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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...
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Sophia: The Impact of Imagery
This lesson focuses on the impact of imagery in writing by adding "umph" to the text and engaging the audiences' five senses. It uses an example of a passage from "Wuthering Heights" and then the same passage with most of the imagery...
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Sophia: The Passive Voice
This screencast [2:25] defines passive voice, offers reasons for its use, explains how to write using it, and provides examples throughout. It also offers links to more information about passive voice.
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Sophia: The Passive Voice vs the Active Voice
This screencast focuses on voice including the difference between active and passive voice, why active voice is preferred, and when it is acceptable to use passive voice. Links to more resources are also provided. Real Player is required
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Sophia: Transition Words
This tutorial focuses on the use of transition words in writing. It provides 3 videos: the first offers a list of contrasting transition words signaling a change in reasoning with examples; the second provides a list of transitions...
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Sophia: Types of Bibliographies
This lesson provides a review of the 5 types of bibliographies: general bibliography, annotated bibliography, working bibliography, MLA works cited, and APA reference page. It discusses the similarities of all bibliographies, the...
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Sophia: Types of Bibliographies
This video lesson focuses on types of bibliographies, their purposes, and similarities and differences. It lists and explains the 4 types of bibliographies: bibliography, annotated bibliography, working bibliography, and Works Cited (MLA...
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Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on the purposes of topic sentences and how to write effective ones. It provides 2 videos: the first reviews the two purposes of a topic sentence, and the second shows how to write an effective topic sentence. Real...
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Sophia: Writing Margin Notes
This video lesson focuses on margin notes including the definition, purpose, how to write, what to include, and a literary example showing what they look like. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Adjective Clauses
This video lesson focuses on adjective clauses; it defines them, lists their signal words, and tells what questions they answer. It also explains restrictive and non-restrictive adjective clauses and how to punctuate them. Real Player is...
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Sophia: Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns
This screencast defines adjective clauses and relative pronouns. It provides a chart showing which relative pronoun to use with subjective, objective, and possessive case based on what the pronoun is referencing.
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Sophia: Adverb Clauses
This video lesson focuses on adverb clauses; it defines them, tells what questions they answer, discusses their need for subordinate conjunctions, their locations in sentences, and how to punctuate them correctly. [2:16]
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Sophia: Adverbs
This video tutorial focuses on adverbs: it explains what adverbs modify, what questions they answer, and provides examples of their use in sentences. [2:52]
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Sophia: Annotated Bibliographies: Web 2.0 Style
This tutorial focuses on annotated bibliographies of online resources using Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites, particularly Diigo.com. The author discusses how and why to annotate bibliographies for a research project and how and why to...
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Sophia: Annotated Bibliography Statements of Intent
This video lesson focuses on writing a statement of intent for a research project. It defines statement of intent, tells where it is located, what it includes, and how to write it using clear and concise language. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Anticipating and Responding to Readers' Questions
This tutorial focuses on audiences and anticipating and responding to their questions using 2 videos. The first video focuses on determining, defining, and discussing real, intended, general, and specific audiences and also audience...
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Sophia: Anticipating a Reader's Questions for Academic Writing
This screencast focuses on the need for and the importance of anticipating the reader's questions and answering them. It offers possible questions the reader could have, ways to answer questions well, and questions the writer should ask...
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Sophia: Apostrophe: A Literary Device
This video lesson focuses on apostrophe, a literary device (not the punctuation mark). It explains that apostrophe is used in literature to create conversations between a character and an absent or dead person or a non-human entity and...
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Sophia: Appropriateness of Sentence Fragments
This video lesson focuses on the appropriateness of sentence fragments in writing. It discusses acceptable uses of sentence fragments: to respond to a question, for emphasis, to create an exclamation, and in advertising. The basic rule...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers
This video lesson explains the purpose of argumentative papers and the construction of paper as follows: thesis states claim, evidence supports claim, identify counterargument, evidence refutes counterargument, and conclusion restates...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers
This video lesson focuses on argumentative papers; it begins by defining argument and an argumentative paper including its purpose. It then discusses what is included in an argumentative paper: a thesis statement showing topic and...
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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...
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Sophia: Argumentative Writing: Identifying the Audience
This lesson focuses on identifying and considering your audience in argumentative writing. It discusses the real vs. the intended audience, general and specific audiences, and the target audience. It suggest that you consider your...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Key Elements
This lesson focuses on the key elements of argumentative writing. It lists and defines the key terms: claim, opposing argument, evidence, and call to action. These are also the key elements which are discussed individually including what...