SPIRELIGHT TRANSCRIPTION STYLE WORKSHEET
Original practice material | 17 October 2026
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PART 1: WRITE THE RULE BEFORE TRANSCRIBING
Exercise or authorised task label:
Guideline version/date:
Clean, full verbatim or another specified style:
Filler rule and example:
Accidental repetition rule and example:
Emphatic repetition rule and example:
False start and correction rule:
Contraction/informal speech rule:
Number and spelling format:
Speaker-label format:
Approved uncertainty notation:
Sound-event and language-change rules:
Time references required, if any:
Permitted tools, research and storage:
Question route for conflicting or missing instructions:

PART 2: ORIGINAL FICTIONAL EXERCISE
This is a written script, not an audio recording.
Raw spoken script:
"Um, I, I sent the blue folder on, on Thursday. No, Friday. It's for
Lina, not Lena."

Our convention for this exercise only:
- Full: preserve every scripted spoken word.
- Clean: remove "um" and immediate accidental word repetitions.
- Keep the Thursday/Friday correction, contractions and Lina/Lena distinction.
- Add only ordinary punctuation; do not summarise or rewrite the wording.

Your full version:

Your clean version:

Explain every deletion from your clean version:

PART 3: CHECK CONTEXT
A. "It looks like the smaller one."
Would removing "like" change what the words express? Why?

B. "It was very, very close."
Is this repetition potentially emphatic? What instruction would decide?

C. "Put it by the [unclear] door."
The placeholder describes unresolved speech; it is not an approved real-project
tag. What would you check before using the actual task's uncertainty convention?
Do not fill the gap by guessing from the earlier reference to a blue folder.

PART 4: REVIEW IN TWO PASSES
[ ] Compared with the supplied script, or listened against the text when audio
    was provided, for missing/wrong words and altered meaning.
[ ] Checked speaker attribution.
[ ] Applied the exercise's filler/repetition/correction rules consistently.
[ ] Kept meaningful words, emphasis and permitted contractions.
[ ] Used only approved uncertainty and sound-event conventions.
[ ] Checked numbers, punctuation, format and completeness.
[ ] Followed permitted tool/storage rules.
[ ] Labelled the attempt as independent or guided practice accurately.

Error pattern to practise next:
One change to the next attempt:

REFERENCE FOR PART 2 (read after your attempt)
Full:
"Um, I, I sent the blue folder on, on Thursday. No, Friday. It's for
Lina, not Lena."

Clean under our stated convention:
"I sent the blue folder on Thursday. No, Friday. It's for Lina, not Lena."

A result such as "I sent Lina the folder on Friday" is a summary and rearranges
the wording. A real project may use different correction rules; its written
guideline is the authority for that task.

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