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Sophia: Brackets
This video lesson focuses on square brackets and the rules for their use when writing direct quotations. Real Player s required.
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers
This video lesson focuses on cause and effect papers. It begins by defining the terms and purpose for cause and effect writing and then moves on to planning, organizing, and writing the paper. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Key Elements
This video lesson focuses on the key elements of cause and effect writing. It explains the purposes of cause and effect writing, discusses the basics elements: causes, effects, the chain of events, and the take-home message. It also...
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition
This lesson focuses on cause and effect transition words. It explains why transitions are needed, provides a list of cause and effect transition words, and offers examples showing their locations and how to use them in sentences. Real...
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Sophia: Classification Papers
This video tutorial focuses on a type of informative writing called classification papers. It defines classification writing, provides an organization pattern for the material, and offers a general outline for classification papers.
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Sophia: Classification Papers: Thesis
This video lesson focuses on developing a thesis statement for classification papers. It discusses the common elements of all thesis statements; then what must be included in the thesis for classification paper specifically: the subject...
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Sophia: Colons and Semicolons
This video lesson focuses on the rules for using colons and semicolons including what they do and where they go.
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Sophia: Common Errors in Introductions
This video lesson focuses on writing introductions and common issues with introductions. It discusses the use of details and information -- too much or not enough and being off topic. It suggests using specific language in the...
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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...
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Sophia: Common Issues With Homophones
This lesson focuses on homophones; it defines the term and then discusses and provides examples for 9 word sets as follows: sea, bare, there, site, know, two, plain, be, and eye. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Commonly Confused Words
This lesson focuses on a list of commonly confuses words such as as/like, less/fewer, further/farther, than/then, that/which, amount/number, etc. It explains the differences in the meanings of the words and how to use them correctly....
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Sophia: Commonly Misused Words
This video lesson focuses on commonly misused words by offering tips to avoid misusing words, It also provides a list of 14 commonly misused words with their correct and incorrect meanings: ambivalent, aggravate, anxious, continuous,...
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Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Transition Words
This screencast focuses on comparison transition words (showing similarities) and contrast transition words (showing differences). It provides lists of each and examples showing how to use them in sentences. Links to other resources for...
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Sophia: Complex Sentences
This video lesson focuses on complex sentences including defining them, identifying them, and providing examples including how to punctuate them. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences
This video lesson focuses on defining, recognizing, and writing compound-complex sentences. It includes tips for identifying dependent clauses, and how to form and punctuate compound-complex sentences. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Compound Sentences
This video lesson focuses on compound sentences including what they are, how they are formed, using coordinating conjunctions, using conjunctive adverbs, and how to punctuate compound sentences. She also discusses avoiding comma splices....
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Sophia: Concise Language: Reframing Negatives
This screencast focuses on more concise writing by identifying and reframing negative phrases into positive statements. Rewriting "not" statements into positive statements makes writing more concise. Real Player is required. L.11-12.3a...
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Sophia: Character vs. Self
This tutorial focuses on self-conflict in fiction writing through a screencast. It defines character vs. self, examines its purpose in literature, and provides examples like the classic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Dangling Modifiers
This lesson focuses on dangling modifiers including defining them, identifying them, viewing examples, and correcting them. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Descriptive Papers: The Thesis
This video lesson details how to write a thesis for a descriptive paper including what is required: identifying the subject being described, providing the perspective/stance, and the reasons or point of the description. It also provides...
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Sophia: Developing Research Questions
This YouTube video lesson focuses on developing research questions by choosing topics of personal interest; filtering them for theme, time, and place; and choosing questions that are debatable, plausible, and consequential.
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Sophia: Effective Word Choice
This video lesson focuses on effective word choice in writing; it discusses word order, usage, and the need to consider the audience. It explains the need to avoid redundancy and wordiness. It demonstrates how to do this using a student...
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Sophia: Emphasis: Ending a Sentence Strategically
This video lesson focuses on creating emphasis by placing main idea at the end of the sentence. It offers two strategies to create emphasis: trimming excess words from the end of sentences and putting the main ideas in main clauses at...
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Sophia: Flow
This video lesson focuses on the flow of a paper; it defines flow and explains how to use the natural order of ideas and details and smooth transitions to create a cohesive paper.