Writing Tutor (Revised) | 
 enlarge | From: Simon & Schuster Interactive
Category: Software
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $19.92
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 6563
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.9 x 2
Model: 0743509684
UPC: 076714509689
EAN: 0076714509689
ASIN: B00005JGG6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: for Windows 95/98/ME and XP. CD's original and new in sleeve only, delivered in 7-16 business days
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Amazon.com Product Description
Writing Tutor provides step-by-step help for writing a wide variety of assignments, including articles, term papers, reports, memos, letters, stories, and presentations. It guides the writer from idea development to final draft, and offers tools for visualizing a piece of writing in its entirety. It checks for language variety, vague adjectives, unity and coherence, adverb usage, and more. Tools for the writer include photo storyboards, with a collection of photographs to help you generate and organize story ideas, chain of events diagrams to organize plots or arguments, timelines, and Venn diagrams.
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 Cute, but not very useful. March 3, 2004
Christina Martin (Washington State)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This program has several cute features (though nowhere near the 50 they claim) but each works out rather like a "demo mode" of shareware. There are a few limited examples in each module, not a full list of features. It takes a lot of work to try to make the program at all useful, and to be blunt, it takes most of the creativity out of writing, rather than sparking your creativity. Most of the exercises reminded me either of a second grade "storyboard" activity or a sixth grade story prompt. None of the exercises are helpful in developing a real idea that you already have into an actual story or article.I will say this, though: it would be fun to use for a week or two in an elementary school classroom.
You get what you pay for! May 2, 2002
Dr. Idelia P. Phillips (United States)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Not even worth the [money]! The typing section of the program may be better. The writing tutor - the level of analysis is very low. It doesn't catch a number of common errors.
 Buyer Beware -- You Better Believe It!!! April 25, 2002
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This programme is really awful. It states that it is suitable for "any" type of writers, but it is really only suitable for elementary school aged children, and even that group would not find this programme very enticing -- I know, because I teach elementary school. I am angry because of their advertising rhetoric, and like the previous reviewer stated, although it worked, it is way behind the times in technologically. Like my kids would say, "This programme [is bad]!"
Buyer Beware!!! April 17, 2002
C. Matthew Hawkins (Pittsburgh, PA United States)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Buyer Beware! If you have a Windows 2000 operating system on your PC, or the latest operating system for Macintosh, this little gem will not work on your machine. When asked about this problem, the manufacturer of said, "it's not designed to work on the current operating systems." I asked them if they intended to upgrade the software and they said, "I don't think so, but then again, technicians are always the last ones to know." Wrong, it is we, the consumers, who are the last ones to know. We find out AFTER we have bought the product and try to use it. Writing Tutor may once have been a good idea and a good piece of software, but if it was as good as they say it was its manufacturers should continue to support it. As it stands today, the software is pretty much useless.
 Writing Tutor is Easy and Fun!! August 30, 2001
David Biscotti (McMinnville, OR)
45 out of 50 found this review helpful
Writing Tutor software is the answer for beginning writers and semi-professional story writers who do not want to pay [price] or more for good writing software. Writing Tutor does well among writing software competitors (StoryView, etc.) It organizes your story components, outlines, has a timeline, storyboard, idea wheels, story map . . . I could go on and on. I used it to complete two short stories and am currently using some of the features for my novel. It's a wonderful product at an unbelievable price. I recommend it highly.
David Biscotti, Former Publisher of the Cozy Detective Mystery Magazine.
Current Publisher of Earthbase 3000, Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror zine
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