How to Tell a Story (2:54)

Takes you on a quick journey into storytelling tips and learning! Use his method to learn a new story. 

Citing Sources: Why and How to Do It by Oslis Elementary (5:37)

This tutorial will show you why you need to cite sources in your research paper and how to do it. 

Citations for Beginners by Imagine Easy Solutions (3:14)

Arguing Effectively for a Persuasive Essay (4:40)

This video is to help with writing a persuasive essay. It addresses the argument, counter argument, and rebuttal with examples of a good argument. It also addresses the issue of tone during the counter argument and rebuttal, and gives a poor example of a counter argument. 

It isn’t easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. How can you tell whether a comma is really needed? Terisa Folaron offers some tricks of the comma trade in this TED-Ed Lesson. 

If you read "Bob, a DJ and a clown" on a guest list, are three people coming to the party, or only one? That depends on whether you're for or against the Oxford comma -- perhaps the most hotly contested punctuation mark of all time. When do we use one? Can it really be optional, or is there a universal rule? TED-Ed explores both sides of this comma conundrum. 

In this lesson, Helen Sword explains how few mistakes sour good writing like nominalizations, or, as she likes to call them, zombie nouns. For the full lesson click on TED-Ed

Don't take the easy route! Instead, use this little trick to improve your writing -- let go of the words "good" and "bad," and push yourself to illustrate, elucidate and illuminate your world with language. For the full lesson, click on TED-Ed