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Tutor is the creative coach every writer can use, no matter what the assignment. Writing
Tutor shows you the way, from idea development to first draft to final edits and
revisions. Writing Tutor's word and image databases help inspire ideas, while its
exclusive writing tools help you to shape those ideas, formulate and organize key
messages, and create cohesive drafts. Writing Tutor helps you to succeed. This is a complete writing system for any assignment
at home, in school, or at work. Writing Tutor walks you through a 10-step process:
- Inspirations for writing
- Choosing a topic
- Narrowing a topic
- Considering audience and purpose
- Gathering details
- Organizing details
- Drafting
- Revising and editing
- Proofreading
- Assessment
This new interactive writing program gives
you a step-by-step system to help you succeed at any writing assignment. Write better and
faster articles, term papers, reports, memos, letters, stories, and presentations. This
program also helps you to improve your writing style. Developed as a complete writing
environment, The Writing Tutor makes it easy to turn out clear and engaging
stories, papers, speeches, articles, and much more. You write and revise drafts within the
program or import your documents created in other word processing programs.
At every stage in the writing process, The
Writing Tutor gives you a wealth of tools to further develop your skills. Helpful aids
include Media Inspirations to encourage your imagination, Graphic Organizers to arrange
your thoughts, Revision Checkers to identify common mistakes in your draft, and many other
helpful aids. A complete reference gift set is also included. Release date: July, 1998.
Works with Microsoft Word, WordPerfect,
Write and Notepad. Writing Tutor offers a collection of more than 50 tools including:
- Photo Storyboards
- Idea Wheels
- Issue Wheels
- Timelines
- Venn Diagrams
- Cluster Diagrams
- Chain of Events
- Word and topic bins
- Story map
- Self interview
- Notecards
- Peer-evaluation
- Language checkers
The CD-ROM also includes on-screen handbooks
such as the grammar handbook, the problem solver handbook, and the writing handbook which
explains literary terms and style issues.
Free bonus software includes Typing
Tutor 6, the nation's top-selling typing software, Webster's New World
Dictionary, World's Most Often Misspelled and Mispronounced, Webster's New World
Thesaurus. All bonus software comes on the same CD ROM disk with the Writing Tutor
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