ABSTRACT
The last few years witnessed a growing number of online writing centers and an increasing number of college campuses gaining access to network technologies supporting electronic communication. The promise of using computer networks for tutor-student collaboration has become a reality. On the one hand, using electronic communication (most commonly e-mail) for tutoring writing students offers some practical advantages-easy access to tutors, an efficient medium for exchanging text, and a permanent written transcript of the discussion for later review. At the same time, it offers a substantially different learning experience for both tutor and student, one characterized by the absence of body language and other visual cues that can indicate acceptance or understanding of the discussion.
