This volume equips the reader with the necessary tools needed to embark on a first transcription. Overall then, given the aim of the book to be used in introductory courses on research using interaction data, Jenks' work is a welcome, hands-on resource for how to transcribe.

- Veronika Drake, University of Wisconsin-Madison, on Linguist List Vol. 23.1907 (2012),

Jenks’s timely publication has relevance for postgraduate researchers and scholars, especially in the field of conversation analysis (CA). The book is a comprehensive introduction to transcribing interaction, which covers both practical and theoretical aspects of the phenomenon. [...] This erudite guide to transcription in interaction research makes a significant contribution to the field by combining the theory and practice of transcribing as an indispensable aspect of communication research. This book has the potential to inform both novice and experienced researchers and can be used as an informative resource in postgraduate programmes in communication, sociology, psychology, anthropology, education and applied linguistics all over the globe.

- Olcay Sert, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, in Discourse Studies, Vol. 15:3 (2013, pages 353-355.,