| Scoping Made Affordable (SMA) |
| Scoping Intern Program (SIP) |
Scoping Made Affordable is the only scoping training program that is providing a Scoping Intern Program (SIP). Participants of the SIP will feel as if someone is walking right beside them while they build their confidence in editing transcripts and into their first real jobs. Many new scopists were literally asking for this. How does this work? This program begins with a quick assessment done by SIP to determine both your strengths and the areas in which you have received adequate training and where you need additional training. Once that information has been obtained, SIP will provide you with additional training materials, conference call discussions (which have been an awesome tool to both learn by and network!!), and additional phone conversations to help you work through specific questions that need that guidance. Those could be from uploading and downloading files to learning the shortcuts on your CAT program to handling a challenging punctuation situation. A comment shared from a recent graduate through their program evaluation of their SIP training experience: Devon’s approach, presentation, and follow-up of the training material provides all the ingredients for a successful career in scoping with extraordinary support. Because this requires a great deal of one-on-one instruction, this program will cost each participant $250. This price has recently been adjusted because of the incredible amount of information that is provided to the interns and the time spent with each one individually bringing them up to speed. (June '09) SIP will guide you over the phone through all of the ins and outs of scoping. I am adept in working with Eclipse, Case CATalyst and will work with other programs also. In retrospect, even this price is too low for all of the information and guidance you receive from SIP. But because SIP recognizes each of its students needs an economic break, SIP provides this at the $250 rate along with the option to pay that amount over two or three months. SMA is providing this program because of the number of requests it has received from recent graduates of other training programs and because of the overabundance of work!! The scoping field needs more quality trained scopists ready to tackle the real stuff soon!! |
| Full Payment of $ 250 |
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| Split Payment Option $ 125 - 1st month $ 125 - 2nd month (Click the Order button only once each month to transmit the payment.) |
| All online payments provide you the option of either credit card or PayPal. |
| To sign up for Scoping Intern Program, please go to the registration form here to fill out. When you submit the form, it will return you here for you to submit your payment (s). |
SIP includes:
months to complete. |
| Working Interns SMA is working on getting this program established. The plan is to have the intern paid $ .60 per page while the SMA instructor will proofread your work and provide additional guidance, as needed. If you decide to be a part of the working interns, you will be shown your mistakes and will be expected to go back and correct them. That is an important part of the learning process. Scoping interns will have to participate in the SIP program for at least one month and take the exam before they can graduate into the working internship. When court reporters fill out the Joyful Leads' form for scoping work, they are specifically asked whether an intern can do the work with the oversight of SMA/SIP. |
Comments from students: I wanted to let you know that that was a very informative conference call tonight. I have a much greater understanding of by-lines and colloquy now. It really never made any sense to me before. A student’s response and question: Thanks for sending this as I didn’t even know about some of this. Is this something that I need to know or worry about? Or is this something that I need to know a little bit about it, but don’t have to worry about using it for now? My response to the question: It's important to know these things because it is all a part of scoping. That is why it is important. We use this terminology and the various parentheticals on a daily basis in our scoping work. |
New scopists have quickly discovered how much faster they became a quality scopist by using the SIP rather than trying to do it on their own. |
| Regarding punctuation: Are you confused by how to use commas, dashes, quotation marks and even knowing when a statement is a question or a polite request? SIP will be happy to guide you through these issues that new scopists face and try to understand why court reporters may use punctuation a little differently than the standard rules. |
| We can accomplish great things when we work together!! |
| First Payment of three-month payment plan for SIP $90 |
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