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    • a day ago

    Lay vs. Lie

    The words "lay" and "lie" get confused all the time, but they're easy to get right once you know the difference. After watching the vide...
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    Andrew
    • Feb 22

    Make Your Writing Flow | Semantic Flow

    People always say they want their writing to flow, but what does "flow" even mean? In this video, we talk about three ways that you can ...
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    Andrew
    • Feb 15

    The Rhetoric of Fiction Part 1 (Writing Prompt)

    The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne Booth takes on the rules of modern fiction writing and suggests a new rhetorical approach for writing fi...
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    Andrew
    • Feb 8

    How to Write a Better Love Poem | The Power of Specificity

    Good writing is specific writing. In this video, we talk about the importance of specificity by looking at how a love poem improves when...
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    How to Write a Better Intro Paragraph
    Andrew
    • Feb 2

    How to Write a Better Intro Paragraph

    A good introduction can be the hardest part of a paper to write. After watching the video, download the worksheet below to start planning...
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    How to Write a Longer Paper | Cutting the Fluff vs. Showing Your Work (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Aug 10, 2020

    How to Write a Longer Paper | Cutting the Fluff vs. Showing Your Work (YouTube Script)

    What’s that? You have to write a 10 page paper, you say? And you have to come up with 8 pages of fluff because you can make your point in...
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    Grammar Bites | Noun Phrase Modifiers (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Aug 3, 2020

    Grammar Bites | Noun Phrase Modifiers (YouTube Script)

    The noun phrase is probably the most modifiable part of any sentence. You can take my word for it, but it sure would be nice to find a no...
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    How to Write a Better Conclusion (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Jul 27, 2020

    How to Write a Better Conclusion (YouTube Script)

    All in all, these three principles will help you to write better conclusions. Writing good endings? Well, that’s a-whole-nother thing. In...
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    A Guide to Rhetorical Analysis (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Jul 13, 2020

    A Guide to Rhetorical Analysis (YouTube Script)

    Hey, glad you’re back! Today we’re taking on the challenge of writing a rhetorical analysis. To start, here’s a pro tip from someone who ...
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    Grammar Bites | An Introduction to Modifiers (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Jun 25, 2020

    Grammar Bites | An Introduction to Modifiers (YouTube Script)

    English, as we’ve stated before, is an SVO language, meaning that sentences in English require a subject and a verb, which is sometimes f...
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    Grammar Bites | Writing Noun Phrases (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Jun 15, 2020

    Grammar Bites | Writing Noun Phrases (YouTube Script)

    When we talked about combining verb phrases with other sentence components, we saw how the vast majority of sentences require at least on...
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    Grammar Bites | Nouns (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Jun 8, 2020

    Grammar Bites | Nouns (YouTube Script)

    Traditionally, we say that a noun is a person place or thing, but, like we saw with verbs, those traditional categories don’t always serv...
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    Grammar Bites | Combining Verb Phrases & Building Sentences (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Jun 1, 2020

    Grammar Bites | Combining Verb Phrases & Building Sentences (YouTube Script)

    With an understanding of verb phrases, you’re ready to start building simple sentences. The simplest sentences are built with a single ve...
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    Grammar Bites | The Verb Phrase (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • May 21, 2020

    Grammar Bites | The Verb Phrase (YouTube Script)

    Now that we’ve taken some time to see how verbs function on their own, let’s look at how they can work together to form longer verb phras...
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    Grammar Bites | Verbs
    Andrew
    • May 13, 2020

    Grammar Bites | Verbs

    Earlier, I mentioned that verb phrases are the powerhouse of the sentence. In this video, we’ll begin to take a closer look at verb phras...
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    Grammar Bites | Basic Word Order (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • May 13, 2020

    Grammar Bites | Basic Word Order (YouTube Script)

    In our last video, we talked about the basic components of the sentence. Now, we’re going to begin to talk about some of the patterns tha...
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    Grammar Bites | Sentence Components (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Apr 30, 2020

    Grammar Bites | Sentence Components (YouTube Script)

    Once upon a time, I had a set of mysteriously branded building bricks that could lock together to make a train. Some pieces had wheels bu...
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    Grammar Bites | Introduction (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Apr 30, 2020

    Grammar Bites | Introduction (YouTube Script)

    Just the sound of those seven little letters is enough to get people looking for the closest exit. It might make you think of abstruse se...
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    Logos | Making Sense (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Apr 29, 2020

    Logos | Making Sense (YouTube Script)

    If logos had a logo, would it depict a log and a goose, and would it be called the Logos loggoose logo? Makes sense to me— The word logos...
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    Ethos | Being a Trustworthy Writer (YouTube Script)
    Andrew
    • Apr 20, 2020

    Ethos | Being a Trustworthy Writer (YouTube Script)

    Oh, how embarrassing, you’ve caught me polishing my diplomas… Well, as long as you’re here, let’s talk about ethos. One of the enduring c...
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