Sophia Learning
Sophia: General and Specific Audiences
This video lesson focuses on analyzing your audience and tailoring your writing to it. It discusses the 4 types of audiences: real, intended, general, and specific; it explains how to choose writing styles such as tone, vocabulary, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising a Thesis Statement
This video lesson focuses on revising and editing your paper, especially your thesis statement. It outlines a 3-step process in which the writer reads and answers specific questions about the body of the paper, then answers questions...
Sophia Learning
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.
Sophia Learning
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: Evaluating Scholarly Research
Identify and discuss variables (in abstract), method used, potential sources of bias/confounding variables, and the analysis used.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Body Paragraphs
This lesson introduces body paragraphs. [3:41] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.b
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Develop Counterclaims Fairly and Thoroughly
In this lesson, you will learn how to develop a counterclaim fairly and thoroughly by supplying the most relevant evidence and considering readers' knowledge and biases. [5:47]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Draft a Strong Concluding Paragraph
In this lesson, you will learn how to draft a strong concluding paragraph by rephrasing your thesis and significant claims. [5:29]
Crash Course
Crash Course Statistics #10: Sampling Methods and Bias With Surveys
This episode talks about good and bad surveys. From user feedback surveys, telephone polls, and those questionnaires at your doctor's office, surveys are everywhere, but with their ease to create and distribute, they're also susceptible...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Persuasive Technologies
How can devices, environments, or computer programs be designed to change how people behave? We'll talk about the field of 'persuasive technology.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Methods: Lesson 5
This lesson will explore research methods, delineate the steps of the scientific method. It will also discuss experiments, survey research, focus groups, participant observation and using secondary sources for analysis. It is 5 of 9 in...
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Sophia: Research Methods: Lesson 2
This lesson will introduce guidelines for scientific research, as well as common research methods in the field of psychology. It is 2 of 9 in the series titled "Research Methods."
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Sophia: Research Questions: Lesson 3
In this lesson, different types of questions useful when conducting research are discussed. It is 3 of 6 in the series titled "Research Questions."
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Sophia: Research Questions and Scope
This lesson discusses how to determine the appropriate scope for a research question. [11:43] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8.