PBS
Character Study: Scout Finch
Scout Finch, the rough-and-tumble protagonist of Harper Lee's iconic To Kill a Mockingbird, learns quite a bit about how the world works as she observes her father's defense of Tom Robinson. Learn more about Scout and her distinctive...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Conclusions
This video lesson focuses on common issues with conclusions such as simply restating the thesis and summarizing the research. Starting with a simple conclusion, she shows its issues and discusses how to make it show the impact of what...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: General and Specific Audiences
This video lesson focuses on analyzing your audience and tailoring your writing to it. It discusses the 4 types of audiences: real, intended, general, and specific; it explains how to choose writing styles such as tone, vocabulary, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Identifying the Audience
This video lesson focuses on analyzing your audience in an argumentative paper. It offers a series of questions to consider about your audience and what may convince them to agree with your argument. It also provides an example of how to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Opposing Arguments
This video lesson focuses on when and how to address opposing arguments in an argumentative paper. It begins with a warning about acknowledging opposing viewpoints and then offers a method if you choose to do so: build common ground,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Organization
This lesson focuses on the organization of argumentative papers. It discusses the purpose of argumentative papers and the required parts; then it provides the basic organizational pattern for the paper: introduction with a hook for the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Evaluating Scholarly Research
Identify and discuss variables (in abstract), method used, potential sources of bias/confounding variables, and the analysis used.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Anticipating a Reader's Counterarguments
A screen cast lesson explaining how to anticipate when a reader might disagree with the author and how, as an author, to address the counterarguments when writing a persuasive/argumentative piece. [6:48] CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.1,...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Develop Counterclaims Fairly and Thoroughly
In this lesson, you will learn how to develop a counterclaim fairly and thoroughly by supplying the most relevant evidence and considering readers' knowledge and biases. [5:47]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Provide an Effective Conclusion
In this lesson, you will learn how to provide an effective conclusion by analyzing your thesis and body paragraphs. [8:19]
Crash Course
Crash Course Study Skills #9: Papers and Essays
Writing research papers is an essential skill in your career as a student, and this week we're going to help you do that like a pro. From figuring out where to begin to finding the best systems, to breaking out of "research recursion...