also self-corrected using an answer key.) Then, there is a focus question which is usually something fairly simple which involves emailing one of the instructors simply as a means to indicate where you are in the program.
The lessons are interesting and presented within the context of the court reporter/scopist application. I think I’m on lesson 4, so I need to get my butt in gear.
