Ettinger, Blanche : Bronx Community College of the City University of New York;

Perfetto, Edda : Nanuet High School

This text is the most up-to-date textbook available that provides integrated instruction in transcription and language arts, including extensive instruction in English usage and grammar. Each grammar skill is immediately applied in the tape transcription exercises and reinforced as the skill is built throughout the text. Enough English grammar is included in this text to replace the business English text in a transcription course. The text features foundations of transcription and grammar at the beginning of the text, preceded by the study of separate career fields. Instruction in this text includes:

• Real world drills and exercises, including content clustered into different job simulations.
• Language skills, including document formatting, editing, proofreading and listening.
• Preparation of industry-specific documents for transcription

1. An Introduction to Transcription : The Process.
2. An Introduction to Transcription : Agreement Principles.
3. An Introduction to Transcription : Agreement Problems.
4. Hotel Services and Recreation.
5. Media and Entertainment.

   Progress Check 1. Gauging Transcription Power.

6. Banking.
7. Insurance.
8. Global Manufacturing
9. Travel and Tourism.
10. Electronic Publishing.

    Progress Check 2.

11. Real Estate and Property Management.
12. Computers.
13. Human Resource Management.
14. Electronic Communications.
15. Advertising and Marketing.

    Progress Check 3.

16. Health Services.
17. Retail Management and Entrepreneurship.
18. Investments.
19. Government Services.
20. Legal Services.

    Progress Check 4. Gauging Transcription Power.

Appendices

1. Textbook Self-check.
2. Models of Documents.
3. Summary of Rules of Punctuation, Capitalization, Numbers, Abbreviations and Grammar.
4. Two-letter State Abbreviations.
5. Proofreaders' Marks.
6. Word-division Rules.
7. Spelling and Vocabulary Rules.