Tutor.com has highly skilled tutors who look for more than just surface level items. When using the website, I had to choose between a live tutoring session and a 24-hour review with feedback. I chose the 24-hour review. Furthermore, since I was …show more content…
My tutoring session came at the near the end of my writing process, but it could be helpful at any point. In particular, I was in the Editing stage, as presented by James D. Williams in Preparing to Teach Writing. The other stages are Invention, Planning, Drafting or scribing, Pausing, Reading and rereading, Revising, Editing, and lastly Publishing. Editing is the stage where grammar and punctuation matter the most. Until this stage, the focus of the author is to get their ideas on the page and to organize their thoughts. Nevertheless, no matter how important these stages are, the stages can be grouped together to form a more coherent idea, and sometimes authors do not go in this exact order, but rather jump or linger, in one or …show more content…
It was nearly complete and just needed a quick check. I would suggest to all writers have someone else read their paper at this stage. The editing stage is the time to strive for perfect grammar, spelling, and sentence level-errors, and authors need an educated person to look for these things. When I submitted my paper, the tutor commented mainly on comma use. This helped me polish my paper up before the final stage: submission or Publishing.
In conclusion, throughout the writing process, it can be beneficial to receive help from a tutor or friend. Sometimes the writers cannot judge their work well enough, because they are too attached to their papers, or are burnt out from working on it. In either case, it is a good idea to receive help. Therefore, because of my experience with Tutor.com, I would recommend it to other