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Streamlining Your Research Notes: Deleting Repeated Information
In this video, the teacher explains how to simplify your notes before writing a research paper by deleting repeated information. The steps include reviewing your notes, identifying repeated information, deleting it, and combining similar...
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Supporting an Opinion with Strong Reasons and Evidence
This video is a lesson on how to support an opinion with strong reasons by adding evidence, such as facts and details. It provides examples and guidance on how to make your reasons clear and based on facts, ultimately making your opinion...
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Choosing a Topic for an Argumentative Essay: Exploring Issues that Affect Your Life
In this video, the teacher guides students on how to choose a topic for an argumentative essay. They emphasize the importance of selecting a topic that they have a lot to say about and that affects their lives. The teacher provides...
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Creating Strong Endings: How to Leave the Audience with Strong Feelings
In this video lesson, the teacher guides students on how to create strong endings for their narratives by effectively conveying their emotions. The teacher explains the five steps of the writing process and provides a specific example of...
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Revising Your Essay to Target Your Audience
This video provides a concise lesson on how to revise an argumentative essay to effectively target and convince the intended audience. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the audience and tailoring the essay accordingly, using...
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Revise Your Opinion Statements for a Stronger Purpose
Writers revise their opinion to give it a strong purpose. Let's practice making sure our writing reflects that purpose when we revise an opinion statement.
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Developing Lifelike Characters through Description
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using description to develop lifelike characters in writing. The teacher guides students through a practice activity where they circle words that describe a character in a picture....
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Half Past Autumn
Transcript of an interview with Gordon Parks in which he discusses his life, career, and works in a variety of art forms.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Kerouac's "On the Road"
The legend and the reality of the way Jack Kerouac wrote "On the Road," and eventually "Went to bed obscure and woke up famous."
Other
Ministere De La Culture
Web site of the French Ministry of Culture features recordings of some of Malraux's speeches.
Other
Doris Lessing: Fresh Air
Real Audio archive recording of Terry Gross interviewing the novelist Doris Lessing, May 31, 1988 on the subject of marriage.