Gift Guide for Scopists 2020
If you're one of the few people in the world who knows what a scopist is, you'll probably be super surprised to hear that you can actually buy special scopist gifts for the handful of intrepid people who freelance in…
Internet Scoping School – Scopist Training for 2021
(UPDATED DECEMBER 23, 2020) Want to learn how to make money from home as a scopist? The founder of Internet Scoping School, Linda Evenson, will tell you how in this interview. Linda freelanced as a scopist full time for 20…
Accuracy (and Inaccuracy) of Court Documents can Change Lives
The documents freelance scopists prepare can carry a lot of weight in a court of law. And the bread and butter of a freelance scopist’s legal work is the deposition. If you’re new to court reporting or to the legal…
BeST Scoping Techniques Online Course – Interview with Teacher Judy Rakocinski
Working online sometimes means studying online first in order to learn how to perform your future online job. BeST Scoping Techniques offers an online course in which you can study scoping. The owners of BeST, Cathy Knox and Judy Rakocinski,…
What is a Scopist for Court Reporters?
Almost no one has heard the word scopist. Spell checks don’t recognize it, autofills think you want to type science, scoop or socialist, and if you mention the word scopist to someone, they’ll probably say "what's a scopist?" You are…
10 Things Scopists Want Court Reporters to Know
A lot of court reporters turn over a lot of transcripts to scopists. This is a good thing. It gives the court reporters more time to earn more money making more transcripts of testimony at legal proceedings which they can…
Freelance Life as a Scopist – What to Expect
Life as a freelancer is a bit of a mystery to most people who are not freelancers. Delving into the unexpected can be scary, and that fear can really put people off of thinking seriously about moving from traditional employment…
6 Important Communication Skills for Scopists
Sometimes things that are very important can also be very difficult. Getting up when your alarm sounds is difficult. Organic chemistry formulas - AgOCN(aq) + NH4Cl(aq) ---->AgCl(s) + NH4OCN(aq) - are very difficult. Communication skills can be not only difficult but…
Traveling the World as a Scopist
Danielle Cady is a 32-year-old Californian who began traveling and living abroad when she was 20. She's traveled in Spain, Greece and Iceland, to name a few countries. She's lived in South Korea and London, England, and she's moving to…
Travel While Working Online as a Scopist
So many people want to travel but have no money. To solve this problem, a lot of people are starting to travel while working online at the same time. However, most people do not know this is an option. Those…