Category: Legal Transcription

  • Double Dashes in Legal Transcriptions

    Double Dashes in Legal Transcriptions

    Legal transcriptions generally avoid em dashes and ellipses, instead relying on double dashes, sometimes referred to as reporter’s dashes. space dash dash space– Double dashes are used to avoid excessive commas, particularly in the case of verbatim transcripts where every word (or nearly every word) needs to be preserved. The goal is to improve readability…