Briefs/Dictionary Building

Interested in learning new briefs that will make your life easier?  Interested in building your dictionary?  MtCRA asked its members these questions at the 2014 convention, and many of the members answered YES.  Below are some lists to help get you started. (It’s not much now, but our goal is to continuously add to the list.   If anyone has a list to contribute, please send feel free to submit  the list to MTreporters@gmail.com.)

 

Briefs

QA extensions	Chemistry	Computers Jury Charge
Courtroom Terms	Disabilities Report-Agreement-Video	Drugs
Geography Court – 1	Greek Alphabet	Holidays
Language	Mathematics	Miscellaneous Terms
Prefixes	States

Word Lists to Build Your Dictionary

Montana Counties, plus!!

1000 words

 

 

Grammar Rules

CAPITALIZATION – CITY AND STATE	COLON – INTRODUCTIONS	COMMAS – COORDINATE ADJECTIVES
COMMAS – NONESSENTIAL WORDS & PHRASES	COMMONLY BUTCHERED IDIOMS	HYPHENS – LIKE & WISE ENDINGS
NUMBERS – No. vs. Number	NUMBERS – WITH NOUNS        PARAGRAPHING	PLURALS AND POSSESSIVES

QUOTATION MARKS – COMMA BEFORE QUOTED MATERIAL by CMOS	QUOTATION MARKS – QUOTE UNQUOTE	SEMICOLONS
SIC RULES	TASER	TASER2

 

(*Special thanks to fellow court reporters Jeanese Johnson and Marla Sharp for providing us documents to help start our page.  For more briefs and/or information on punctuation, visit THE BRIEF EXCHANGE and PUNCTUATION FOR COURT REPORTERS on Facebook.  )