Eastern Oregon University

Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Writing Tutor Response Form ("Blue Slip")

Important: If you have checked "yes" in your submission form, a tutor will send you a completed "BlueSlip" by email. Each student is responsible for forwarding the "Blue Slip" to the professor with the revised draft.

Student's Name:

Tutor's Name:

Tutor's Email:

Date of Online Session:

Title of Submitted Draft:

Main Issues Addressed in Writing Tutor Response:

Note to Student and Professor: Writing Tutors are trained to find a focus for each response in order to address the main issues in a student's draft, particularly first addressing the global issues of focus, development, and/or organization. Tutors should not be expected to address all issues in a draft.

At the local or sentence level, tutors may point out some error patterns, modeling corrections in examples, expecting students to apply the example to the rest of the draft. Tutors are not editors or proofreaders.

We also ask that students and professors have reasonable expectations of what writing tutors can address during one online session, and also to keep in mind that tutors cannot be expected to address course content issues.

If you have any questions about the EOU OWL, contact Writing Lab Director Susan Whitelock at writelab@eou.edu.