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Sophia: Annotated Bibliographies: Web 2.0 Style
This tutorial focuses on annotated bibliographies of online resources using Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites, particularly Diigo.com. The author discusses how and why to annotate bibliographies for a research project and how and why to...
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Sophia: Annotated Bibliography Statements of Intent
This video lesson focuses on writing a statement of intent for a research project. It defines statement of intent, tells where it is located, what it includes, and how to write it using clear and concise language. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Anticipating and Responding to Readers' Questions
This tutorial focuses on audiences and anticipating and responding to their questions using 2 videos. The first video focuses on determining, defining, and discussing real, intended, general, and specific audiences and also audience...
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Sophia: Anticipating a Reader's Questions for Academic Writing
This screencast focuses on the need for and the importance of anticipating the reader's questions and answering them. It offers possible questions the reader could have, ways to answer questions well, and questions the writer should ask...
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Sophia: Apostrophe: A Literary Device
This video lesson focuses on apostrophe, a literary device (not the punctuation mark). It explains that apostrophe is used in literature to create conversations between a character and an absent or dead person or a non-human entity and...
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Sophia: Appropriateness of Sentence Fragments
This video lesson focuses on the appropriateness of sentence fragments in writing. It discusses acceptable uses of sentence fragments: to respond to a question, for emphasis, to create an exclamation, and in advertising. The basic rule...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers
This video lesson explains the purpose of argumentative papers and the construction of paper as follows: thesis states claim, evidence supports claim, identify counterargument, evidence refutes counterargument, and conclusion restates...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers
This video lesson focuses on argumentative papers; it begins by defining argument and an argumentative paper including its purpose. It then discusses what is included in an argumentative paper: a thesis statement showing topic and...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Identifying the Audience
This video lesson focuses on analyzing your audience in an argumentative paper. It offers a series of questions to consider about your audience and what may convince them to agree with your argument. It also provides an example of how to...
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Sophia: Argumentative Writing: Identifying the Audience
This lesson focuses on identifying and considering your audience in argumentative writing. It discusses the real vs. the intended audience, general and specific audiences, and the target audience. It suggest that you consider your...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Key Elements
This lesson focuses on the key elements of argumentative writing. It lists and defines the key terms: claim, opposing argument, evidence, and call to action. These are also the key elements which are discussed individually including what...
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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...