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Sophia: Commonly Confused Words
This lesson focuses on a list of commonly confuses words such as as/like, less/fewer, further/farther, than/then, that/which, amount/number, etc. It explains the differences in the meanings of the words and how to use them correctly....
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Sophia: Commonly Misused Words
This video lesson focuses on commonly misused words by offering tips to avoid misusing words, It also provides a list of 14 commonly misused words with their correct and incorrect meanings: ambivalent, aggravate, anxious, continuous,...
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Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Transition Words
This screencast focuses on comparison transition words (showing similarities) and contrast transition words (showing differences). It provides lists of each and examples showing how to use them in sentences. Links to other resources for...
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Sophia: Complex Sentences
This video lesson focuses on complex sentences including defining them, identifying them, and providing examples including how to punctuate them. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences
This video lesson focuses on defining, recognizing, and writing compound-complex sentences. It includes tips for identifying dependent clauses, and how to form and punctuate compound-complex sentences. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Compound Sentences
This video lesson focuses on compound sentences including what they are, how they are formed, using coordinating conjunctions, using conjunctive adverbs, and how to punctuate compound sentences. She also discusses avoiding comma splices....
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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: Character vs. Self
This tutorial focuses on self-conflict in fiction writing through a screencast. It defines character vs. self, examines its purpose in literature, and provides examples like the classic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Dangling Modifiers
This lesson focuses on dangling modifiers including defining them, identifying them, viewing examples, and correcting them. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Descriptive Papers: The Thesis
This video lesson details how to write a thesis for a descriptive paper including what is required: identifying the subject being described, providing the perspective/stance, and the reasons or point of the description. It also provides...
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Sophia: Determining Your Audience
A series of four screencasts explaining the importance of audience. Students learn the difference between the real audience and the audience the writer intends, how to create a specific audience instead of a general audience, how the...
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Sophia: Developing Research Questions
This YouTube video lesson focuses on developing research questions by choosing topics of personal interest; filtering them for theme, time, and place; and choosing questions that are debatable, plausible, and consequential.
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Sophia: Economic Basics: Supply and Demand Tutorial
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the laws of supply and demand straight to your fingertips with this brief lesson.
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Sophia: Economic Indicators
Series of videos reviews essential economic concepts including price inflation, Consumer Price Index, Gross Domestic Product, and unemployment rates.
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Sophia: Effective Word Choice
This video lesson focuses on effective word choice in writing; it discusses word order, usage, and the need to consider the audience. It explains the need to avoid redundancy and wordiness. It demonstrates how to do this using a student...
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Sophia: Emphasis: Ending a Sentence Strategically
This video lesson focuses on creating emphasis by placing main idea at the end of the sentence. It offers two strategies to create emphasis: trimming excess words from the end of sentences and putting the main ideas in main clauses at...
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Sophia: Flow
This video lesson focuses on the flow of a paper; it defines flow and explains how to use the natural order of ideas and details and smooth transitions to create a cohesive paper.
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Sophia: Flow: Nature and Benefits
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the concept of flow sraight to your fingertips. [5:57]
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Sophia: Flow: Simplicity to Complexity
This video lesson focuses on the flow of essay writing from simple and general to complex and specific. The introduction begins simple and general until it reaches the thesis where it becomes more complex. The specifics continue through...
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Sophia: Forms of Energy
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the forms of energy straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this energy tutorial. [4:00]
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Sophia: The Future Real Conditional Tense
This lesson defines and demonstrates the use of the future real conditional verb tense which requires the word "will" and the base form of the verb in present tense and usually includes an "if" statement. Real Player is required.
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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...
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Sophia: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial provides two videos focusing on using headings and subheadings in paper writing: the first video discusses the purpose and when to use them; the second discusses how to format them. Textual information is also provided...
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Sophia: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial focuses on headings and subheadings in papers; it provides textual information on headings, subheading, and general tips and suggestions for their use. It also offers a YouTube video demonstrating, in step-by-step fashion,...