Writing Tutor (Revised)

by Simon & Schuster

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005JGG6
• Item model number: 0743509684
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 24, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,266 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #54 in Software > Education & Reference > Writing & Literature
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware!!!, April 16, 2002

By 

C. Matthew Hawkins (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Writing Tutor (Revised) (CD-ROM)

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.

47 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Writing Tutor is Easy and Fun!!, August 29, 2001

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David Biscotti (McMinnville, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Writing Tutor (Revised) (CD-ROM)

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

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for!, May 2, 2002

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Idelia (Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Writing Tutor (Revised) (CD-ROM)

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.