Doing minutes Verbatim?

Question

I take minutes for four boards where I work. Usually I don't have to do verbatim, but there is a possible legal case regarding an issue and I have to go back to those minutes, listen to the tape and do one section verbatim. The question is When the person talking says umm or oh, do I put that in there too? And what about when they make no sense, and you have to rephrase the sentence to make it right? What should I do? Every had this situation?

Answer 1

Verbatim means verbatim so you must include phrases.  If you dont understand a certain part of the tape you should type T/N inaudible. Your line management must be bad when your asking the Q here.

Answer 2

I don't think you have to put the ummms in there.

you could put *pause* in those cases where people go umm, and such but I do not think it is necessary.

Answer 3

Nope you dont put "umm" I would put "oh" if the person said "oh okay" or something along those lines. If you have to write verbatim, you should never rephrase what a person says... if someone says something that makes no sense whatsoever, and you dont want it to fall back on you, you can write SIC (said in context)... Hope I helped :)