A narrow region of the project appears on the screen as opposed to a lump of printed text. This enables tutors to get the students to really focus on their writing. Viewing only a small passage at a time often makes the revision process less overwhelming. Another advantage of viewing the project on the computer monitor is that the text can be manipulated. Students can quickly add lines and move around existing elements of their writing to get a better feel for the best organizational strategy.
Students often can learn a great deal about their own writing, when the text is so easily mobile.
It forces them to question their motives for placing sections of their writing where they did on the web site, and it makes rearrangement of the text less daunting. The goal of peer tutors always stands to create better writers and not to produce a perfect paper. Tutors should enable writers to become more proficient at identifying and correcting problems in their writing. In the peer tutorial, the tutor will often act as the writer's other self in order to present an example of the questions a writer should begin asking him or herself. This becomes even more important when a student is writing hypertext.