Videos
The GCC was a leader in developing and assessing high-quality, interactive videos on a range of communication topics. These videos and the scholarship supporting them are archived below.
Access the GCC Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/gcccmu
Engaging with Source Texts Video Series: A Rhetorically Grounded Approach to Paraphrasing (click on the expand arrow to see the full list of resources)
This interactive video series was the focus of a Composition Forum article showing the benefits of teaching students to see source use on a spectrum from knowledge-telling to knowledge-transforming. We are working on creating a more accessible version of this series that with closed captioning.
Video 1: What Does My Instructor Want? Engaging with Source Texts in Your Writing. This video introduces the knowledge-telling and knowledge-transforming spectrum and has two quizzes embedded in it to keep students engaged. The video is no longer interactive, so students will need to pause at the quizzes.
Video 2: How Do Good Writers Get Started? TechSmith (the company that owns Camtasia) deleted this video from their site. We are looking for a backup copy. This video models good reading and note-taking strategies and has a writing and evaluation exercise embedded in it.
Video 3: How Do I Cite Sources Correctly? TechSmith (the company that owns Camtasia) deleted this video from their site. We are looking for a backup copy. This video introduces a rhetorical approach to citation practices.
This Video on Designing Effective Slide Presentations teaches a research-backed approach to designing presentation slides based on the work of Michael Alley. It has two short exercises embedded in it and is the subject of two manuscripts currently under review.
Our own post-workshop presentation which contains our answers to the exercises and includes additional tips on slide design.
This video is a revised and more professional version of our earlier video, What Professors and Employers Wish You Knew About Writing Emails. The revised video takes a more understanding tone and does a better job helping students manage the competing values of politeness and succinctness. Both videos are based off research published in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly.
This video provided students with practical strategies for creating equitable teams. It is based upon the work on team conflict done by Joanna Wolfe and Elizabeth Powell.
This video series teaches graduate students how to make their work accessible to a public audience. It was developed to support the three-minute thesis competition, which is held at universities internationally, but is applicable to any situation in which researchers need to explain the value of their work to a non-expert audience.
Although this video focuses on work in ECE, it is applicable to novice researchers in any engineering discipline. This handout collates the examples and exercises in the video. See also, the GCC novelty moves handout for communicating how your research is new and worth doing.
This video on how to chunk and pace oral presentations is targeted towards non-native English speakers, although the lessons can be useful to any student.
This video provides advice on writing to put your main message in a topic sentence where readers will see it
You can find other videos the GCC has produced, including videos of some of our workshops on our YouTube video channel
