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Since 1990 CRR Books & CDs has delivered extensive customized test prep materials and tutoring, coaching, for students, court reporters, captioners, CART providers and teachers accelerating skills, earning NCRA WKT and state certifications -plus - CATapult Your Dictionary offers students, court reporters and captioners interactive, realtime dictionary building CDs, which contain multiple free features. 

Are You A Captioner Preparing A Dictionary For The Olympics? See #3.

A great word-building program, especially when it comes to sports, is the "Sports CATapult" CD by Monette Benoit.  Monette has a whole host of wonderful CDs that are great for building your dictionary!  Lynne Marie Zakrzewski, RMR, CRR, CBC, CPE, CSR, Realtime Broadcast Captioner 

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Welcome to the largest library of court reporter training products: national and state certification materials, test prep, skill building tools, text-to-speech dictionary building software program - BEEDs and CATapult ^TM Real-Time Dictionary Building CD Series, NCRA written exam WKT CD tutorials, DePuzzLer Real-Time Manual, vocabulary prep, NCRA WKT textbooks, workbooks, study guides, handbooks, private tutoring and coaching for students, court reporters, professionals and free articles.

CD software programs, products, services and information has specifically been designed by experienced court reporters and experienced instructors for professionals, court reporters, captioners, CART providers, students, instructors, Deaf/deaf, hard of hearing, oral deaf, blind-deaf, and onsite, remote sign interpreters.

Per your request, individual products to include multiple CD programs, books, private tutoring services, reviews, 'compare' and testimonials are listed under "Categories" on the upper left side of this page.

Free articles and blog info from Monette's Musings are included on the lower left side of this page under "Articles" immediately above the calendar listing "Coming Events."

Information and details to assist the home-study student, classroom student, court reporter, CART provider and captioner detailing multiple products are listed immediately below with direct links.

1.   Are you taking the NCRA, National Court Reporters Association, RPR, RMR, RDR certification or state CSR, CCR, court reporting exam? Do you know someone who is?

Test Prep: CRR Books & CDs has an accelerated 95% successful pass rate on NCRA RPR, RMR, RDR and CCR, CSR state court reporting written certification exams. Here's what you learn to pass NCRA and state court reporting examinations:

Learn the method to taking a test; save huge chunks of time. Learn about Written Knowledge Tests and the 'd/a' -- distracting answer. Study necessary 'areas of knowledge' you will be tested on.

Material covers much more than previous NCRA, National Court Reporters Association, and state court reporting certification questions, so you expand your knowledge.

Learn how to answer questions studying the foundation of information for NCRA RPR, RMR, RDR and CSR, CCR court reporting examinations.

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** The only textbook and CD program to assist individuals to pass court reporting training certifications - NCRA RPR, RMR, RDR Written Knowledge Tests and state CCR, CSR court reporting certifications.

Monette Benoit's materials, www.CRRbooks.com, and CATapult CD series are wonderful for dictionary building and test prep, too.  They are highly recommended by captioning companies for transitioning court reporters and have been a tremendous help to me.  Suzanne Small, RDR, RMR, CRR, CBC, CPE, CSR

Court Reporting NCRA and state Written Test Prep Includes:

CSR, RPR, RMR, RDR WKT Court Reporter Reference Textbook (232 pages); WKT Workbook (218 pages); WKT Study Guide (192 pages); used in conjunction with Workbook shares precise explanations why answers are correct, incorrect answers from 'WKT Workbook'

Court Reporting Written Test Prep CD software program includes The 'CRRT' ^TM, Court Reporter Reference Tutorial program - practice material, mock tests to simplify studying -- pass NCRA and state certification tests the first time. 'CRRT': http://crrbooks.com/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=29

I've been using the 'CRRT' WKT CD for about a year, and the students love it. Every student that's completed has passed their written RPR so far. I also tell the students to hang onto it to study for the RMR written test. Jennifer Sati, RMR, CRR, CBC, Program Advisor, Anoka Technical College

Having been a captioner for several years and out of reporting and testing arenas, I knew I would need to cram for the Registered Diplomate Reporter exam, RDR. I chose the CSR, RPR, RMR, RDR Written Knowledge Test Court Reporter Reference Textbook and REALTIME Vocabulary Workbook to bring myself up to date -- and, how out of date I was!

These books have excellent study material for the CSR, RPR and RMR. I received my RDR results. Thanks, Monette! Kathy DiLorenzo, RDR-CRR-CBC - Director, Captioning Relations, VITAC

Much of the information that I studied from Monette Benoit's material appeared on the NCRA RPR written examination. The success that I had in passing the NCRA RPR Written Knowledge Test, WKT, is due to several factors. One major factor is the use of the study material written and taught by Monette Benoit.

This study material consisted of information derived from years of personal experience and knowledge as a court reporter. This information combined medical and legal terminology, spelling, vocabulary and grammar, as well as reporting procedures.

As a student not knowing what sources to consider, I felt inclined to study this material equally as I did the "WKT Workbook" and academic tests.

Monette has a strong desire to help the court reporting students succeed in their field. I believe her study material is a wonderful tool that should be utilized by students and court reporters everywhere as an aid in passing written knowledge tests. Thank you, Monette! You have helped me jump a major hurdle in my career! Laura B. Ballard, RPR, CSR

Good fortune is often called a windfall. This stems from medieval England when commoners had trouble finding wood for fuel. Royal decree prohibited them from chopping down trees, so when the wind knocked down branches it was a stroke of good luck.

Your CSR, RPR, RMR, RDR Court Reporter Reference Workbook is a windfall for the court reporting profession. The information in an easily-referenced and easily-retained format is a stroke of good luck for working reporters, students and instructors of court reporting. And what a delight to find an instructional textbook that is informative and entertaining!

I support your advice on how to take written knowledge tests in the Court Reporter Reference Text. Your test-taking tips are helpful and will, hopefully, relieve test-taking anxiety attacks. Both are necessary if one is truly interested in becoming certified. I applaud this much-needed contribution to our future! Mary Smith Agren, RPR, CRI, Denver, Colorado

I have greatly appreciated the opportunity to fully review your fine book, CSR, RPR, RMR Written Knowledge Test Court Reporters Reference Textbook, which is aimed at assisting students to pass the written knowledge test given in conjunction with the NCRA RPR test and CSR state tests.

We have ordered this book for use in our CSR prep course, which is given four times each year, for I feel it will be a great benefit to them. The format makes it readily workable, and the content is good. I have frequently stated that although students must have good speed and accuracy in machine writing, the knowledge factor is most important in an adequate court reporter. Enough has not been done along this line of student development; and your book certainly will contribute greatly to producing a well-rounded graduate.

I wish you much success in the distribution, which has so much of merit I recommend it. Sincerely yours, Mary H. Knapp, Chairman, CTRP, Court Reporting, Department

The more words you know, the more acurate will be your speaking, writing, thinking, and reporting. Monette Benoit will inspire you to make vocabulary-building a joyful and lifelong pursuit. Dr. Richard Lederer, NCRA Language Columnist

I recommend The Court Reporter Reference Text and Workbook. I give both books an excellent review! Nancy Patterson, Director, Bryan College, CA, Author, NCRA, "Preparing For The RPR, CM Written Knowledge Test"

This is to let you know how pleased I was to receive your book that will help students study to pass the WKT, written knowledge test. I use the "Court Reporter Reference" books in the preparatory classes that we offer every semester for our current students as well as working reporters in the area. You have covered all the areas that are on our test. You have saved me hours of work, and I appreciate all your effort. This will greatly enhance our students' chance of passing the Written Knowledge Test, WKT. Sincerely, Judy Larson, St. Louis Community College, MO

Thank you for providing such valuable tools toward preparing students for the RPR and CSR written knowledge tests. You have given us a wealth of information to use in other classes as well -- terminology, English, Court Procedures and CAT. A special tribute to your dedication to the court reporting profession.

The RPR, RMR, RDR Textbook, Workbook and Study Guide books are wonderful! Keep up the hard work! Dr. Pauletta Morse, Associate Professor, SIU, Carbondale, IL

Bravo! Bravo! What else can I say except that you have done a tremendous job. What a job it must have been researching all that material. You must have spent an enormous amount of time putting together the CSR, RPR, RMR Written Knowledge Test Textbook and Workbook.

I believe that not only are your books helpful for test taking, but they are an invaluable asset to one's reference library. The poems you included are inspiring, encouraging, entertaining, and brought smiles to my lips. Thank you for the books. I hope that your present students realize what an outstanding person and teacher you are. All my best wishes for much success. Florence B. Lefkof, Court Reporting Instructor

This is good stuff, down to earth and on the level that working reporters need.

From now on, our court reporters are going to get to know the CSR, RPR, RMR Written Knowledge Test Textbook, Written Exam Workbook, and Realtime Vocabulary Workbook by Monette Benoit better than their childhood teddy bear, dragging them around everywhere and maybe taking them home to bed. Steven Edmondson, B.S., CSR, CLVS, Birmingham, AL

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2. Would you like a private tutor, a coach, to reach your goals? If you are a home-study student, enrolled in a court reporting program or an experienced professional, Monette can help you privately one-on-one. What have you really wanted to do with your life? Specific custom-designed details shared to efficiently begin your new path.

Monette has worked with thousands of professionals, court reporters, students, instructors and individuals. As professionals seek new goals, technology continues to evolve with new opportunities and new information. A motivator and coach, experienced court reporter, instructor, CART Provider, Monette Benoit also works with individuals outside court reporting, working to create and fulfill new niches. To inquire about tutoring, coaching, email: Tutoring@CRRbooks.com or visit www.ARTCS.com ** Students receive a discount. Reviews: http://crrbooks.com/index.php?cPath=29

3. Dictionary Real-Time Dictionary Building Software Program for Captioning and Court Reporting Training: BEEDs and CATapult ^TM CD Series

Prepare For The Olympics with the "Sports, Olympics CATapult Real-Time Dictionary Building CD Program"  Direct link:  http://crrbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=72

Each CD is programmed with multiple free features including free dictionary building. Immediately increase writing speed, refine your accuracy, dictionary, avoid word boundary problems and issues, save time, money.

CATapult: Text-to-Speech Dictionary Building Program is the industry's leading court reporting realtime dictionary builder, improving realtime writing and speed enhancement. Build, expand and enhance a profesional realtime dictionary as thousands of people have --students and professionals now working as experienced captioners, court reporters.

The only dictionary software program where you open your CAT software and write words against your dictionary, so you can detect problems, so you can view word boundary issues, potential conflicts AS YOU BUILD.

Build a Court Reporter's Dictionary. Review. Preview. * Updated voice feature in each CATapult CD. Catapult today with a program containing multiple free features.

* All purchases of BEEDs and CATapult ^TM CD series receive free customized drills, created specifically to advance skills, speed and accuracy. If you purchased a CD, drop us an email. We will send at no charge.

Each 'CATapult' ^TM CD program is not a one-trick pony - Dictionary building is only one feature. CATapult CD series has multiple uses, features and applications for captioners, court reporters, students. Plus: With CATapult, there is no issue regarding the number of times each list may be reviewed. Practice as many times as you want, adjust varying speeds.

*** You should not have to purchase names from any rosters, teams - names with unusual spellings. Names are available on the Internet. You should be able to take this information and use it FREE in a custom feature within your dictionary building software.

CATapult CD Program Features Include: Ability to select from three different modes of practice

* 1. Flash the material on the screen in sequential order * 2. Flash the material on the screen in random order * 3. Dictate the material for practice

Ability to adjust speed, volume, and font presentation

Ability to write words into your personal or job dictionary using your realtime software as it is open and running; Ability to practice the words once you write them; Ability to create and practice your own drill material - (unlimited).

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Many court reporters and students have taken certification exams from the NCRA (again) using 'CATapult' ^TM program software and found great success by using the many free features of CATapult's program to pass:

CRR, Certified Realtime Reporter; CCP, Certified CART Provider; CBC, Certified Broadcast Captioner; RPR, Registered Professional Reporter; RMR, Registered Merit Reporter; and RDR, Registered Diplomate Reporter exams.

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Kathy DiLorenzo, VITAC:   I've had a long history in training captioners, and it is my belief that the strongest captioners are those who are strong writers. Seems simplistic, I know, but the reason that they're strong writers is not because they've got perfect fingers on perfect hands. The reason that they're strong writers is because they can process information at a very rapid pace. And they can process information quickly because they 'know' what they're writing. You can't write well what you don't know and what you don't understand. In the end, it's all about words, but you've got to know the words and the subjects.

Toward that end, I want to recommend to any newbies out there that the materials that you are using to prepare to caption are equally important as the actual writing skills. One product that I would highly recommend is the 'CATapult' CD Series.

Monette Benoit has a long and illustrious career in developing materials that give captioners and captioner-wannabes the 'knowledge' that they need to caption well. The CD Series includes a realtime dictionary builder that is compatible with any CAT system, and it even allows you to import your own lists or lists.

CATapult contains over a half a million words among 420 categories that were accumulated as a result of years of input from experienced captioners who build their dictionaries the hard way...getting an untranslate on air! You can find out more about CATapult by visiting www.CATapultdix.com.  Kathy DiLorenzo, RDR-CRR-CBC, Vice President, National Reporter Relations, LegaLink / VITAC Corporation, divisions of WordWave

'CATapult' CDs permit you to write in realtime, while your dictionary is open, using any CAT software program. As experienced instructors and court reporters, Bob McCormick and Monette urge people to be cautious regarding writing a list of words and merging/importing. Conflicts do occur. Many captioners and reporters want to analyze their steno entry to decide whether or not to add it to their dictionary. They have been 'stung' by an imported word that conflicts with another, while on air.

*Prep specific words, names, vocabulary, on job and speed-building classes. Copy text you need, insert text in a free category you create with one easy keystroke. Adjust volume, LISTEN to text at any speed, which you control. Customize each CD. Focus on increasing accuracy, speed. Focus on eliminating (the dreaded) hesitancy of what is or is not in your dictionary. 14-day money-back guarantee if 'CATapult' doesn't improve your translation rates. Perfect your writing - expand skills. Earn new professional certifications -- many certifications are required to obtain work in selected states or with national companies. Receive the tools to launch your skills to become an expert realtime writer, CART Provider or Captioner. If you're expected to do more with less, on the job or in a classroom, we want to help.

Monette Benoit, B. B.A., CCR, CRI, CPE, is an experienced court reporter, CART provider, author, international public speaker, coach, instructor and columnist as a contributing editor for the NCRA, National Court Reporters Association, Journal of Court Reporting. Her column "Beyond The Comfort Zone" is published each month within the JCR. A sampling of Monette's articles are listed in the left margin under Latest News, per your requests. Monette has also helped to create new court reporting training programs working with federal grants, assisting instructors and students.

Since 1995, Monette has authored 120 articles for the JCR. She has worked with professionals, educators, reporters and programmers to create user-friendly interactive CDs, a textbook, workbooks, study guides, handbooks and dictation material to assist individuals to master their work and to pursue the creation of new goals. ** Dictation material is available only to instructors.

Monette's products, educational books, private tutoring/coaching, public speaking to large and to small groups -- plus interactive CDs, containing ten volumes within the 'CATapult' CD Series are internationally recognized in 17 countries.

All CDs are supported by Monette Benoit and CATapult's programmer, Robert W. McCormick, Ph.D., MBA, CRI, NCRA's 'Award of Excellence' 2004 NCRA Teacher of The Year.

4. Free Articles by Monette Benoit from NCRA's JCR, Journal of Court Reporting, "Beyond The Comfort Zone" monthly column covering realtime, CART, captioning, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals, sign interpreters, students, teachers, deposition and judicial court reporters and much more are included on the left side of each web page under Latest News. * * These articles are my gift to you and are only a small listing. Earlier articles will continue to be posted. If you have any topics you would like to see covered, email Monette@CRRbooks.com.

** Link for information on Hepatitis C: http://crrbooks.com/ A donation will be shared for each CATapult CD purchased through CRR Books & CDs to assist two *special* projects, close to my heart. In memory and honor of my brother, Captain Kevin Drue Donnelly, activist, researcher and friend to many who died with Hepatitis C, a donation will be shared with "HCV Awareness, Veterans Helping Veterans." www.geocities.com/hepvet/

The CDC, Centers for Disease Control, currently posts a number of over five million adults and children within the U.S.A. who have contracted the Hepatitis C virus. Researchers have concluded four times as many people will die from Hep C than AIDS within the next decade, as the Hep virus continues to spread and piggy-back AIDS. The WHO, World Health Organization, posts an international number of over 170 million people with the virus.

**This posted five-plus million CDC number does not include veterans who have served their country; neither does this number include individuals in the military, prisons, homeless populations or individuals outside U.S.A. borders. Currently, the CDC does not include their numbers with published information.

A donation will also be shared for each 'CATapult' CD purchase with The National Breast Cancer Organization, www.nationalbreastcancer.org.

My brother wrote "The Panama Story" to assist individuals, veterans -- and their families -- to learn about Hepatitis C. Kevin combined facts, when and how this Hepatitis virus appeared in 1942, with fast-paced fiction to 'keep' the reader interested. http://www.geocities.com/hepvet/PanamaTitle.html

Just as a mother teaches a child to look both ways before crossing the road, we can teach, we can share, we must.

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Since 1990 CRR Books & CDs has delivered extensive customized test prep materials and tutoring, coaching for students, court reporters, captioners, CART providers and teachers acceleratin skills, earning NCRA written test and state certifications - plus - CATapult Your Dictionary offers students, court reporters and captioners interactive, realtime dictionary building CDs, which contain multiple free features.