AV# 68166
English Composition: Writing for an Audience: 21. Research / 22. Editing: Sentences / 23. Critical Thinking / 24. Editing: Word Usage (CC)


English Composition: Writing for an Audience Series


Digital Video Disc - 1 hour, 52 minutes - Color - 2000



Methods for communicating in writing to different audiences are explored in this PBS series. In "Research" techniques for evaluating information from newspapers, journals and the Internet are considered. Michael Moore and Tom Robbins also discuss research outside academia. "Editing: Sentences" helps viewers find misplaced modifiers, comma splices, sentence fragments, nonparallel constructions and other writing problems. Al Franken and Rush Limbaugh are among those who point out logical f allacies in "Critical Thinking". Next, Sue Grafton, Betsy Klimasmith, Santi Buscemi and Dave Barry guide students through word choice issues, including pronoun-atecendent disagreement, subject-verb disagreement and homonym confusion. Each episode approximately 28 minutes. Narrator Peter Berkow. Peter Berkow and Anita Berkow. Study guide available. Closed captioned.


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