Spanish-American Institute

205 Machine Transcription 30 Classes

Prerequisite(s): Keyboarding 201 or equivalent

Textbook: Machine Transcription, Blanche Ettinger, EMCParadigm, 1999 (or comparable text).

Course Description: While developing English language skills, this course teaches students to listen, to understand, and to transcribe English word/thought groups through simulated workplace tasks and materials

Objectives: By the end of the course, students should be able:

to better understand and correctly use English word division and composite words;
to understand and correctly use homonyms in the context of dication;
to correctly spell English words not spelled phonetically that typically cause difficulty;

to understand spoken and written directions in English when transcribing from English dictation;
to ask questions in English concerning concepts and implementation;
to read and understand English language descriptions of business situations that will determine the correct production of documents;
to produce letters from English language dictation and to identify and correct language errors made by the transcriber and the person dictating;
to transcribe 15 lines of English language letter copy in 10 minutes with fewer than 3 errors and to correct 15 50-space lines of copy containing errors in 10 minutes with no more than 1 mistake.

Instructional Methods: Classes include language development and theory sessions followed by hands-on practice and drills for speed and accuracy. Students will complete periodic summary exercises that require application of all skills learned to date. Each student will create a portfolio of finished output in mailable condition

Grading: The final grade is based on the following:

Class Participation	25%
Assignments	50%
Exams	25%
Total	100%

The grading scale is: A=90-100%, B+=85-89%, B=80-84%, C+=75-79%, C=70-74%, D=65-69%, F=60-64%.

Course Outline:

Week	Topics	Assignments and Tests
1	The transcription process, transcription agreement principles, and transcription agreement problems	chapters 1-3 readings, activities, and exercises
2	Hotel services and recreation and/or media and entertainment	chapters 4-5 selected readings, activities, and exercises progress check I
3	Banking, insurance, global manufacturing, travel and tourism, and/or electronic publishing	chapters 5-7 selected readings, activities, and exercise progress check II
4	Real estate property management, human resources management, electronic communications, and/or advertising and marketing	chapters 11, 13-15 selected readings, activities, and exercise progress check III
5	Health services, retaining and entrepreneurship, and/or investments	chapters 16-18 selected readings, activities, and exercise
6	Government services and legal services	chapters 19-20 selected readings, activities, and exercise progress check IV exam

rev. 2/04, 2/07