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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...
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Eliminating Excess
This video lesson focuses on eliminating wordiness in writing. It offers strategies to make your writing more concise and precise: using precise language, reducing clauses to phrases, removing excess phrasing, and removing words that...
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Sophia: Writing Effective Conclusions
This video lesson focuses on writing conclusions, i.e., what makes an effective conclusion, what to include in a conclusion, and how to write one. [7:44] W.9-10.1e, W.9-10.3e Conclusion, W.11-12.1e Argument Conclusion, W.11-12.2f...
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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."
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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]
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Sophia: Communication
In this tutorial video clip, students will review the importance of basic communication skills. The instructor highlights content to review for real-life communication.