4.6 Using transcripts
Once you have a transcript you can add notes to it or highlight features (see below) that will
help you in the controlled assessment. You are allowed to take your transcripts into the
controlled assessment with you.
Supportive speech hesitation noises/fillers
Example: Health and Safety simulation
D: Susan’s got a fact here
B: Yes
F: Yeah
B: Your legal advisor
A: It looks to me as though erm this equipment was brought in a long time ago and the
Management are not carrying out erm adequate safety checks regularly so it’s
E:
out
checks are carried
C:
and we have a safety officer
E:
C:
we have a safety officer
to look after those aspects
A: Yeah but Al. it it there’s no evidence of these checks are being carried out by the people
who are working on the (2)
C: But that is the job of the safety officer to maintain the standard (.) that everybody is
complying to the safety regulations (yeah) that’s what the officer’s job is
E: Right
B: But I () I’d like to say () like to ask the safety officer in the her view does she think that the
actual working well protective gear is adequate enough in these new days
F: It’s old isn’t it
G: Yes it was ten years ago
F: it it (inaudible) the safety standards but it’s only the breakers who actually know what the
equipment is like cause they’re wearing it I mean if they’re not comfortable wearing the
equipment to do their job then they can’t do their job properly and it’s not safe to you know go
on site.
4.7 4.7
Using transcripts – Further work
Example: Health and Safety simulation
Listen to the transcript using the audio file here, and read the words from the voice clip below.
D: Susan’s got a fact here
B: Yes
F: Yeah
B: Your legal advisor
A: It looks to me as though erm this equipment was brought in a long time ago and the
Management are not carrying out erm adequate safety checks regularly so it’s
E:
out
checks are carried
C:
and we have a safety officer
E:
C:
we have a safety officer
to look after those aspects
A: Yeah but Al. it it there’s no evidence of these checks are being carried out by the people
who are working on the (2)
C: But that is the job of the safety officer to maintain the standard (.) that everybody is
complying to the safety regulations (yeah) that’s what the officer’s job is
E: Right
B: But I () I’d like to say () like to ask the safety officer in the her view does she think that the
actual working well protective gear is adequate enough in these new days
F: It’s old isn’t it
G: Yes it was ten years ago
F: it it (inaudible) the safety standards but it’s only the breakers who actually know what the
equipment is like cause they’re wearing it I mean if they’re not comfortable wearing the
equipment to do their job then they can’t do their job properly and it’s not safe to you know go
on site.
See if you agree with its accuracy, then add:
1
Pauses Between the brackets:
● (.) for a pause of less than half a second
● (1) for a one-second pause
● (2) for a two-second pause, etc.
2
Added emphasis or stress
● for a word said more loudly, underline
3
Other sounds These can be shown in brackets (laughter)
It’s also useful to number the lines (usually 5, 10, 15, etc.) to make them easier to refer to.
Sentences are not usually indicated in transcripts, so no full stops or capital letters are used.