Not many people have heard of a scopist, yet so many people depend on the work they do. Scopists are the unseen, unheard, unknown freelancers working behind the scenes to produce final, polished transcripts of legal testimony taken down by…
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…
Earning money at home is an ideal situation for many people, especially retirees. When you retire, you may need - or just want - to earn some money to supplement your retirement income but you probably don’t want to relive…
(UPDATED AUGUST 31, 2020) Linda Evenson is the founder of a very successful scopist training course called Internet Scoping School. She freelanced as a scopist full time for 20 years before deciding to teach others how to earn money in…
The documents scopists prepare can carry a lot of weight in a court of law. And the bread and butter of a scopist’s legal work is the deposition. If you’re new to court reporting or to the legal world in…
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,…
It's very important if you're a freelance scopist or transcriptionist that you use the best headphones and foot pedals for scopists and transcriptionists. In this post you will find the most popular headphones and foot pedals used by scopists and…
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…
(UPDATED 1/20/20) Learning how to become a scopist can be easy. It also can be difficult. And it can be in between. How quickly you’ll be able to learn depends on your innate abilities, the effort you put into learning,…
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…