Student Walkthrough
Students access the Online Tutor from the UNC Writing Center webpage (http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb). They are taken to a login page where they enter a username and password.
From here the student can go in a number of different directions. If the student wishes to submit a draft for review by a tutor, he/she can view the weather symbol to gauge the likelihood of a timely response. The weather symbol changes from sunny to cloudy to stormy based on pre-set limits established by the Director.
The student then chooses Submit Draft for Course / No Course from the
options on the left side of the page. The student then is taken to the
submission form page:
This form asks the student a number of questions about the assignment, their draft, their usual concerns as a writer. Besides the introductory information such as course and instructor, these specific prompts/questions are asked:
- Paste the assignment or re-type directly from the handout or your notes
- Describe the assignment in your own words
- Did you receive any other information from your instructor concerning the assignment?
- What documentation style (MLA, APA, CBE, etc.), if any, did the assignment specify?
- Give a brief title to your paper:
- When is the paper due?
- When do you need the response by to provide enough time for revision?
- How much time have you scheduled to revise this draft?
- How long should your paper be?
- Who is the audience for this piece of writing? Your instructor? Classmates? Someone specified in the assignment?
- What have you done with this piece of writing so far?
- What, if anything, have others told you about this piece of writing so far?
- What are your top three concerns about your draft?
- What do you usually struggle with as a writer?
- What is the strongest aspect of this draft?
- What is the weakest aspect of this draft?
- Is there anything else you would like the tutor to know about your draft or yourself as a writer?
After completing the form, the student attaches a draft and submits the form. An email is automatically generated confirming the successful submission.
After a tutor reviews the student's concerns, reads the draft, and
submits comments, the student receives an email indicating that comments
are available on the website. The student then enters the Online Tutor
with his/her Onyen and password and chooses My Submissions from the
option menu on the entry page. The student then sees every paper she/he
submitted to the online tutor:
Clicking on one of the hyperlinked titles takes the student to the original submission form. On the form is a link to the tutor's comments:
The comments remain attached to the original submission in the password-protected student-specific archive.
Finally, the student can submit an anonymous evaluation of his/her
experience with the Online Tutor.