Best Practices Guide
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AAERT publishes and offers for sale a Best Practices Guide, which covers a wide range of professional standards and is useful as . Candidates are not required to purchase or use the guide in order to qualify for or take the certification examination. PLEASE NOTE: As standards change and the profession evolves, some of the information in the guide may become outdated.
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Best Practices Guide-v2019
This guide covers a wide range of professional standards laid out by AAERT. Whether you are a reporter, transcriber, or both, we all share a professional goal: turning human communications (messy, “non-literary,” and disorganized, as they almost always are!) into a permanently accessible legal record. Our transcripts must present an undistorted, reliable reflection of proceedings, and at the same time be useful and helpful to our clients.
This 274-page manual costs $50 for Members and $75 Non-Members and is provided in PDF format. NOTE: After purchase the Best Practices Guide will be email to you within 2-3 business days.
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