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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Peter Elbow talks directly to students about the process of writing. Beginning with his own early difficulties with writing as a college student, Elbow provides insights into how one can work through writing problems. Full of detailed instruction and specific skills to aid in writing, this video guides its audience from the initial stages of freewriting to the final stages of the revising process. Useful for students and teachers alike, Peter Elbow...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Call it persuading, negotiating or convincing. Ethical influence is the foundation of successful leadership, management, sales, and customer service. Robert Cialdini has spent his career systematically studying the psychology of influence. In this program he reveals what lies at the heart of his findings: the six principles of influence that form the basis of effective, persuasive appeals. These principles - reciprocation, scarcity, authority, commitment,...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving...
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