DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Analysis and critique : how to engage and write about anything / producer, Laura Walz ; director, Jonathan Leven, Wendy Scarbrough.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2011]

©2011.

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 116 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm.)

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

fullscreen

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

All writing--whether it's an essay, a personal letter, or a detailed business report--is at its most memorable when it's built on the fundamental and critical skills that transform your words from good to great. The first lectures provide the first key to more engaging and effective writing: understanding literary genres and the ways their unique styles can shape and inform your own voice. The focus then shifts to the art of rhetoric and the ways it can help you adapt your writing to a variety of situations. The final part is a step-by-step guide through the writing process in its four major stages: researching, first draft, editing and rewriting.

The great courses, literature & language, writing

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language.

English language -- Rhetoric.

Criticism.

English language -- Writing.

Report writing.

Authorship.

Lectures.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Leven, Jon, director.

Scarbrough, Wendy, director.

Walz, Laura, producer.

McNeill, John, (Film editor) editor of moving image work.

Armstrong, Dorsey, 1970- host, speaker.

Teaching Company, production company, film distributor.

Title from title frame.

"Course No. 2133"--Disc label.

24 lectures (30 min. each) on four discs.

The accompanying course guidebook includes biographical notes and a bibliography (pages 112-115).

Includes bibliographical references in accompanying guidebook.

Editor, John McNeill.

Lecturer: Prof. Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue University.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; fullscreen; Dolby Digital 2.0.

How to write about anything ; How to be an effective reader ; How literature can help ; Shaping your voice ; Knowing your reader ; The art of the essay : how to start -- disc 2. Lectures 7-12. How to organize an argument ; Supporting your argument ; Finishing strong ; The uses of poetry ; Poetic diction and syntax ; Drama : writing out loud. -- disc 3. Lectures 13-18. What you can learn from autobiography ; Writing and leadership ; The rules of rhetoric ; Invention and arrangement ; Ethos and pathos ; Finding what you need -- Using what you find ; Getting started : writing first drafts ; Editing : finding what's wrong ; Rewriting : fixing what's wrong ; Avoiding common errors in grammar and usage ; The power of words.

9781598037142

1598037145

1490654607

9781490654607

Course No. 2133

PB2133A

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