Court Reporting Research Paper
Court Reporting Throughout History
Court Reporting dates all the way back to 1600 B.C. Court Reporters still play an important part in society today, just as they did hundreds of years ago. They help with everything from correctly transcribing testimony to the closed captioning on television. Yet, court reporting is a job that requires lots of dedication, time, and money. The cost of court reporting school today for a three-year program cost about $16,381 with tuition and books. "It cost about $10,000 to get the required associates degree" (Marshall, Susan 1). That was around 17 years ago when she got her degree, which shows how the cost of schooling is going up. In this paper I will discuss the history of court reporting, the schooling required, the cost of starting up, and court reporting in the job force today. In The Culture of Stenography Timeline it says, "The father of stenography, Marcus Tullius Tiro, former slave of Cicero, developed a shorthand system for recording orations in the Roman Senate. His symbol, the ampersand (&), remains in use" (1). Stenography is the art of writing in shorthand, "shorthand is a method of writing rapidly, by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols for letters, words or phrases" (History of Shorthand 1). Stenography has been changed many times over the years with Marcus Tullius Tero being just one of the founders. Cuneiform was considered a type of shorthand and was used as far back as 1600 B.C. Shorthand was created for the purpose of making it easier to record anything said that may want to be referred to at a later date. "In 1588, Timothe Bright, "The Father of Modern Shorthand," published his first method of shorthand, employing 500 symbols. Elizabeth I granted him a royal patent" (Culture of Stenography Timeline 1). This was a huge amount of symbols compared to what we have today, but it was a vast improvement over having to write down every single word spoken. The fact that Queen Elizabeth
Court Reporting dates all the way back to 1600 B.C. Court Reporters still play an important part in society today, just as they did hundreds of years ago. They help with everything from correctly transcribing testimony to the closed captioning on television. Yet, court reporting is a job that requires lots of dedication, time, and money. The cost of court reporting school today for a three-year program cost about $16,381 with tuition and books. "It cost about $10,000 to get the required associates degree" (Marshall, Susan 1). That was around 17 years ago when she got her degree, which shows how the cost of schooling is going up. In this paper I will discuss the history of court reporting, the schooling required, the cost of starting up, and court reporting in the job force today. In The Culture of Stenography Timeline it says, "The father of stenography, Marcus Tullius Tiro, former slave of Cicero, developed a shorthand system for recording orations in the Roman Senate. His symbol, the ampersand (&), remains in use" (1). Stenography is the art of writing in shorthand, "shorthand is a method of writing rapidly, by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols for letters, words or phrases" (History of Shorthand 1). Stenography has been changed many times over the years with Marcus Tullius Tero being just one of the founders. Cuneiform was considered a type of shorthand and was used as far back as 1600 B.C. Shorthand was created for the purpose of making it easier to record anything said that may want to be referred to at a later date. "In 1588, Timothe Bright, "The Father of Modern Shorthand," published his first method of shorthand, employing 500 symbols. Elizabeth I granted him a royal patent" (Culture of Stenography Timeline 1). This was a huge amount of symbols compared to what we have today, but it was a vast improvement over having to write down every single word spoken. The fact that Queen Elizabeth
Cited: Atkinson-Baker Court Reporters. 1995 "Becoming a Court Reporter." 6 September 2007. http://www.depo.com.becr.htm Chu, Christine, etc. "Culture of Stenography Timeline." 31 January 2000. Transcriptions topics. 6 September 2007