at Florida State University

Welcome to the FSU Online Writing Tutor. The site gives FSU students access to tutors who offer advice, guidance, and feedback on a variety of composition tasks.

Tutors are able to assist writers with all phases of writing -- from generating a topic, to revising a draft, to developing or refining the organizational structure of a paper, to developing effective proofreading and editing techniques, and other aspects of writing. Tutors focus on helping writers develop techniques and skills that assist the writer not only with the current writing assignment or project but also with all future writing projects.

Although tutors can assist with any aspect of the writing process, it's important that you ask specific questions that you want the tutor to address. Because email tutoring is often more time consuming than face-to-face tutoring, tutors may not be able to respond to the entire essay. Tutors will respond to as much of the essay as possible within a half an hour block. You may write back to the tutor for follow-up questions and clarifications.

Tutors will respond within 48 hours (Papers submitted Friday will receive response by Tuesday).

There are some things you should know about online tutoring before you decide to send a paper to an online tutor:

What We Can Do

Help you with any aspect of writing-from coming up with a topic to revising to organizing your ideas to developing proofreading skills and more.

Help you develop as a writer.

Help you develop skills and techniques that you can apply to future writing projects.

Help you by answering specific questions.

What We Can't Do

Proofread or edit your paper.

Respond to your paper immediately-it can take up to 48 hours to for a tutor to respond to your paper. Items sent in on Friday afternoons will not be returned with a response until Tuesday.

Give you feedback if all you do is send us the paper; tutors need some information about the assignment and some specific questions that you have to provide meaningful and constructive feedback.

Write your paper for you.

 

Yes, I think online tutoring is for me.