PBS
Career Connections | Public Relations Specialist
Imagine promoting various products—developing ad campaigns that create the buzz needed to attract customers for these products. Such is the job of public relations specialists. Find out what is involved by viewing a short video about...
PBS
Documenting the Dust Bowl
Paul Taylor's interviews and Dorothea Lange's photographs bring to life the unimaginable devastation of the Dust Bowl. After watching a short video from PBS, viewers are asked to imagine how they would react, whether they would stay or...
University of North Carolina
Comparing/Contrasting
Comparing and contrasting goes beyond beyond obvious differences—it includes critical thinking skills, too! Through a short video, writers learn how to organize ideas within a compare/contrast paper. The video highlights different styles...
University of North Carolina
Proofreading
How does proofreading differ from revising or editing a paper? A short video explains the importance of proofreading and offers a few key strategies to help writers become better proofreaders. The video contains think-alouds to help...
Crash Course
Papers and Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9
Your research paper is due tomorrow, and you're staring at the dreaded blank screen. How can you avoid this problem next time? Watch a short, informative video on writing papers and essays to review the importance of the writing process...
TV411
Whip up a Storm of Writing Ideas
Need a key to unlock writer's block? Introduce your writers to four easy steps that will release them from their mental prison. The brainstorming worksheet, designed to set free their imaginations, even has an answer key.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Big 3: Introduction, Body, Conclusion
This tutorial begins with a YouTube video of a brief description of the process of writing an essay using geometric shapes to explain each section. The rest is informational text using an amusing school protest as the topic example to...
Other
Editing the Future
Here are videos, PowerPoint presentations and stories about what editors do, and what they will need to do in the future. Great for career exploration and discussion of how editing has changed and will change as the world of news...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy
This screencast offers several methods to help readers spot and fix redundancy in their writing. She discusses why concise writing is important, and specific ways to edit for a more expressive, concise text. Includes short quiz. [3:32]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Proofreading: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces the concept of proofreading. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Proofreading." [3:22]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Substantive Editing
A slideshow intriducing the concept of substantive editing through a series of questions the writer can ask him/herself during the editing process.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Meeting the Assignment
This video lesson discusses reviewing a composition to ensure that it meets the assignment. [9:00]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Reading Out Loud
This video lesson discusses the benefits of reading a composition out loud as an editing technique. [7:55]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Levels of Editing
This slide show tutorial introduces the four levels of editing: global, substantive, local, and proofreading.