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Reading an Autobiography
This video discusses the components of an autobiography and how to critically read works in the genre.
The Business Professor
Informative Communications
An informative message in the workplace is simply the sharing of meaningful information between people in an unbiased and professional manner.
The Business Professor
Amicus Curiae
An amicus curiae is an individual or organization who is not a party to a legal case, but who is permitted to assist a court by offering information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case. The decision on...
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Informative Writing
Miss Palomine explains to the student that aside from writing for entertainment, writing can also be done to provide information. She introduces informative writing by reading excerpts from a book about seahorses, a book about...
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Expository Writing
Expository Writing explains the concept of informational writing by citing the characteristics and describing the purpose of expository text.
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Author’s Purpose
Author’s Purpose determines the importance of writing for purpose by reading passages and identifying the author’s purpose for writing.
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Author’s Purpose Types
Author’s Purpose Types explores the three types of author’s purpose: to entertain, to persuade, and to inform.
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Intended Audience
Intended Audience explores the importance of keeping the intended audience in mind when writing by identifying types of audiences.
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Nonfiction
This video discusses the nonfiction genre as well as qualities, types of pieces, and characteristics of the genre.
Learn French With Alexa
How to turn a French noun into a verb & vice versa | Nominalisation in French
French grammar can be confusing! Nominalisation is the process of taking a French verb and transforming it into a noun. Here are some examples of nominalisation in French.
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Learning From The Past
Harvard University historian David Armitage discusses the question of how the past can be used to shape today’s policy, describing how policymakers should not only try to avoid making the same mistakes, but also consider worthy roads not...
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Establishing Purpose and Organizing Ideas
Students will learn how to choose a purpose for their own writing by organizing their own essay ideas.
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Facts, Definitions, Details, and Quotations
Facts, Definitions, Details, and Quotations provides facts, definitions, details, and quotations on a given topic by completing a graphic organizer.
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Delivering a Speech
In this video the student will learn techniques for delivering a speech.
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Informational: Problem/Solution
“Informational: Problem/Solution” video lesson explores informational texts, focusing on the problem and solution structure and explaining how to identify problems and solutions in texts.
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Best Practice use of Media When Teaching Civics
Educators share their tips and tricks for successfully using media in their social studies classes when teaching civics.
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Author’s Point of View
“Author’s Point of View” explores how to determine an author's point of view when reading a nonfiction passage.
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Author's Purpose
Learning authorś purpose with this video is as easy as pie! This is an interactive video to teach students how to determine the author´s purpose of the text: Persuade, Inform, or Entertain.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Public Health Surveillance
Public health surveillance is about more than just infectious disease epidemiology. It can include health surveillance on non-communicable disease, health service usage etc. Importantly it is about how health data is collected and...
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Questions: They Are Everywhere
A video entitled “Asking Important Questions” demonstrates how to ask questions about an explanation.
Teaching Without Frills
How to Evaluate Sources for Reliability - Writing for Kids
In this video, you will learn how to choose the most reliable sources when researching a topic for a research paper. We will define reliable sources, discuss the author's impact on reliability (purpose, bias, and potential agenda),...
Science ABC
What Is Common Sense… Really?
One of the simplest ways to intuitively understand what "common sense" means is by dividing it into two words – “common” and “sense.” “Common” implies that there is something available to everyone that can be freely used by common people...
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R Programming for Statistics and Data Science - R-Squared
This video explains R-squared. This clip is from the chapter "Linear Regression Analysis" of the series "R Programming for Statistics and Data Science".This section explains linear regression analysis.
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MORE Phrases For Formal Emails - Business English
"This is Part 2 of a lesson on formal email phrases for professional correspondence. The first video can be found under: ""21 Phrases For Formal Emails - Business English"" Some examples from this lesson: Asking for clarification - Would...