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As pointed out on the main page of our new video section, Hodu.com will be searching for the best educational videos dealing with the various topics we cover.

In this sub-section, we aim to bring you videos that you will find helpful in improving and enhancing your writing skills - whether your need is to write better business and professional documents, reports, sales and marketing collateral, essays and term papers, creative material, or whatever.

Of course, we will try our best to add new videos regularly as we discover material that meets our criteria. Happy viewing!

In Business Writing, It Pays to Watch Your Words

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Always write with your reader in mind, cautions Helen Wilkie, A Canadian expert on communication in the workplace. This is a "sample" module of an excellent 10 module course on business writing on CD, but even if you don't intend to buy the whole course, this module is well worth careful study. Helen discusses here, with copious examples, four mistakes business folk commonly make in their choice of words.


Want to Persuade Me? Well, Where's Your Evidence?
When you write an essay, your objective is typically to propose and advance a certain viewpoint , proposition or thesis. Once you have stated your purpose (usually in what is known as the "topic sentence"), your job is to substantiate your argument with solid evidence. Clearly, your essay will stand or fall on how well you do this. Using the topic sentence "Mel Gibson is the best actor in the world" as an example, this brief presentation discusses the various types of evidence you can use to support your claim and shows you how to use them effectively.

Forget What Your High School Teacher Taught You!

OK, you won't learn anything in the way of hard skills in this hilarious little piece, which is bound to evoke feelings of nostalgia in many of us. But what it will teach you - hopefully - is a certain attitude and approach to writing that it's important to internalize even before you start to put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard! The presenter reminisces about a hot and lazy Friday afternoon in History class, when the teacher assigns a "500-word" essay for weekend homework. What do they do late Sunday evening, after an exhausting, fun-filled weekend, when they suddenly remember they have an essay to write? They find a workaround, but the problem is: old habits die hard...

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