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The Forensic Linguistics Institute is accredited as a learning provider by the Open and Distance Learning Quality Council.

Forensic Linguistics Short Courses

Note: An alternative way to gain the Certificate in Forensic Linguistics is to complete 3 short courses

Evidential Transcription Course (TAE/1) £50.00

This is one of our short courses. It gets you transcribing evidence tapes fast and accurately and teaches you all the necessary transcription conventions you need to know to transcribe audio tapes to an evidential standard. For more advanced transcription see our Certificate in Forensic Transcription.

Shows how to transcribe interview tapes, what to look for, how to summarise, what not to summarise, and how to set out a transcription. The assignments use actual examples from past cases.

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Theories of authorship £50.00

This course will help you to understand some of the theoretical issues involved in authorship attribution, including language variation, text and genre types, and types of authorship test.

The course examines some theoretical aspects of authorship attribution, including the social constructedness of the notion of 'author' and previously unpublished material on author variation.

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Practical authorship attribution £50.00

This course takes actual texts from past cases and gets you actively involved in searching for authorship attribution clues. An example model report of an actual forensic linguistic investigation is included. This is an opportunity to take a close look at how authorship attribution works.

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Note: you are welcome to take any of our courses simply for the experience. Or you can combine them into modules and take our certificate course as shown above.

Advanced Certificate: If you complete the Certificate course, two short courses and two micro-courses you will be awarded the Advanced Forensic Linguistics Certificate.

Forensic Linguistics Institute Payment & Refund Policy The Forensic Linguistics Institute Refund policy Payment for all notebooks and courses is via our secure WorldPay account. All major credit cards are accepted. If you prefer to pay by cheque (drawn on a UK bank) please mail to: Forensic Linguistics Institute, Bryntirion Mawr, Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, SY21 0BL, United Kingdom. Please make cheque payable to: John Olsson.

 

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