Curated Video
Eliminating Wordiness and Redundancy in Writing
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of eliminating wordiness and redundancy in writing. They provide examples and guide students through the process of revising sentences and paragraphs to make them more concise and precise.
Curated Video
Removing Empty Words: Writing with Conciseness and Precision
This video is a writing lesson that teaches students how to remove empty words like "this," "that," and "there" from their writing to make it more concise and precise. The teacher provides examples and guides students through the process...
Sophia Learning
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...
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Clarity: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses the goal of clarity in writing. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Clarity." W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion