Writing, Editing and Formatting

Interview reports

'You speak your report – I'll write it!' On Time Typing has specialised in transcribing interview reports since 2002. We transcribe your reports via telephone, anywhere in Australia. All you need for On Time Typing to transcribe your interviews via telephone is a speaker phone; or if your interviews are being conducted via teleconference, On Time Typing will link into your teleconference.

We first offer you a free consultation via telephone and/or email to explain the process and make a tentative booking to transcribe your interview reports.
We then send you a personalised quote for transcribing and producing your interview reports, which details the services and charges offered by On Time Typing, and a detailed outline of our roles and responsibilities in transcribing your interview reports.
Upon request, we will provide a signed Guarantee of Confidentiality, Accurate Content and Delivery by Deadline.
Once you have confirmed your booking, we ask you to email us some information so we can prepare the template for your interview report prior to the day of the interviews. On the day of the interviews, we transcribe the interviews, and transcribe the panels' discussions straight into the prepared interview report, and if required, we prompt the panel for the information needed to complete the interview report.
We then edit and submit the 1st Draft of your interview reports within 5 working days (or sooner if requested).

Writing minutes and reports

On Time Typing transcribes your meetings, workshops or dictation, as you speak, straight into a document – then writes and edits your minutes, reports or other documents. We first offer you a free consultation to explain the process by which we will transcribe your event. We then send you a personalised quote for transcribing your event and producing the minutes, reports and/or transcripts you require. Upon confirmation of your booking, upon your request we will send you a signed Guarantee of Confidentiality, Accurate Content and Delivery by Deadline. If your event has been prerecorded, we can also give you a signed Guarantee of 100% Accurate Transcripts. We may then ask you to email us some information so that we can prepare a template for your minutes or report prior to transcribing your event.

Small events (1–5 people) – dictation, interviews, meetings, focus groups

On Time Typing transcribes your event via telephone – typing as you speak, straight into a document; or, if your event has been prerecorded, On Time Typing transcribes your digital audio or audio cassette recordings of the event.
All you need for On Time Typing to transcribe your event via telephone is a speaker phone; or if your event is being conducted via teleconference, On Time Typing will link into your teleconference.
If appropriate to your booking, we first prepare a template for your minutes or reports. We then transcribe all the main points of what you say straight into that template.
On Time Typing then produces your statements, formatted minutes, reports and/or transcripts and submits them to you by email by the agreed deadline.

Larger events – focus groups, workshops, seminars and large meetings

Usually, On Time Typing is available to transcribes large events on-site in Victoria and the Northern Territory – typing as you speak, straight into a laptop. However, this service is not currently available.
If your event has been prerecorded, On Time Typing transcribes the digital audio or audio cassette recordings of large events, then produces formatted minutes, reports and/or transcripts and submits them to you by email by the agreed deadline.
For large events, if you need participants' names identified alongside their comments in the final document, it is important that you either produce a 'log sheet' (or 'running sheet') identifying each person as they speak, or ensure that each speaker identifies him/herself continually throughout the event. If you would like advice on how to produce a 'log sheet' please let us know. If speakers cannot be identified by the audio transcriptionist their comments will be identified by 'M' (for male), 'F' (for female) or '?' if unknown.

Formatting and proofreading reports

Is your report or submission almost complete but just needs some 'tidying up' to make sure that the formatting and style is consistent and that there are no typing errors, to give it that 'professional edge' you need? Or has your report or submission been compiled from 'copy and pastes' and the formatting is all over the place, and needs to be made consistent? On Time Typing is highly skilled in troubleshooting formatting problems, and formatting reports and submissions, and will ensure that your reports are presented at the highest standard.

On Time Typing first consults with you via telephone and email to clarify exactly what you need, who your target audience is, and your preferred timeline.
We provide you with a personalised quote and upon request, a signed Guarantee of Confidentiality, Accurate Content and Delivery by Deadline.
On Time Typing obtains the necessary files from you and edits, formats and/or proofreads your documents to the best possible standard so that they look sharp and professional.
We then submit your reports or submissions by email, by the agreed deadline.

Writing and compiling reports

If you have the information you need to write your submission or report but most of it is still in your head or on scraps of paper, On Time Typing can save you many hours of work by transcribing and/or compiling your submission or report for you. On Time Typing first offers a free consultation via telephone to clarify exactly what you need, your target audience, and your preferred timeline.

We provide you with a personalised quote and upon request, a signed Guarantee of Confidentiality, Accurate Content and Delivery by Deadline.
On Time Typing consults with you via telephone to obtain the information we need to write your report, and pulls together that verbal information as well as any documentation you have provided to compile and edit your report.
During the compilation and editing of your report, we may consult with you again via telephone to clarify some points or to transcribe some extra information into the document, before the final formatting and proofreading stage.
We then format and proofread the document and submit your polished, professional reports or submissions by email, by the agreed deadline.

Dictation

As you speak

On Time Typing first offers a free consultation via telephone to clarify exactly what you need and your preferred timeline.
We send you a personalised quote and upon request, a signed Guarantee of Confidentiality, Accurate Content and Delivery by Deadline.
We transcribe your letters, statements or reports as you speak, via telephone, then email them to you as transcripts or as edited, formatted documents.
We can type your letters, statements or reports into blank documents, our own prepared templates, or your organisation's letterhead documents or templates.

Prerecorded

On Time Typing first offers a free consultation via telephone to clarify exactly what you need and your preferred timeline.
We send you a personalised quote and a signed Guarantee of Confidentiality, 100% Accuracy and Delivery by Deadline.
If you have recorded your dictation onto digital audio files, you can send them to On Time Typing electronically, via our forwarding website.
On Time Typing transcribes and proofreads your dictation, either verbatim or edited as required, into letters, statements or reports.
On Time Typing then submits your proofread documents by email, by the agreed deadline.

Writing and editing publications

For information about Sally-Anne Watson's experience and skill in writing, editing, manuscript appraisal, and compiling and publishing various types of publications, please see the Peewee Press Publications page in this website.

Recent clients

Minutes, reports and transcripts of meetings

Department of Employment, Education and Training NT, Project and Consultancy Services (report of workshop)
Darwin City Council NT (minutes of tender interview meetings)
Relationships Australia (minutes of bimonthly meetings)
DEET NT, Indigenous Education, Learning Lessons Implementation Steering Committee (transcripts of meetings)
Department of Business, Economic and Regional Development NT, Business Partnering Forum (report of 2-day workshop)
FaCSIA, Office of Indigenous Policy, ABA National Advisory Committee Meeting, (transcript and report of 2-day meeting)
A number of businesses and companies in Sydney and Melbourne.

Interview reports

On Time Typing has transcribed and produced a large number of interviews reports for:

Commonwealth Departments: Employment and Workplace Relations; Immigration and Indigenous Affairs; Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs; Australian Customs Service; Centrelink; Australian Bureau of Statistics; Office of Indigenous Policy
NT Departments and Divisions: Local Government; Housing; Sport and Recreation; Health and Families; Business; Justice; Treasury; Planning and Infrastructure; Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines.

Writing and/or formatting reports

Department of Health and Community Services (now DHF) – formatting and proofreading tender documents
Department of Health and Community Services (now DHF) – formatting and proofreading manuals for internal distribution
Hiran Johnpillai – via consultations via telephone and email, transcribing, writing and compiling a lengthy and complex submission which achieved a successful outcome
For other experience in writing submissions and reports – see Peewee Press Publications.