Schooling Online
English Essentials - Next Level Knowledge - 3 Ways to Structure a Comparative Essay (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
In today’s lesson, we’ll show you three different structures for a comparative essay: block, alternating and integrated. We’ll guide you through each of these essay structures using the same question and thesis from our previous lesson....
Curated OER
IELTS Writing Essays 5
Robert Lewis continues to talk about building vocabulary using word maps. Use the five W's to create a diagram to go along with each new vocabulary word.
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IELTS Writing Essays 3 (Part B)
IELTS Writing Essays 3 (Part B) picks up right where Lewis left off in part A: about to examine discussion essays.
Curated OER
IELTS Writing Essays 7
Lewis continues his look at persuasive strategies in writing, especially as they pertain to the IELTS essay. The focus narrows in even more on conjunctions and logic. Typical errors are shown.
Curated OER
IELTS Writing Essays 1
As Robert Lewis explains, this video is directed toward ESL or ELL students who have to write something like the IELTS essay. He covers the basic questions: What is an essay? and How can we write a simple persuasive essay? Definitions...
Curated OER
IELTS Writing Essays 2
Robert Lewis again discusses the IELTS essay, this time focusing on the common mistakes writers make. The camera goes from showing Lewis speaking to examples of essays, but the print is a bit small and not easy to read. It is not...
Curated OER
IELTS Writing Essays 6
Be more persuasive with these strategies! Specific to the IELTS essay, Robert Lewis talks about persuasive techniques, such as using reason and appeal to authority, and how to apply them to your writing.
Sophia Learning
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...
Crash Course
Crash Course World History #39: Usa vs Ussr Fight! The Cold War
In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was occasionally hot, but on average, it was cool. In the sense of its temperature. It was by no means cool, man. After World War II, there were basically two...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Take a Position on a Prompt by Weighing the Evidence
In this lesson, you will learn how to take a position on a prompt by weighing the evidence from each side. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [8:45]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Introduce an Opinion Essay by Hooking the Reader
In this lesson, you will learn how to begin your response by first hooking the reader and then telling them clearly what you will be arguing. [7:39]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Parts of a Persuasive Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the different parts of an essay by labeling the thesis, topic sentence, supporting details and elaboration. [4:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Avoiding Common Mistakes in Historical Essays
Khan Academy's historian Kim Kutz Elliott talks about strategies for improving your historical essays. [9:45]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Formal Should the Tone of Your College Essay Be?
Sarah McGinty, college admissions expert, discusses how formal your college application essay should be and tips on how to bring out your natural voice. [2:48]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Student Story: Admissions Essay About Community Impact
This Khan Academy resource is a video about writing an admissions essay about community impact.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Taking Your College Essay to the Next Level
Hear an admissions expert discuss the appropriate level of depth necessary in your college essay.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Analyze a Writing Prompt to Determine the Purpose of the Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the purpose of an essay by using the action verbs and the subject in a prompt. [3:53]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Different Parts of an Argumentative Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the different parts of an essay by labeling the thesis, topic sentence, supporting details and elaboration. [6:27]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Narratives: Topic
This video tutorial discusses how to select a topic for a narrative and how to use a narrative in an essay. [7:59]
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Top 10 Essay Writing Dont's
This animation features the concept of essay writing and makes recommendations of do's and don'ts to improve the quality of the writing. 3:37sec.