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Sophia: Flow: Simplicity to Complexity
This video lesson focuses on the flow of essay writing from simple and general to complex and specific. The introduction begins simple and general until it reaches the thesis where it becomes more complex. The specifics continue through...
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Sophia: The Future Real Conditional Tense
This lesson defines and demonstrates the use of the future real conditional verb tense which requires the word "will" and the base form of the verb in present tense and usually includes an "if" statement. Real Player is required.
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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...
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Sophia: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial provides two videos focusing on using headings and subheadings in paper writing: the first video discusses the purpose and when to use them; the second discusses how to format them. Textual information is also provided...
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Sophia: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial focuses on headings and subheadings in papers; it provides textual information on headings, subheading, and general tips and suggestions for their use. It also offers a YouTube video demonstrating, in step-by-step fashion,...
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Sophia: Highlighting Shifts in Topic and Point of View
This tutorial focuses on shifts in topic and point of view in writing using two videos. The first video defines shifts in writing, how to indicate a shift in topic by using transition words, subheadings, or a change in font, how to...
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Sophia: How to Read a Writing Assignment
This video lesson focuses on how to read and understand a writing assignment. It begins by defining keywords used in assignments: analyze, compare and contrast, evaluate, describe, and propose. Then using a sample assignment, it...
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Sophia: Hyperbaton
This lesson focuses on the rhetorical device hyperbaton, changing traditional word order for emphasis. It defines hyperbaton, explains why it is used, provides examples, and practice. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Identifying Genre
This video lesson focuses on identifying genre. It explains how looking at the following basic characteristics can help to determine gene: setting, stock characters, basic events, symbolism, length of work, and development of characters....
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Sophia: Identifying Symbols
This video lesson focuses on identifying symbols in fiction writing; symbols suggest meaning and should be noticeable in the text. It discusses a three-step method for identifying them.
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Sophia: Identifying the Conflict Type
This video lesson focuses on identifying the conflict type in a literary work; the two basic types of conflict are internal and external. External conflict types include character vs. character, nature, society, or supernatural forces;...
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Sophia: Identifying Setting
This video lesson focuses on identifying setting in a literary work. It discusses aspects of a story that will help identify setting: geographical location, time, social norms, and social circumstances. It also explains general vs....
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Sophia: Informational Writing
This video lesson focuses on informational writing including the definition, what to include, and what to leave out. W.9-10.2 Informative CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2, W.11-12.2 Informative
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Sophia: Introducing and Referencing Quotes
This tutorial focuses on introducing and referencing short and long quotations using both MLA and APA style formats. Each style is presented separately using text for information concerning short quotations and a video for long...
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Sophia: Introductions
This video lesson focuses on introductions including the role of an introduction and what it includes. It discusses the length, and methods to hook the reader, and how to make a strong introduction. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Judgements
This video lesson focuses on judgements by first defining it as arriving at an opinion or evaluation about something. Then it looks at the difference between evaluation and judgement, and the place of judgement in writing. Real Player is...
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Sophia: List Style Comparison/contrast Papers
This tutorial focuses on how to write a list style comparison/contrast essay using a step-by-step video demonstration of how to write one. It starts at the beginning with brainstorming topics, choosing organization methods, adding...
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Sophia: Making Passive Voice Active
This screencast explains when and why to use active voice and passive voice in writing and how to change from one voice form to the other. It also includes links to additional web resources for changing voices. [3:08]
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Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This video lesson focuses on changing passive voice sentences into active voice. It begins by asking students to think of sentences as a parking lot with reserved spaces for parts. It shows active voice sentences as SVO order and passive...
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Sophia: Mla Bibliography: General Format
This video lesson explains the general format for an MLA bibliography using books as examples. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Mla Bibliography: Interview Sources
This screencast focuses on how to cite interview sources using MLA style. It includes various types of interviews: personal, phone, online, published, broadcasts, etc. and specially how each type should be cited. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Narrative Key Elements
This video lesson focuses on the key elements of writing a narrative: point of view, tone, reflective statement, pacing, emphasis, and cohesion. W.9-10.3,3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives, W.11-12.3,3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives
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Sophia: Note Taking: Cornell Notes
This video lesson focuses on the Cornell note taking method. It details the page set up, explains what types of information are placed in each of the columns, and offers note taking tips.
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Sophia: Note Taking: Note Card Systems
This video lesson focuses on note taking, using note cards to gather and organize information for a research project. It gives steps to follow, tips, and examples. Real Player is required.