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Sophia: Common Errors in Introductions
A screencast lesson explaining common errors when writing an introduction and how to avoid them. [8:19]
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Sophia: Common Issues With Homophones
This lesson focuses on homophones: words that sound the same, but have different meanings. First it explains the differences between homonyms and homophones; then it looks at a list of commonly confused homophones, their meanings, and,...
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Sophia: Comparing Genres
A video lesson demonstrating how to compare various fiction genres. [7:25]
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Sophia: Compound Words: When to Use a Hyphen
This video lesson focuses on compound words and the rules for when to hyphenate them. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Concise Language
A screencast lesson discussing the difference between wordy and concise writing and explaining various ways of making writing more concise. [2:15]
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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]
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Sophia: Concise Language: Stating the Obvious
A screencast explaining the importance of removing obvious information from writing and providing several examples of obvious statements that could be eliminated. [2:52]
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Sophia: Conclusions
A video lesson explaining the purpose and structure of a conclusion to an essay. [4:39]
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Sophia: Character vs. Character
This tutorial uses a screencast to present a lesson on character vs. character conflict. It defines character vs. character conflict, explores its roles in literature, and provides specific examples such as "Beowulf" and "Othello." Real...
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Sophia: Conflict: Character vs. Society
This video lesson focuses on the external conflict of character vs. society including defining it, presenting background information and its role in literature, and discussing two literary examples: "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Stranger...
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Sophia: Conjunctions
This lesson focuses on conjunctions; there are four types of conjunctions: correlative, subordinate, coordinate, and conjunctive adverbs. It explains the uses for, provides a list of, gives examples of, and discusses punctuation for each...
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Sophia: Connotation
This video lesson focuses on the word connotation. It defines the term and discusses the impact connotation can have on an audience. It looks at the dictionary definitions of three words: course, class, and field, and uses their synonyms...
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Sophia: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
A list of terms and examples followed by three videos on how modifiers function within a sentence [2:53], how to identify and correct dangling modifiers [10:15], and how to identify and correct misplaced modifiers. [7:28]
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Sophia: Describing Style
This tutorial focuses on describing an author's style. It explains the five main elements constituting style: syntax, diction, punctuation, sensory details, and literary/rhetorical devices. It lists nine common writing styles and gives...
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Sophia: Emphasis: Framing
A video lesson explaining how to use sentence framing to emphasize a specific sentence or idea. [3:46]
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Sophia: Euphemisms
This is a screencast which defines and gives background information for why and how euphemisms are used, gives lists of euphemisms and their meanings, tells when to use euphemisms, and provides links to more information and lists of...
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Sophia: Euphony
Notes introducing and providing examples of euphony. Examples are provided from "The Duchess and the Jeweler" by Virginia Woolf and "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Evaluating a Research Question
A video lesson discussing how to evaluate a research question to see if it is relevant. [11:59] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8
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Sophia: Exclamation Point
A screencast lesson introducing exclamation points and discussing how to use them appropriately with words and sentences. Examples of appropriate and inappropriate uses are provided. [5:25]
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Sophia: Expletives
Notes introducing expletives and demonstrating how they can be used as a rhetorical device. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Formal and Informal Language
This screencast focuses on formal and informal language and when each is appropriate. It offers definitions and situational examples for each. [2:42] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.d
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Sophia: Future Perfect Tense
A video lesson explaining the future perfect verb tense, how it is formed, and how it can be utilized within a sentence. [3:38]
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Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives
A screencast lesson defining a verbal, gerund, and infinitive and explaining the correct usage of both gerunds and infinitives. Examples of each are provided. [6:19]
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Sophia: Hyphens
This screencast provides the rules for using hyphens and links to other resources with more examples of hyphen use. Real Player is required.