Reporter’s Preference Sheet

Reporter’s Preference Sheet

(Required fields in orange) 
Full name:
 
Email Address:
 
Street Address:
 
City:
 
State:
 
Zip:
CAT System:
Type of reporter: Freelance Official
  
Home Phone:
 
Work Phone:
 
Cell Phone:
 
Fax:
Turnaround time expected:
Type of scan mark/flag preferred:

Spell out: one through nine ~ or ~   one through ten

Check those that apply:

– Uses backup tape

– Clean up lawyers

– Clean up judge

– Leave in "strike that"

– New paragraph after "strike that"

– Comma between month and year (June, 2002)

– Comma after year (May 1, 1993, letter)

– Semicolon before "is that correct," "do you recall"

– Comma before "right," "correct"

– Space before and after double dashes

– Uses Ellipses

– Uses "keep together" or "sticky space" on Mr./Mrs./Ms./No./Dr., etc.

– Uses "(Indicating)"

– Uses direct quotation marks only when reading

– Use quotation marks when speaker says "quote/unquote"

– Reporter will provide include files

Spell out words in: CAPS ~ or ~ lower case       W-I-T-H dashes ~ or ~without dashes

Use slash (3/3/03) ~ or ~ dash (3-3-03) in dates

After colloquy, give example of speaker reidentification:

BY MR. JONES:
 Q.     Blah, blah, blah

 Q.     (By Mr. Jones)  Blah, blah, blah

 Q.    None  

MISC. PREFERENCES:

A.   My question is, why did you do that?
      My question is: Why did you do that?
      My question is why did you do that?

B.   It was about nine and a half miles away.
      It was about nine and-a-half miles away.
      It was about nine-and-a-half miles away.

C.   (If witness says, “I got home at six.”)

      I got home at six.
      I got home at 6:00

D.   (If witness says, “I got home at six o’clock.”)
      I got home at 6:00.
      I got home at 6 o’clock.
      I got home at 6:00 o’clock.
      I got home at six o’clock.

Tab settings:

Q/A first line tab: Q/A indent:

Q/A New paragraph/same speaker tab:

Colloquy first line tab:

Colloquy indent:

Colloquy new paragraph/same speaker tab:

Other punctuation preferences:

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