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Sophia: Research Sources
This slideshow lesson focuses on research sources by listing 10 types of sources: books, periodicals/magazines, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, databases, reviews, interviews, lectures, media (film, television), and websites. It...
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Sophia: Research Sources: Libraries and Librarians
This slideshow lesson focuses on using libraries and librarians as research sources. It explains what makes them excellent sources of information because of expertise and reference materials available; it also lists the cons of using...
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Sophia: Research Sources: Mining Bibliographies
This slideshow lesson focuses on mining bibliographies, or searching other bibliography pages on your topic to locate potential sources for your own research. It discusses the pros and cons of mining bibliographies.
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Sophia: Research Sources: Periodicals
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of periodicals as research sources; it discusses the pros of using periodicals as organizational aids and in research of current events and also the cons of periodical's lack of depth and possible...
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Sophia: Revision Techniques
This tutorial focuses on revision techniques; it offers a video of what to look for when revising, text of 5 steps to revising using teacher notes, a PDF revision checklist, and a slideshow of other revision techniques such as reading...
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Sophia: Revising Techniques
This tutorial begins with a PowerPoint presentation, "What to Look for When Revising," which is followed by information about the importance of the teacher or professor's notes. It also includes a PDF revision checklist, a peer editing...
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Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on revising the thesis and topic sentences using two videos and two slideshows. The first video discusses a 3-step revising process for making sure the thesis fits the paper; the second video focuses on what...
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Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes
This slideshow lesson focuses on revising using teacher comments. It discusses the advantages of teacher notes on rough drafts, how to use the notes to improve the final, examples from sections of marked student papers, editing and...
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Sophia: Romance
This slideshow lesson focuses on the genre romance; it provides genre background and common elements. It offers literary examples and an excerpt with explanation.
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Sophia: Run on Sentences
This tutorial focuses on run-on sentences and comma splices and solutions to fix them. It offers a YouTube video that defines and gives specific methods to correct run-on sentences and a PDF that reviews three solutions to run-ons and...
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Sophia: Scanning
This lesson focuses on scanning; it defines it, discusses its purpose, and explains things to look for. It offers both text and audio formats.
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Sophia: Scanning for Key Words and Phrases
This lesson explains how to scan for key words and phrases in questions to help you understand what the question is asking. Then to scan the passage until you find the key words leading you to the answers you seek. It provides literary...
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Sophia: Science Fiction
This slideshow introduces the genre of science fiction. It presents background information, common elements, common themes, pop movies (from books) showing diverse examples, and three specific examples: "Time Machine," "I, Robot," and...
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Sophia: Sentence Openers
This tutorial focuses on adding variety to your writing with sentence openers. A PowerPoint presentation explains sentence openers and gives examples of ways to create interesting sentences, such as beginning with a prepositional phrase,...
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Sophia: Sentence Openers
This tutorial focuses on variety in sentence openers; it includes a slideshow about adding variety in sentence fluency and length, and why and how to add variety to sentence openers with examples. It also offers an audio clip with...
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Sophia: Sequencing Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on sequencing transition words; it explains the purpose of transition words in general and then lists sequencing transition words by purpose: numerical, continuation, summation, and conclusion. It provides...
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Sophia: Slash Marks
This video lesson focuses on the uses of the slash mark; it explains the purposes of the slash mark and when not to use it. It also discusses when to use the slash and how to write it between words, in poetry, and in URL addresses.
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Sophia: Stock Characters
This slideshow lesson focuses on stock characters; it defines the term, explains characteristics of stock characters, and provides examples from literature.
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Sophia: Summarizing a Source
This slideshow focuses on summarizing a research source; it lists the uses for summary, and explains what a summary is and is not. It explains how to summarize a text and incorporate it into a paper.
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Sophia: Ten Commonly Misused Words
This tutorial focuses on commonly misused words, their meanings and hints to remember the correct usage.
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Sophia: The Passive Voice
This slideshow lesson focuses on the passive voice. It defines it, explains the effective uses of passive voice, discusses how to write effective sentences using passive voice, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Thesis Statement
This slideshow lesson focuses on thesis statements. It lists, defines, and provides examples of three types of thesis statements: analytical, expository, and argumentative. It discusses the location of the thesis in the paper and offers...
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Sophia: Thesis Statement
This slideshow lesson focuses on thesis statements; it defines thesis and its purpose. It explains the three types of thesis statements: analytical, expository, and argumentative; offers questions to ask about the thesis to determine if...