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About Online Tutoring

Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Tutoring

Advantages
	Students can send papers any time of the day, from anywhere. Some students learn better in an anonymous setting, without the distractions of the physical presence of a tutor. Tutors have more time to think over their response. Students can print the tutor's remarks and study them as often as needed. Students can learn from the tutor's remarks in a setting of their choice (at home, on the bus, etc.). Students get experience working with web forms, email, and learn to read comments about their writing in writing.
Disadvantages
	The immediacy of one-to-one tutoring is gone. Tutors have a lot of guess work to do. Students might have problems separating the tutor's remarks from their paper and/or applying the tutor's suggestions when they revise. Some errors might be difficult to handle in an online session. On the whole, online tutoring is better for global issues, such as essay structure and essay development, while one-to-one tutoring might still be better for teaching grammar.