With the mindset of first things first, what follows is a brief history of Court Reporting, as taken from www.bestfuture.com/history.htm. In the 4th century B.C., a freed slave, Marcus Tullius Tiro, used a system of shorthand to record the speeches of Cicero and other Roman orators and leaders.
Timothe Bright, who in 1588 published a shorthand treatise dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, devised the first system approaching fully phonetic writing.
The year 1750 saw the publication of the shorthand system of Thomas Gurney, the first official reporter of parliamentary debates in England.
Modern shorthand began with the introduction in 1913 of the stenotype machine. By pressing one or more keys at a time, reporters capture the sound of words in a phonetic code, with each line of characters usually representing one sound or syllable. Today these notes usually are printed on a narrow paper tape, or stored digitally, and simultaneously captured in computer format. Reporters were computerized starting more than 20 years ago - long before most of the court systems and attorneys they serve. With advances in technology, today's court reporters are information managers.
As an overview, students should expect to do college level work. You will learn a variety of subjects that are part of many different post-secondary schools - including civil and criminal law, grammar, legal and medical terminology, and computer technology.
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