ABSTRACT
The basic dilemma is that chemists are usually poor typists and typists are usually poor chemists. It is a moot point if an undergraduate can teach a typist sufficient chemistry more easily than a chemist can be taught to produce a report of reasonable quality. Some universities will require the students to produce their own reports as part of their training. Elsewhere, many students will not have access to the typewriters and word processors necessary for them to produce their own reports. The best safeguard against unreliability is the recommendation of others. Lone typists are very vulnerable to having their work disrupted by illness. Typists with pressing debts or extravagant tastes may charge the full rate for a page containing five lines of text. Those who wish to be engaged by other students in the future will usually amalgamate short pages when calculating payment. Most typists are not conversant with proof marking systems used in publishing houses.
