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For information Contact:
Jane Smith
Springfield College of Court Reporting
123 Main Street
Springfield, USA
800-555-1212, jane@emailaddress.com

Student Court Reporters Earn AND Learn at Local College

Springfield, USA October 31, 1998 -- If you could word process at 180 words per minute, who could you be? Either a world-record-holding speed typist or a typical court reporting student. Make no mistake, these highly-skilled individuals have been doing this for years. And, with current leaps in technology, these reporters can take their professional skills outside court and deposition rooms and into the halls of corporate America.

Those dictation tapes you've been staring at could be done in one-third the time.

The introduction of recent technologies now allows skilled individuals to "write" into any Windows® 95/98/NT application at speeds typically reserved for transcripts and realtime transcript viewing. Until recently, the format limited the application of a reporter's skills because transcripts were produced in a read-only text. Now users can virtually replace a PC keyboard with the steno machine and write in realtime into any program --opening more opportunities for the application of their skills than ever!

Springfield College of Court Reporting is proud to encourage its students to pursue alternate applications of their very special and useful skills. The school has embraced the National Court Reporters Association's new philosophy: Earn and Learn, a concept that acknowledges that students of court reporting, while not at speeds required for professional legal work (standards are around 225 wpm), are marketable to other industries until they reach certification.

The Earn and Learn concept provides students a means of income, of practice, dictionary and speed building and networking opportunities. It offers businesses another skill resource and it gives schools like Springfield College of Court Reporting a chance to increase enrollment, decrease drop-out rates and initiate a strong working relationship with local area businesses.

"The Earn and Learn program has given our students an opportunity to apply their skills early in their career and build their skills while making money," says Jane Smith, Director of Springfield College. We have some students that have already made valuable contacts and are looking to freelance as information reporters once they graduate. For the right student, this opens up an entirely new professional opportunity to work anywhere from police stations to Internet Information Relay in realtime."

To learn more about opportunities in court reporting or information reporting, or to see how you can get a reporting student to work for you, contact Jane Smith at Springfield College at 800 555-1212.

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