Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Simon & Schuster
EAN: 0076714509689
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Simon & Schuster Interactive
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Interactive
Model: 0743509684
Packaged Height: 200 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 950 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 788 hundredths-inches
Platform: Macintosh
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Interactive
Studio: Simon & Schuster Interactive
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:
8 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 Cute, but not very useful., 2004-03-03
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.
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