Video: Using Abstract and Concrete Language
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture defines and distinguishes between abstract and concrete language, explaining how to use both effectively in composition.
Material Type: Lecture
English 1010-Composition 1
Video: Saying What You Mean
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture will discuss common grammar errors and stylistic weaknesses in college students' writing--including problems like run-ons, misplaced and dangling modifiers, and illogical tense shifts--and will suggest ways to revise confusing sentences and paragraphs. The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a full transcript.
Material Type: Lecture
Video: Mixed Metaphors and Malaprop
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture is intended to help writers to recognize and avoid mixed metaphors and malaprop in their own writing and others'. These are common errors in writing and speaking that are especially common in English, which is full of "invisible" figurative language. The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a full transcript.
Material Type: Lecture
College Writing: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success
(View Complete Item Description)Textbook to use in a Learning Support Writing class.
Material Type: Textbook