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This is a video instructional series on English composition for college and high school classrooms and adult learners, presented in 26 half-hour video programs.
1. School Writing/Real World
This program introduces the key concepts covered in the telecourse and shows how writing in the classroom relates to writing in the "real world." Students meet those who appear throughout the course, including authors, educators, and professionals in all fields who use writing on the job, and also first-year writing students from colleges and universities across the country. The program touches on many of the issues in the "Thinking/Writing Strategies" sequence.
2. Finding Something To Say
This program introduces the topics covered in the Writing Process sequence ? invention, drafting, and revision ? with the most basic English composition problem: How does a writer start "inventing" ideas? Students learn to grapple with the intimidating process of selecting a topic to write about as well as the challenge of finding a unique angle when an instructor or boss selects the topic.
3. Description
Students, teachers, and writers share their observations on what makes good description and offer tips to help students develop strong and accurate description skills.
4. Reading As a Writer
English instructors, including CCC Journal editor Joe Harris, explain how reading is part of the writing process. Students and writers ? such as novelist Ernest J. Gaines and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson ? describe how they translate their joy of reading into better writing. Students also learn to move from reading for pleasure to deciphering academic texts.
5. Narrative Writing
This program shows the relationships among narrative writing, personal writing, and academic writing. Science fiction author William Gibson, mystery writer John Morgan Wilson, and novelist Charles Johnson present students with tips for telling a good story.
6. Voice
Writers choose their language and tone depending on the audience. In this program, students, teachers, and writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Aregood and novelist David Guterson, dissect both the esoteric and mechanical aspects of creating a writer’s voice.
7. Process Analysis
This program provides examples of "process analysis/how-to" writing in action, from a marine biology student describing how to reproduce a scientific experiment.
8. Revision
This program explores the process of macro-revision and offers a variety of strategies to help the student writer revise.
9. Writing Under Pressure
The skills learned in an English composition course can be applied in timed-writing assignments for other courses or writing documents under deadline on the job. Students learn how to adapt the processes of invention, drafting, and revision and find links between rhetorical strategies and real-life writing challenges in these high-pressure situations.
10. Freewriting and Generating
This program looks at ways to generate ideas and overcome writer’s block, with advice from a variety of people including English composition expert Dr. Peter Elbow (University of Massachusetts), Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, keyboardist/lyricist Thomas Dolby, and comic actor Kevin Dorff of the Second City comedy troupe.
11. Computers in Composition
A variety of writers and teachers ranging from Chip Bayers of HotWired magazine to Cynthia Selfe of Michigan Technical University discuss how computers are changing the way we read, research, organize, draft, and revise our written documents. The program also looks at how students in a distance-learning environment carry out collaborative writing.
12. Organizing Devices
This program explores different prewriting strategies including outlining, clustering, and listing as well as organization at the thesis, topic sentence, and paragraph levels.
13. Comparison and Contrast
Writers may find comparison and contrast to be helpful during the invention and drafting stages. A musicologist, a marine biologist, and a police officer show how these strategies ? combined with critical thinking, persuasive writing, and narrative writing ? work well in a variety of contexts.
14. Peer Feedback
Students, teachers, and professional writers demonstrate how the revision process often starts out ? and sometimes works best ? in a group setting. A federal judge and her clerks, a group of students, and a team of journalists illustrate how the whole can be greater than the sum of its writers.
15. Definition
Definition is used in a variety of writing contexts, from "defining yourself in the world" to technical definitions used in engineering or science courses. Definition is examined as an aspect of all other writing tasks: in argument, process analysis, and narrative writing, and in invention, drafting, and revision.
16. Collaborative Writing
This program shows how people whose work involves writing can learn, research, draft, and revise as a team ? creating better documents in the process.
17. Persuasion
In this program, students study the art of persuasion and how it is similar to and different from formal academic argument. Political activists, journalists, and advertising executives discuss techniques for persuading and influencing people to change their actions or views.
18. Reading
As a Thinker In this program, students explore ways to read critically. They’ll learn to read and understand challenging college textbooks, no matter what the subject; to "own" the words in a dense text by challenging some of the author’s ideas and agreeing with others; and to summarize and paraphrase an author’s words, and then restate new ideas synthesized from those words.
19. Argument
The formal argument is the basis for most academic assignments, including research papers. Students learn about the process of writing a simple statement (a main-claim, thesis, hypothesis, or focus sentence) and supporting it with evidence.
20. Quotes and Citations
This program presents students with skills to properly paraphrase, quote, and use MLA or APA citations in academic work and other writing.
21. Research
Librarians and instructors offer advice on research issues, such as how to evaluate the validity of evidence gained from the popular press, peer-reviewed academic journals, or the Internet. Students learn how to use research during each stage of the writing process.
22. Editing: Sentences
This program helps students correct their own writing weaknesses, with a special emphasis on sentence structure problems. Students learn to identify and correct misplaced modifiers, comma splices, sentence fragments, nonparallel constructions, and other errors that can make otherwise coherent writing confusing.
23. Critical Thinking
Students and instructors contemplate the concept of "critical thinking," examining how it affects the relationship among students, their textbooks, and their teachers as well as its importance in good reading and writing.
24. Editing: Word Usage
In this program, students learn to recognize and correct errors in word choice, such as pronoun-antecedent disagreement, subject-verb disagreement, and homonym confusions. Featured teachers and writers include Sue Grafton, Betsy Klimasmith, Santi Buscemi, and humorist/grammar expert Dave Barry.
25. Writing Across the Disciplines
On a college campus, different departments emphasize different writing styles. This program highlights a variety of ways students can apply the writing processes and rhetorical strategies learned in an English composition course to situations across the curriculum, effectively summarizing the entire telecourse.
26. Editing: Mechanics
This program helps students proofread for problems with language mechanics. Students learn the importance of correcting mistakes that could ruin the credibility of a paper and ways to identify punctuation errors. |
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