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Curated Video
Collecting Evidence to Support Your Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to gather evidence to support an argumentative essay. They discuss the importance of having strong evidence and provide examples of different types of evidence, such as observations, statistics,...
Curated Video
Organizing Information for an Argumentative Essay: Using Boxes and Bullets
This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to organize information for an argumentative essay using the technique of boxes and bullets. It highlights the importance of proper organization to avoid conflicting information and...
Curated Video
Organizing Ideas for a Persuasive Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to organize ideas for a persuasive essay using a short plan. They emphasize the importance of staying focused on the thesis statement and avoiding storytelling. The teacher demonstrates the process...
Curated Video
Organizing Ideas and Evidence in a Persuasive Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to make a persuasive opinion essay easy to read by organizing ideas and evidence using paragraph form. The teacher emphasizes the importance of having clear topic sentences and provides examples of...
Wonderscape
Writing Kids: Academic Essay Writing for Beginners
This video provides a clear and concise explanation of the basic structure and components of an essay. It covers the introduction, body, and conclusion, as well as the importance of a thesis statement and topic sentences. The video also...
Curated Video
Organizing Ideas and Evidence in a Persuasive Essay
In this video transcript, the teacher explains how to make a persuasive opinion essay easy to read by organizing ideas and evidence into paragraphs. They discuss the importance of topic sentences and avoiding cramming too much...
Curated Video
Writing a Strong Beginning
In this video, the teacher provides a step-by-step guide on how to write a strong beginning to engage readers. She emphasizes the importance of starting with an interesting story to hook the reader, and including a clear thesis...
Curated Video
How to Write an Interesting Essay: Crafting Supporting Points and a Conclusion
In this video, the teacher explains how to write an interesting essay that fully addresses the prompt. They emphasize the importance of including a conclusion that reminds the reader of the main points discussed. The teacher provides...
Curated Video
Connecting the Parts of Your Persuasive Speech with Transition Words
In this video, the teacher explains how to effectively connect the different parts of a persuasive speech using transition words. The lesson covers the importance of organization and coherence in speech writing, as well as the common...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Classification Papers: Thesis
This video lesson focuses on developing a thesis statement for classification papers. It discusses the common elements of all thesis statements; then what must be included in the thesis for classification paper specifically: the subject...
Sophia Learning
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introductions
This tutorial focuses on how to write the introductory paragraph of a research paper. It provides two YouTube videos: the first explains the three parts of an introduction, their purposes, and an example using the funnel format. The...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Process Papers: Thesis
This video lesson focuses on writing a thesis statement for a process analysis paper. It includes the requirements for all thesis statements, the need to break down the process and evaluate it, a generic thesis starting point, and then...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Big 3: Introduction, Body, Conclusion
This tutorial begins with a YouTube video of a brief description of the process of writing an essay using geometric shapes to explain each section. The rest is informational text using an amusing school protest as the topic example to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Topic and Thesis
This video lesson focuses on choosing a topic and thesis for argumentative papers. It suggests using webs or flow charts to select a topic and narrow its focus, and it explains how to take your topic and turn it into a thesis that is...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Thesis Statements
This lesson introduces how to write a thesis statement. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [04:45] with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Thesis Statements
A screencast lesson [2 mins, 39 secs] defining a thesis statement and outlining five steps to use when creating a strong thesis statement.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Effective Introductions
A screencast lesson discussing and providing examples of three elements required for a strong introduction: an effective hook, a strong thesis, and appropriate background information. [5:39] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Provide an Effective Conclusion
In this lesson, you will learn how to provide an effective conclusion by analyzing your thesis and body paragraphs. [8:19]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Writing a Strong Opening
In this lesson, you will learn how to write a strong beginning by starting with an interesting story to hook the reader and including your thesis. [4:47]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Gather Evidence to Support a Thesis
In this lesson, you will learn how to collect evidence to support your thesis by using observations, statistics, quotations, personal interviews, and questions. [4:41]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Thesis: Lesson 1
This lesson discusses selecting a thesis for a cause and effect paper. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Cause and Effect Papers: Thesis."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparison Papers: Thesis: Lesson 1
This lesson discusses selecting a thesis for a comparison contrast paper. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Comparison Papers: Thesis."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Papers: Lesson 3
This lesson introduces research papers and their goals. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Research Papers."