Study skills: Choosing better words

Duration: 20

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1987

Creator: HIGGINS PRODUCTIONS INC ALFRED

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows students how to make their written expression more colorful, interesting, and exciting, as well as how to increase vocabulary and achieve clarity of expression. Covers overused words, slang expressions, and synonyms., Covers some of the most common vocabulary problems and suggests ways of dealing with them: overused words, dull versus colorful and interesting words, general words versus precise word choices, common stumbling blocks such as homonyms, slang versus formal words, as well as unnecessary words.

Complete Record: Shows students how to make their written expression more colorful, interesting, and exciting, as well as how to increase vocabulary and achieve clarity of expression. Covers overused words, slang expressions, and synonyms., Covers some of the most common vocabulary problems and suggests ways of dealing with them: overused words, dull versus colorful and interesting words, general words versus precise word choices, common stumbling blocks such as homonyms, slang versus formal words, as well as unnecessary words.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.