- Subjects
- Published
-
Chantilly, Va. :
Teaching Co
c2011.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (12 hrs.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 116 p. ; 19 cm.)
- ISBN
- 9781598037142
- disc 1. Lecture 1. How to write about anything ; Lecture 2. How to be an effective reader ; Lecture 3. How literature can help ; Lecture 4. Shaping your voice ; Lecture 5. Knowing your reader ; Lecture 6. The art of the essay--how to start ; disc 2. Lecture 7. How to organize an argument ; Lecture 8. Supporting your argument ; Lecture 9. Finishing strong ; Lecture 10. The uses of poetry ; Lecture 11. Poetic diction and syntax ; Lecture 12. Drama--writing out loud
- disc 3. Lecture 13. What you can learn from autobiography ; Lecture 14. Writing and leadership ; Lecture 15. The rules of rhetoric ; Lecture 16. Invention and arrangement ; Lecture 17. Ethos and pathos ; Lecture 18. Finding what you need
- disc 4. Lecture 19. Using what you find ; Lecture 20. Getting started--writing first drafts ; Lecture 21. Editing--finding what's wrong ; Lecture 22. Rewriting--fixing what's wrong ; Lecture 23. Avoiding common errors in grammar and usage ; Lecture 24. The power of words.