PBS
Career Connections | Human Resource Manager
Human resource managers wear many hats, from recruiting, to training job applicants, to protecting workers. A short video looks at some of the many roles played by the HR staff.
TED-Ed
Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?
Humans have become addicted to fossil fuels. From pumping oil into our cars, to burning natural gas to heat our water, or using coal to create electricity that lights our homes, we are constantly relying on these nonrenewable resources....
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming 12: The Appositive
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has an appositive phrase.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming Exercise
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to diagram a sentence.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Parsing a Sentence: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to analyze the different words' functions within a complex sentence.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Appositive and Punctuation: English Grammar, Language
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how punctuate appositive phrases. [8:05]
Sophia Learning
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...
Sophia Learning
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]
Sophia Learning
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]
Sophia Learning
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]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rambling Sentences
This lesson [4:18] goes over how to recognize and correct sentences that are overly long. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Eliminate Wordiness and Redundancy
Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy. [7:44]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Qualifiers and Intensifiers: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses limiting qualifying phrases and intensifiers in writing. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Concise Language: Qualifiers and Intensifiers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Wordiness: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over how to reduce wordiness in writing. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Concise Language: Wordiness." Includes short quiz. [3:00]