I’m going to reveal a secret used by transcriptionists which aids in typing faster and more accurately, and can save all of us that important element called Time.
At first glance, this may seem to be contrary to my previous advice about creating products by recording your material. Not true. It’s still better to create information products by recording and getting transcribed. Nevertheless, all of us do have other instances when we have to type something – an email, a note, a blog entry, taking notes at a meeting.
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In a recent interview, grammarian expert Laura Jarnat revealed five easy steps to get your audience to read what you write. Laura has been a speaker and trainer for 15 years and has a passion for grammar. In fact, she will tell you she reads the Great Reference Manual for fun. Follow Laura’s advice in these five easy steps and your audience will be more likely to read what you write.
1. Consider your reader’s time and focus on what they want. Write at a level that is optimum for your reader to undersand. The current standard, and has been for a few years, is to write at the 8th grade level. You may think that’s ridiculous and a reflection of the educaition system in our country today. Really, it has to do with a commodity called “time” that we have in short supply. Very simply, it takes time to read anything that’s written at greater than the 8th grade level. Read more
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Patsy Bellah.
Yesterday, I decided to do a current search on digital recorders and I learned some good news: We’re getting more and paying less. I did a search on Olympus and found that for the same amount we were paying a year ago, we are actually getting longer recording times.Â
Then I went to a couple of local sources for purchasing recorders and found out the same thing.It occurred to me that this is a new technology and that some of you may be a little wary of trying it. It’s kind of like going from the standard typewriter to the electric typewriter. It was new and we had a lot of new stuff to learn. Then again, when going from an electric typewriter to a computer. More new stuff to learn. And now along comes this new technology and there’s more stuff to learn.
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