Quickly Covering Quotes

Live with Margie Wakeman Wells

This is a LIVE course with Margie.

QUICKLY COVERING QUOTES (four hours – .4 CEUs)
You must attend all four hours live to earn CEUs.

All course times are Pacific Time.

Saturday, January 8, 9:00-10:30, 10:45-11:30

Sunday, January 9, 12:00-1:15, 1:30-2:00


This course will cover the rules for quotes: quoting from a document, when you have the document and when you don’t; what to do with foreign words and made-up words; reading prior testimony into the record; using the definition of a word; and other foibles of quotes.


Your Instructor


Margie Wakeman Wells
Margie Wakeman Wells

Margie Wakeman Wells is a lifetime credentialed teacher in the state of California and is certified as a CRI. She is in her sixth decade of teaching -- with 40 of those years in the field of court reporting. As a reporting instructor, she has taught from the theory level through the exit speeds as well as all manner of English courses – both on campus in a bricks and mortar school and online.

She has presented, under the auspices of NCRA and state court reporting organizations, over 300 seminars for reporters on English-related topics as well as seminars for teachers and students.

Court Reporting: Bad Grammar/Good Punctuation, her best-selling reference text, and the workbook that accompanies it are available at margieholdscourt.com. In addition, she has published Word Pares, Pears, Pairs, a reference work of 2,000 word pairs with definitions, examples, and idioms for the words, and is currently writing a grammar text. She has also written a drill book series for improving accuracy: Practice Really DOES Make Perfect.

Margie operates “Margie Holds Class,” her online school, for both live and recorded classes and writes her blog, “All Things English,” at margieholdscourt.com. Margie currently serves as the Education Liaison for the California Court Reporters Association.

Margie has two grown sons and lives with her husband, Bill, in Culver City, California.


Course Curriculum


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  The Course
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  Module 1: Comma Basics
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  Module 2: Carbon Paper Days
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  Module 3: The Paragraph
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  Module 4: Where to Put Punctuation
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  Module 5: Issues That Bring on Quotes
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  Module 6: Quotes Versus Hyphens
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  Module 7: Verbatim and Sic
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  Module 8: Define That Word
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  Module 9: Lead-in Words
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  Module 10: Documents
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  Module 11: Discourse
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  Module 12: Single Quotes
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