Transcribe Initials Document For Free

Type what you see and follow the order and layout as best you can. Type words exactly as they are written in the document. This includes capitalization, abbreviations, names, dates, and even misspelled words.

Strikethrough indicates the physical deletion of text in a witness. Deletion may be by any method (underlining, punctum delens, erasure, overwriting, etc).

To make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material). to make an exact copy of (a document, text, etc.).

There is no need to use caret symbols or brackets to indicate an inserted word. See example page. Deleted words or words struck out in the original text---Please write "strikethrough" or "crossed-out," when appropriate, in double brackets before and after the word or phrase that has been struck out or deleted.

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Later additions are added in square brackets with the note [inserted: and the word(s)]. Text that has been crossed out but can still be read is added as [struck: and the word(s)]. Text that has been crossed out and cannot be read is noted with [strikeout].

Italics in square brackets are used to spell out a word that is either abbreviated and illegible or missing in the document if the transcribers are certain of the intention. Three ellipsis dots in square brackets indicate illegible and unknown words or letters.

OVERLAPPED SPEECH: Overlapped speech (when both speakers talk at the same time) is marked with an ASTERISK ?*? at the beginning and at the end of each speaker's overlapped utterance. For example: <.362> <<speaker 1>> hello, how *are you*? <.118> <<speaker 2>> *I am fine* and you?