These videos deal with strategies to write successful papers. Unlike the sentence-level issues covered in the grammar videos, these videos will focus on paper-level concerns.
| Video | Description | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism | This video covers plagiarism, but focuses on how you can best cite sources – including paraphrasing and choosing direct quotes effectively – to improve your use of research, and simultaneously make plagiarism a non-issue. | Avoiding Plagiarism Docs |
| Introductions & Conclusions | This video focuses on two parts of papers that cause many students problems, with advice on how – and when! — to write them most effectively. | |
| Organizational Plans & Sentence Outlines | This video introduces you to four organizational plans or templates – along with some sample student papers using them – that you can use to shape your persuasive papers. | Organizational Plans Docs |
| Paragraphing: Head, Body, & Foot | This video gives you an overview of solid paragraph structure, with an eye toward making sure that all of your paragraphs are well-constructed, and serve a distinct purpose in the progress of your argument. | |
| Providing Support with Evidence 1/3 | In this video, we will help you master the basics of supporting the persuasive claims you make with convincing evidence from the text and your own research. | Providing support docs |
| Providing Support with Evidence 2/3 | This video contains a mini-lesson on avoiding plagiarism as you find and use research to support your claims. (If you’d like a more thorough discussion of how to avoid plagiarism, watch our “Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism” stand-alone video.) | |
| Providing Support with Evidence 3/3 | This video introduces you to the STAR process of evaluation used to prove a claim, and applies that process to some sample student papers to demonstrate how you can use it. | |
| ‘Cheat’ Sheets | This video offers a short introduction to creating effective, summarizing notes on any topic |