What is transcription?

Transcription is when words get copied from one place to another, just like copying a note from your teacher’s board into your notebook.

Imagine you're at school and your teacher writes a sentence on the whiteboard: "The cat sat on the mat." You want to remember it, so you take out your pencil and write the same words in your notebook. That's transcription, taking something written and copying it somewhere else.

Think of it like sending a message through a friend. If your friend writes a note and gives it to you, and you write it down exactly as they did, that’s transcription. You’re not changing the words, you're just making sure the same message gets passed along.

Transcription helps us keep track of important things. When you copy homework into your notebook, or when a writer copies their ideas from one paper to another, they are all doing transcription, making sure the right words stay in the right place. Transcription is when words get copied from one place to another, just like copying a note from your teacher’s board into your notebook.

Imagine you're at school and your teacher writes a sentence on the whiteboard: "The cat sat on the mat." You want to remember it, so you take out your pencil and write the same words in your notebook. That's transcription, taking something written and copying it somewhere else.