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Supporting Your Argument: Turning Topic Sentences into Questions
In this video, the teacher explains how to support your argument in an essay by turning the topic sentence into a question. The lesson focuses on persuasive writing and the goal of getting the reader to agree with the author's argument....
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Writing a Compelling Letter: Revising Paragraph Order
In this video, the teacher explains how to write a compelling letter by revising the paragraph order. The teacher emphasizes the importance of considering the way evidence and paragraphs are ordered to build a strong argument. They...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Connecting Ideas in Writing: Using Transitions for Coherence and Persuasion
This video teaches students how to effectively connect their ideas in persuasive writing using example, addition, contrast, and concession transitions. By learning to use these transitions, students can make their arguments easier to...
Curated Video
Strengthening Your Argument with a Formal Writing Style
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of maintaining a formal writing style in arguments to enhance credibility. They provide examples and explanations of how to revise informal language, eliminate contractions, and choose...
Curated Video
Reconsidering Paragraph Order in Persuasive Writing
This video is a lesson on how to decide the order of paragraphs in a persuasive speech. The teacher guides students through the process of generating ideas, writing drafts, and revising and editing their reasons. They emphasize the...
Curated Video
The Secret to Business Writing: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
In business, you need to know how to write. And that involves learning a bunch of things like knowing who you're writing to and what kind of thing you're writing. In this episode of Crash Course Business Soft Skills, Evelyn talks to us...
Curated Video
Revising Your Persuasive Speech: Connecting Evidence to Your Thesis Statement
In this video, the teacher explains how to ensure that the evidence in a persuasive speech aligns with the thesis statement. The lesson covers the importance of strong thesis statements, the three stages of the writing process, and three...
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Staying Focused on the Prompt: Reviewing Anecdotes in Your Writing
In this video, the teacher provides guidance on how to ensure that anecdotes in writing stay focused on the given prompt. They emphasize the importance of reviewing and revising your work to make sure it answers the prompt effectively....
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Write a Thesis Statement for a Speech
How to write a thesis statement for a speech for either an informative or persuasive presentation.
Curated Video
Revising Writing
This video discusses the purpose of, and techniques for, revising writing.
Curated Video
Elaborating on Supporting Details with Hypothetical Examples
In this video, the teacher explains how to clarify and elaborate on supporting details in persuasive writing. They emphasize the importance of making it easy for the reader to understand the argument and provide hypothetical examples to...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 3
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Curated Video
Elaborating on Supporting Details with Anecdotes
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of elaborating on supporting details in persuasive writing. They discuss how elaboration helps the reader understand the argument and connect it back to the thesis statement. The teacher...
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Organizing Your Ideas with Boxes and Bullets: Planning Your Opinion Letter
In this video, the teacher explains how to organize ideas for writing a strong opinion letter using a boxes and bullets format. The three steps are outlined: writing the reason in a box, identifying examples that support the reason, and...
Curated Video
The Core of Influence & Persuasion: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos - Character, Reason, and Emotion
The earliest thinker in the Western tradition whose ideas about influence and persuasion come down to us was Aristotle. He asserted that we need three things to build a persuasive argument: ethos, logos, and pathos. In English, these...
Curated Video
Supporting Your Claim with Reasons and Evidence
This video explains how to write sentences that explain evidence in argumentative writing. It emphasizes the importance of supporting claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. The video provides examples and prompts for students...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Top 10 Shakespearian Insults | BOOK | Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Top 10 Shakespearian Insults | BOOK | Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen What’s So Special About Shakespeare?’, published by Walker Books. You can browse and buy Michael Rosen Books here: http://bit.ly/MichaelRosenBooks...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Top 5 Everyday Phrases from Shakespeare | BOOK | Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Top 5 Everyday Phrases from Shakespeare | BOOK | Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael RosenWhat’s So Special About Shakespeare?’, published by Walker Books. You can browse and buy Michael Rosen Books here: http://bit.ly/MichaelRosenBooks...
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.
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...
Townsend Press
Argument
Form well-crafted arguments with the help of an educational video. Fourth graders study various examples of persuasive arguments, including thesis statements and cartoons, and observe the ways that supporting details can enhance the...
TV411
Whip up a Storm of Writing Ideas
Need a key to unlock writer's block? Introduce your writers to four easy steps that will release them from their mental prison. The brainstorming worksheet, designed to set free their imaginations, even has an answer key.
Texas A&M University
Introduction to Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Begin the study of persuasive writing with a short video that introduces and briefly defines ethos, pathos, and logos; Aristotle's three tools of rhetoric.