Foothill College Rudy Giulianis Corruption Town Hall Meeting Worksheet

Transcription Assignment

1) Use the video found at

2) Transcribe one and a half minutes of this clip, from where the counter starts at 1:00 until 2:30.

3) You may use the guidelines from

Chapter 18: Wray, A., K. Trott and A. Bloomer. 1988. “Transcribing Speech Orthographically” pp. 201-212.

This reading is found on Module 3 of the course website.

4) Make sure to include the speaker names, line numbers and any overlaps, latching, pauses in speech, and extraneous sounds like clapping etc. Provide a key with the symbols you use.

For example:

X = clapping

(.) = pauses

[ ] = overlapping speech, etc

5) Be careful in your alignment of speech as you transcribe, and remember that aligning things in brackets on top of each other means the speech is simultaneous. Before you print, you may need to convert your file into pdf to preserve the alignments you have created.

6) Do not be deceived by the fact that the assignment is to transcribe a minute and a half of speech. This will take you a long time to get it right!