Meet Professor Egle

Professor, writer, editor

I've been teaching writing for over twenty years at a community college. Multilingual students, native English speakers, composition classes, public speaking courses, and everything in between. Before I became a professor, I was a writer and an editor. I worked at a newspaper and in medical advertising, so I learned early on how to work at the sentence level and see the big picture at the same time. That combination has shaped everything I do.

The gap I kept seeing

When AI writing tools started showing up everywhere, I didn't wait. I brought them into my classroom in early 2023, redesigned my assignments to include AI, and taught my students how to actually use it well. I wanted to understand what these tools could do for learning, not just for output.

What I found was a gap. Most AI tools do one of two things: they make corrections without meaningful explanations, or they skip the errors entirely and just rewrite your sentences for you. Either way, the student doesn't learn anything. And the tools that are easiest to use are also the easiest to lean on as a shortcut. Polished output, zero thinking.

Editing + tutoring = editutor

That's where the name came from. Students go to tutoring hoping for real editing help and real explanations. Not a rewrite, not a grade, not a pat on the back. They want to understand what's wrong and how to fix it themselves.

Over the years, so many of my students have told me that the most helpful thing I do is give them small, specific feedback on their actual writing. Not a letter grade. Not "good job." Actual editing with actual explanations. That's what I wanted editutor™ to do, too.

editutor™ is built on a simple idea: AI can be a powerful learning tool, but only if it's designed to teach rather than to produce. It asks you questions instead of handing you answers. It meets you where you are, whether English is your first language or your fourth, and helps you build real writing skills you carry forward.

Why it matters

Writing is hard. Every student I've ever taught has struggled with some part of it, whether it's organizing ideas, fixing grammar, finding the right words, or learning to do all of that in a second language. I've spent my whole career helping students get better at it, one sentence at a time, one draft at a time.

I believe AI can help with that, if it's built the right way. That's what editutor™ is: the kind of writing help that actually makes you a better writer. Not a shortcut. Not a rewrite machine. A tutor.