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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1991)
COMMUNITY Typing services offer key help for student papers Different philosophies on editing characterize campus businesses By Miriam Winston I morale! Contributor At 2 a in. you begin to realize the futility of your index-finger typing method At :t you run out of liquid pa per and the question mark on your manual typewriter is stuck. Could you have avoided this anguish? Would vour professor apprei into a neater paper ' Who you gonna call? When your word processing needs exceed your typing ebili ties, your computer expertise or vour available time, you have options Penny and Ken Allmel of Tv pos want to help Typos., titiS T 1 Ith Ave , ad M illses “quiiilv word profess ing" and "complete hard - vvare/soflware support ()r you could turn to Cindy Kouttu or Carolyn Sherrell, or a host of other services Typos is Creek lor "to t route an image " The Typos laser printers and resume services of fer professional help to slu dents and business people alike, I'eniu Allmel said 'The cost to students is $2 a double spai ed page Or, for $<> an hour, students can do tin dr own work in WordPerfect r> 1 or WordStar on IBM-compatible computers named Llvis and Jerry Lire, and receive lots ol help and udv i( e Advice about running the computers, that is, "It's your grade, not mine," is Penny Allmet's firm answer to students who want editing serve es on papers she process es "I type last," Allmet said, "and it slows me down to read a paper " Allmet said she can often get the paper hack to the student the same day "We get students in a jam, and I want to help," she said, "so I’ve had turnarounds ul one day on fit) page papers This set vie e creates loy a I i .. .turners like Mary Webb, a University junior who ire (juents Typos She vsas first laced with a 22-page paper," she said, "and I just can’t type " "I do my own rough drafts," said Don Mihaloew, a rei ent graduate, "but I'm a hunt-and peck typist." Mihaloew took his disserta tion to Typos m June, and "Ken and Penny just went the extra mile for me," he said Penny Allmet, co-ownor ol Typos, works on processing a paper. She concentrates on speed and leaves the editing to the student. 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A lot of students come in to create, he said, hut more come in with their work already done, so customers spend anv where from five minutes to six hours on the computers ('indy Kouttu of WordStyles and TypoScripts, 48-1-5454, said she believes in sitting down with students to go over papers that have consistent er rors. "There arc certain courses we’re not'allowed to edit for," she said In others, "professors even call or send students in" for the extra help they need on a paper, she said. The issue of editing and tu toring is a somewhat gray area in word processing services, said Elaine Green of the office of the l Jean of Students "If someone asks for help, pointing out problems is OK," she said, "but editor correcting is not OK.” Kouttu finds this argument unfair. “The University is not truly cognizant of what is out there" in terms of spell-check and grammar check programs, she said. "There is a difference in the: final grades of students who have money,” Kouttu said, be cause they can afford the pro grams that do what she is not allowed to do. Green said word-processing services charge: money, too, and added she does not believe many students have sophist! rated grammar-check programs "With spoil-checker or gram mar-checker," Green said, "stu dents still have: to correct their own mistakes" after the eompu ter points them out Kouttu said she has talked with several professors who agree with her that the guide lines in the Student Gondurt Gode are “vague and unfair." The; current interpretation ol the code says plagiarism and academic dishonesty guidelines prohibit outright editing In word processing services. In addition, it says tii.it no one may udil or contribute to the meaning of another's work knowing that it is for academic credit. In Routtu’s mind, that puts tlie hall in the student's court "Sometimes," she said, "cus turners won't tell us" whether it's a journal article or an ling hsh paper. Routtu and typist Carolyn Sberrell both charge SI5 an hour, and they advertise toge ther as "Word Specialists,” hut the similarities stop there. Carolyn’s Specialties, 4B4-4177, has been in business for 23 years, and Sherrell has never edited student papers for grammar or content. "1 believe students learn through correcting their own errors," she said, "because that is part of the process.”