[Helpful
for: All LUs/Year levels but not in all schools]
Assalamu
Alaykum! (Greetings of Peace!)
Transcriptions
or “transes” are the concise and summarized copies of the lectures by your
professors. There should be some people who will do the dirty job of
transcribing, and they are called the transcribers or in short: “Transers”
Your
class will usually divide you into groups of transers with three members each
(some schools will have only two) and you will be assigned to a scheduled lecture
for you to transcribe. It is then your responsibility as the transers to get
the necessary and significant information discussed in the lectures. You also
have to do your best to persuade your lecturer to give you a copy of their
presentations and handouts. Some professors are generous while others are just
plain, nasty ones. So you have to be prepared if you have to start from scratch
for the trans. But this (starting from scratch) does not happen very often as
you will also be given a copy of the past transes where you can “pattern” your
own transes.
But
hey! DO NOT JUST COPY-PASTE THE PAST TRANS TO YOUR TRANS! All your classmates
will hate this and you will eventually get the “Lazy Transers Award”. Just use
the old trans as your guide, you can copy some parts of their trans but be sure
to let it appear that you made some changes as well. Although you might get the
same lecturer with the same topic and the same content from the past transes
all throughout, you must as much as possible do some “revisions”. Add new notes
discussed by your professors that were never mentioned in the past, and your
group can decide if you will retain or delete those parts that were never
mentioned by your professors (unless if he/she says “read the past
transcriptions” which means it will appear in the exams).
As
a group, you three must work together and divide the tasks equally. You have to
agree first on how you divide the work: some would divide them by parts/pages
while others divide it by “tasks” (revisions, formatting, final editing and
uploading, printing and submission). Then you decide on the deadlines for each
task so that you will be able to submit on time and avoid the sanctions.
All
in all, a good team dynamics should play here. It will always be a pain if one
of your group mates will not help in the transcribing especially if you are
assigned in a very bad schedule—the last lecture before the exam. And because
you will be grouped alphabetically according to your surnames, you really have
no choice but to work with the ones next or before you. So you better get to
know your trans-mates’ attitudes and skills, who is good at this and that, and
who is more responsible and who is not. Know each other’s strengths and
weaknesses and try developing a good working chemistry. You really have to find
ways--no matter what—to make your team work effectively. Each one of you must
be able to help in transcribing and be responsible with his/her task without sacrificing
the quality of your transes.
Well,
you will get used to your transmates later on. You HAVE to get used to it
somehow for you really have no choice. Haha. I am honestly blessed to have
great transmates from the very beginning :) Hi Meggie and Karl! :D
Salam
Kasilasa!
Anakiluh,
MD
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