A rough ASCII, uncertified rough draft, uncertified unedited rough draft, realtime unedited rough draft, uncertified copy, or simply RASCII ( ) is the
rough draft version of a
transcript created by a
court reporter
A court reporter, court stenographer, or shorthand reporter is a person whose occupation is to capture the live testimony in proceedings using a stenographic machine or a stenomask, thereby transforming the proceedings into an official certif ...
, usually of a
legal proceeding
Legal proceeding is an activity that seeks to invoke the power of a tribunal in order to enforce a law. Although the term may be defined more broadly or more narrowly as circumstances require, it has been noted that " e term ''legal proceedings ...
.
It may have spelling errors as it has not yet been finalized. Once the transcript has been finalized and certified by the
court reporter
A court reporter, court stenographer, or shorthand reporter is a person whose occupation is to capture the live testimony in proceedings using a stenographic machine or a stenomask, thereby transforming the proceedings into an official certif ...
, the RASCII is then transformed into a so called "
ASCII
ASCII ( ), an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English language focused) printable character, printable and 33 control character, control c ...
" (
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII ( ), an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English language focused) printable and 33 control characters a total of 128 code points. ...
).
A
court reporter
A court reporter, court stenographer, or shorthand reporter is a person whose occupation is to capture the live testimony in proceedings using a stenographic machine or a stenomask, thereby transforming the proceedings into an official certif ...
transcribes spoken or recorded speech into written form, using machine
shorthand
Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to Cursive, longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Gr ...
or
voice writing equipment to produce official transcripts of court hearings, depositions and other official proceedings. If requested, the
court reporter
A court reporter, court stenographer, or shorthand reporter is a person whose occupation is to capture the live testimony in proceedings using a stenographic machine or a stenomask, thereby transforming the proceedings into an official certif ...
will go on to
proofread and finalize the transcript before certifying it. Frequently a "Rough" copy will be requested to review before the final copy is created.
See also
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Draft document
Drafting is the process by which preliminary forms of a written work are composed. Separate from other steps of the writing process, such as Revision (writing), revision and editing, drafting involves the initial creation of the main content, ...
*
Manuscript (publishing)
A manuscript is the work that an author submits to a publisher, editor, or producer for publication. Especially in academic publishing, ''manuscript'' can also refer to an accepted document, reviewed but not yet in a final format, distributed in ...
References
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Court reporting
ASCII
Writing systems introduced in 1950