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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,...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Opposing Arguments
This video lesson focuses on how to oppose the counter argument in an argumentative paper. It discusses the purpose of argumentative writing, and how to refute, acknowledge, understand, defuse, and honor the opposing argument in an...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Topic and Thesis
This video lesson focuses on choosing a topic and thesis for argumentative papers. It suggests using webs or flow charts to select a topic and narrow its focus, and it explains how to take your topic and turn it into a thesis that is...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Topics and Thesis
This lesson focuses on selecting a topic and writing a thesis for an argumentative paper. It explains the purpose of argumentative writing, lists the aspects of a strong topic, suggests ways to find a topic, discusses the purpose and...
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Sophia: Asking Prereading Questions
This lesson focuses on prereading questions including their purpose, the three forms of questions, and examples. It uses the novel "The Great Gatsby" as an example. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Avoiding Plagiarism
This tutorial focuses on plagiarism and how to avoid it. It defines plagiarism, explains intentional and unintentional plagiarism and gives examples of both, and discusses how to avoid it by using citations, quotation marks, paraphrase,...
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Sophia: Writing Effective Body Paragraphs
This screencast focuses on how to write effect body paragraphs including the following: purpose, general outline, background information, topic sentence, multiple pieces of supporting evidence, analysis of the evidence, and conclusion...
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Sophia: Introducing and Referencing Quotes
This lesson focuses on documenting long and short quotations using both MLA and APA styles. It provides a video that demonstrates how to use a quote in a sentence with your own words and how to document it using MLA formatting. It also...
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Sophia: Research Questions
This video lesson focuses on research questions including the definition, purposes, how it helps the research project, how to choose one, sample research questions, and how to narrow the focus. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Editing Techniques: Electronic Grammar and Spell Check
This video lesson teaches students how to set up the electronic grammar check in Microsoft Word, how it works, how to fix the errors it finds, and what types of errors it will not find.
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Sophia: Parallel Structure
This video lesson focuses on parallel structure in sentences; it defines parallelism and explains why it is important. It then discusses several example sentences showing how to make them parallel: items in a series, phrases, word pairs,...
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Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs
This video lesson focuses using parallel structure in pairs of words, prepositional phrases, infinitives, and subordinate clauses, when connected by coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, etc.) or correlative conjunctions (neither/nor,...
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Sophia: Informational Papers
This tutorial offers 6 videos focuses on writing informative papers; the first video includes general information and the three requirements of all informative papers. The next 5 videos explain one of the following types of informative...
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Sophia: Tracking Comprehension
This lesson focuses on strategies for tracking comprehension while reading. It provides three main strategies: summarizing, chunking, and glossing. It explains each in step-by-step fashion using both text and audio.
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Sophia: Support Your Answer
This lesson focuses on using textual support when answering reading comprehension questions. Using a question from "Romeo and Juliet", this lesson offers tips as to how to set up a response to a question, find the text support, and use...
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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...
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Sophia: Real and Intended Audiences
This video lesson focuses on audience: real and intended. It defines each term and explains how to tailor writing for the intended audience while keeping in mind the real audience. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Note Taking: Concept Maps and Flow Charts
This tutorial focuses on the use of graphic organizers for note taking and prewriting. I offers a video showing various graphic organizers and their uses. It also provides a slideshow with copies of the same organizers covered in the...
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Sophia: Adverbs 3
This lesson focuses on adverbs including defining them and discussing their purpose and importance. It explains the questions answered by adverbs and provides examples. Includes video. [1:53]
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Sophia: Adjectives
This video lesson [1:59] defines and discusses adjectives, including the 4 questions they can answer.
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Sophia: Brackets
A screencast lesson introducing brackets and explaining their proper use through examples. [3:30]
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Sophia: Colons and Semicolons
This lesson focuses on colons and semicolons; it explains the difference between colons and semicolons and their purposes. It discusses the purposes and uses of the colon with examples of each; it also discusses the purposes and uses of...
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Sophia: Comma Splices and Run Ons
A screencast lesson defining comma splices and run-on sentences and explaining different ways to correct them. [3:16]
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Sophia: Commas in a Series
This lesson focuses on using commas in a series; it defines series and offers examples of series of words and series of phrases. It discusses the need for parallel construction of the items in a series and how to punctuate them...