Name: Grammar Bites | Working with Words, Phrases, and Clauses @WritingwithAndrew
Uploaded: 2024-10-20T08:17:00-05:00
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Description: Grammar Bites | Working with Words, Phrases, and Clauses

Grammar Bites | Working with Words, Phrases, and Clauses

Writing with Andrew 2024-10-20 | Grammar Bites | Working with Words, Phrases, and Clauses

Responding to More of Your Poems!

Writing with Andrew 2024-10-14 | You sent in more of your poems, so let's talk about possibilities for revision!

Ellen Bass - "The Thing Is": poetryfoundation.org/poems/151844/the-thing-is

Other Poems Mentioned:
Hopkins - "Pied Beauty": poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty
Oliver - "The Summer Day": loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-133/the-summer-day
Glaser - "Smoking": loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-071/smoking
Stevens - "The Snow Man": poetryfoundation.org/poems/45235/the-snow-man-56d224a6d4e90

Plaza de Espana photo: Andaluciawindow, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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0:00 Introduction
2:21 A Leaf's Ode to Love
7:24 Plaza de España
13:24 Praise for the trees
19:50 I Drink Dreams
26:23 Conclusion

Who Does Your Reader Think You Are? The Rhetorical Stance Revisited

Writing with Andrew 2024-10-07 | Wayne Booth's talk called "The Rhetorical Stance" is a great guide to writing more effectively, but it's had an even deeper effect on my writing. In this video, we return to the idea of the rhetorical stance and talk about how it can help you to write substantive, appealing things.

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0:00 Introduction
2:09 Three Stances
7:24 Going Beyond Booth

Write a Poem without Writing at All!

Writing with Andrew 2024-09-30 | Language is sound before anything else, but it's easy for us to overlook that when we're writing words on the page. Join me in experimenting with Jake Adam York's approach for reconnecting with the sound-driven side of poetry.

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0:00 Introduction
3:08 The Method
5:20 Getting Started
7:58 Writing with Sound
11:06 Conclusion

Descriptivism and Prescriptivism: A Small Powerful Speech

Writing with Andrew 2024-09-23 | When I started studying linguistics, I swept up in the fun of descriptivism. When I started teaching writing, I realized it had its limitations. Thank you for coming to my small powerful speech.

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0:00 Introduction
1:27 The Appeal of Descriptivism
6:47 The Limits of Descriptivism
12:19 Conclusion

Ellipsis: Not Saying What Goes Without Saying

Writing with Andrew 2024-09-16 | We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for a breaking update from the Quintilian Institute regarding the rediscovery of "ellipsis." Don't worry, you're probably not missing anything interesting.

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Nobody Likes a Know-It-All

Writing with Andrew 2024-09-09 | Which is why skilled popularizers find rhetorically savvy ways to share knowledge without looking like know-it-alls.

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"Someone Dead Ruined My Life...Again" youtu.be/qEV9qoup2mQ?si=cRDieTTaGeImYkK2
"I tried a $10,000 crystal healing bed. Here's what I learned." youtube.com/watch?v=P15luPewnJI
"Why Laminar Flow is AWESOME" youtu.be/y7Hyc3MRKno?si=ouRyEodeLl0QaN59

0:00 Introduction
2:12 CGP Grey
5:44 BrainCraft
8:10 SmarterEveryDay
12:56 Conclusion

Should Your Poetry Rhyme?

Writing with Andrew 2024-09-02 | Some writers think poetry should always rhyme. Others avoid rhyming. In this video we talk about the potential drawbacks of writing rhyming poetry as well as some strategies for working around contemporary attitudes towards rhyme.

0:00 Introduction
0:25 The Nays
5:08 The Yeas
9:02 Conclusion

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Revising Your Writing for Flow

Writing with Andrew 2024-08-26 | We've talked about principles for making your writing flow before--now let's take a look at how you can revise your writing to improve its flow.

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0:00 Introduction
2:31 Essay Replay
9:46 Modern Academia
18:51 Conclusion

A hyphen-disliking grouch complains about hyphen rules for six minutes and 26 seconds

Writing with Andrew 2024-08-19 | Hyphens. You can't live with 'em...

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Improve Your Life with Cumulative Sentences

Writing with Andrew 2024-08-12 | What do you get when you pile modifiers onto a base clause? A cumulative sentence, maybe the best kind of sentence... (an incremental improvement is still an improvement, right?)

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Understanding People, Especially When Its Hard | A.L. Beckers Philology

Writing with Andrew 2024-08-05 | Understanding each other doesn't come naturally, but it's essential for productive personal and political interactions. In this video, I share some key ideas from the scholar A.L. Becker that can help us to be more careful in our communication with those we have trouble understanding--and point out how it can translate to our own writing.

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0:00 Introduction
2:41 The Roots of Misunderstanding
5:51 Language vs. Languaging
14:18 A Reader's Responsibility
22:06 A Writer's Responsibility
24:37 Conclusion

How to Write a Sonnet (and Some Variations)

Writing with Andrew 2024-07-29 | The sonnet may be one of the great classics of verse form, but it has come in some different flavors over the centuries. Whether you're writing a Petrarchan sonnet or trying out a curtal sonnet, we'll get you all set up to begin or continue your sonnet writing journey.

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0:00 Introduction
0:43 The Basics
2:33 Variations on the Sonnet
9:20 A Royal Challenge

The Poetry of Breath of the Wild

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is often regarded as a triumph with an unfortunate flaw--its story. But what if it's not meant to work like a story at all? In this video, we talk about the differences between narrative and lyricism to show how Breath of the Wild works more like poetry than narrative fiction.

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0:00 Introduction
5:01 The Tyranny of Narrative
15:09 Liberating Lyricism
24:30 Conclusion

Reviewing Your Poems!

Writing with Andrew 2024-07-15 | You've been sending in your writing, and, today, we're talking about the feedback I'd give to four of your poems.

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0:00 Introduction
2:45 Poem 1
9:01 Poem 2
13:36 Poem 3
19:27 Poem 4
26:51 Conclusion

All the Best Words End in -nym!

Writing with Andrew 2024-07-08 | Let us show you what we mean!

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The Writing with Andrew 5-Year Anniversary Variety Show-tacular

Writing with Andrew 2024-07-01 | It's been five years since we first went on the air. Join us for an evening of celebration as we look back the show and celebrate the viewers who have joined us along the way.

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Rhetorical Analysis Is Easy and Useful (and Fun!)

Writing with Andrew 2024-06-24 | In this video, I explain the basics of rhetorical analysis and show you how to do it. More importantly, though, we also talk about why you might want to do it--even if it's not for an assignment.

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0:00 Introduction
1:45 Analysis + Rhetoric
4:03 Analyzing Rhetoric
15:21 Conclusion

Send Me Your Writing! (Announcements)

Writing with Andrew 2024-06-19 | Send your writing to Writing with Andrew:
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Physics Girls Adaptable Ethos | A Rhetorical Investigation

Writing with Andrew 2024-06-17 | Science teachers and science popularizers do something that looks similar on the surface, but they're very different rhetorical acts in practice. In this video, we look at Physics Girl approaches both tasks and how she establish her ethos in different ways for each context.

The Evidence:
"1D Motion" youtu.be/O97lI8FVEas?si=bI7RJnfHrSevb5qf
"Ballistic Ping Pong Ball" youtu.be/rk-6wHimbUs?si=B8_MeELJKlTUzkWE

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0:00 Introduction
3:54 Two Rhetorical Situations
12:33 Two Rhetorical Strategies
27:54 Conclusion

I Gave Myself Daily Writing Prompts for a Month

Writing with Andrew 2024-06-10 | Stop data brokers from exposing your personal information. Go to my sponsor aura.com/WritingWithAndrew to get a 14-day free trial and see how much of yours is being sold.

Sometimes, you may feel that you've fallen into a creative writing. I spent a month giving myself writing prompts, and it energized my creative practice in some exciting ways. In this video, I talk about what I learned about creative and writing and about designing effective writing prompts.

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0:00 Introduction
3:52 A Month of Writing
12:21 A Month of Prompts
19:04 Conclusion

Improve Your Style with This Wonderfully Rhetorical Guide (Review)

Writing with Andrew 2024-06-03 | A lot of book about writing are just individual writers' idiosyncratic ideas about what makes writing good. But Paul Butler's The Writer's Style is a guide to writing style that's rooted in centuries of rhetorical practice and years of scholarship on writing and style.

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0:00 Introduction
1:44 Overview
4:24 The Good
7:36 Some Qualifications
12:30 Conclusion

The Value and Folly of Writing Templates | Aristotles Rhetoric pt. 7

Writing with Andrew 2024-05-27 | Aristotle gives his students generic outlines for speeches at the end of the Rhetoric. Writing templates can be useful, but there's a reason Aristotle waited until the end: no template can be a substitute for understanding your rhetorical situation.

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0:00 Introduction
2:15 Arranging an (Ancient) Speech
3:47 Why Should We Still Care?
10:22 Conclusion

Getting Views with Science and Rhetoric | An Analysis of Veritasium

Writing with Andrew 2024-05-20 | Veritasium's early videos didn't reach an audience the same way that later videos did. In this video, we analyze some videos and talk about some modern rhetorical theory that may explain why those later videos were more successful.

Videos Analyzed:
youtu.be/2xKZRpAsWL8?si=jTkCT_KH02f9hCGR
youtu.be/9zso7ChaQXQ?si=Oh6JppDZBVFFu5O0
youtu.be/vqDbMEdLiCs?si=ks4WMiWxMSpRqp-q
youtu.be/uxPdPpi5W4o?si=qiSVzDzI8iq5pYFx
youtu.be/AeJ9q45PfD0?si=o5B9PPUT4ITNrTsf
youtu.be/ZMByI4s-D-Y?si=yip8uaxVx3Ct_dcI
youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98?si=Dv0EuseIn8qpUFP-

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0:00 Introduction
2:30 A Popular Misconception
12:13 Science on Display
24:44 Conclusion

Some Quality Content on Oxymorons and Synoeciosis

Writing with Andrew 2024-05-13 | Sometimes, you have to write about tensions and complexities. In this video, we talk about Oxymoron and Synoeciosis, two tools for blending opposites into one.

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Write a Longer (and Better) Paper by Showing Your Work

Writing with Andrew 2024-05-06 | Having trouble meeting the required length for a writing assignment? In this video, I show you how to lengthen a paper and strengthen an argument at the same time by taking a cue from the math teachers.

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0:00 Introduction
0:57 Show Your Work
9:56 The Rhetorical Difference

Lets Read Some William Carlos Williams 📖

Writing with Andrew 2024-04-29 | To conclude our National Poetry Month adventure, put your feet up and join me as I read some poetry by William Carlos Williams.

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My Favorite Book for Teaching Poetry | The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser

Writing with Andrew 2024-04-22 | If you had to pick one book to help you along in your poetry writing, I'd recommend Ted Kooser's The Poetry Home Repair Manual.

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0:00 Introduction
1:22 An Accessible Starting Point
4:04 A Reader-Centered Approach
6:40 Practical, Useful Advice
8:35 Just a Pleasure

10 Ways to See Your Poetry with New Eyes

Writing with Andrew 2024-04-15 | Revision may be the most important (and enjoyable!) part of writing--but it's also commonly misunderstood. In this video, I show you ten practical ways to see your writing from a new perspective in order to guide your revision process.

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0:00 Introduction
1:51 Leave It Alone
3:55 Write from Memory
5:08 Shorten & Lengthen
7:20 Start at the End
9:17 More or Less Figurative
11:11 Verbalize It!
13:36 Replace All the Words
14:36 Metamorphosis
16:33 Find a New Medium
17:47 Do Whatever You Want

Four Ways to Vary Your Poetic Meter

Writing with Andrew 2024-04-08 | As you get more experienced writing in meter, you'll probably start to crave a little more variation in the form. Here are four ways to make that happen.

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0:00 Introduction
3:05 Four Ways to Vary Meter
8:12 Conclusion

Robert Frosts The Figure a Poem Makes | Poets on Poetry

Writing with Andrew 2024-04-01 | It's National Poetry Month! Let's get going by talking about some highlights from Robert Frost's essay on poetry, "The Figure a Poem Makes"

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"The Figure a Poem Makes": poeticous.com/frost/the-figure-a-poem-makes

0:00 Introduction
1:41 On Sound
3:54 On Wildness
6:45 On Pleasure
10:03 On Scholars
11:53 Conclusion

Understand What You Read with the Rhetorical Précis

Writing with Andrew 2024-03-18 | The rhetorical précis is a useful tool for guiding your reading and making sure you understand what a text is saying and doing in context. In this video, I show you how to use it.

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0:00 Introduction
2:45 The Rhetorical Précis
7:06 So What?
11:10 Conclusion

Using Feedback to Improve Your Writing

Writing with Andrew 2024-03-11 | Giving and receiving feedback is often a core part of the writing process, but it can be hard to know what to do with that feedback once you've received it. In this video, I show you my own process of sifting through feedback from multiple readers while revising a poem.

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0:00 Intro
1:54 Initial Priorities
13:01 Revisions, Revisions
18:51 A Poem at Last
22:52 Conclusion

Create Your Own Audience with Constitutive Rhetoric

Writing with Andrew 2024-03-04 | Finding an audience for your writing can be challenging--so why not just create an audience with your writing?

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0:00 Introduction
1:23 A Taste of Constitutive Rhetoric
5:55 Using Constitutive Rhetoric
10:35 Conclusion

Sounds Parading in Parallel: Paromoiosis

Writing with Andrew 2024-02-26 | What happens when you combine coordinated sounds with parallelism? The unparalleled gift of paromoiosis.

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this is the end. (of writing boring endings)

Writing with Andrew 2024-02-19 | Welcome back to Clownin' with Andrew--let's talk about endings 🤡

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Write a Better Conversation Heart

Writing with Andrew 2024-02-12 | Conversation hearts have all the hallmarks of poetry--small, lovesick, and hard to chew. But, even then, they're not very good poems. You can do much better.

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All Writing Is Just Practice

Writing with Andrew 2024-02-05 | Writing anxiety is a common malady. One of the simplest remedies is to treat your writing as practice--no matter where in the process you are.

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How to Write Blank Verse

Writing with Andrew 2024-01-29 | It's not that hard. It's kinda fun. I'll show
you how it's done. Blank verse's time has come.

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Write Something Bad. See What It Teaches You.

Writing with Andrew 2024-01-22 | Forget writing good stuff. Take some time to write some artless garbage every once in a while. You may just learn something.

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Dont Leave Your Poems Open to Interpretation!

Writing with Andrew 2024-01-16 | I often hear writers say that they want to leave their work "open to interpretation," but that vision leads to a lot of unsatisfying writing. In this video, we talk about why leaving things open to interpretation is an ineffective strategy and show you a few better ways to strengthen your writing.

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Kooser - Depression Glass: poetryfoundation.org/poems/42656/depression-glass
Dove - Parsley: poetryfoundation.org/poems/43355/parsley
Gay - A Poem in which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me: poetryfoundation.org/poems/92018/a-poem-in-which-i-try-to-express-my-glee-at-the-music-my-friend-has-given-me
Hopkins - Binsey Poplars: poetryfoundation.org/poems/44390/binsey-poplars

0:00 Introduction
1:39 Open Empty Poems
6:03 Poems about Something
12:22 Conclusion

Aristotles Take on Style Is Acceptable! (Aristotles Rhetoric pt. 6)

Writing with Andrew 2024-01-08 | Aristotle said some things about style, and they're fine. So I'm going to say things about style too (lucky for all of us...)

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0:00 Introduction
3:10 Clarity
8:11 Propriety
11:26 Correctness
13:05 Bonus Gems
18:26 Conclusion

Anadiplosis: Beginning as You Finished

Writing with Andrew 2024-01-01 | The Quintilian Institute is moving, so, at this time of transition, we're taking a look at a figure of transition--anadiplosis.

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The Best Paper Is a Finished Paper | Timeless Writing Advice

Writing with Andrew 2023-12-18 | It can be easy to get stuck on the idea that you have to write things perfectly on the first go. At times like those, it can be a helpful reminder that your first priority is just to finish (you can always revise from there)

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How to Write the Right Thing (ft. The RSI)

Writing with Andrew 2023-12-11 | When you're writing for school, the most serious mistake you can make is not addressing the prompt. Outside of school, the most serious mistake is not addressing the exigence. In this video, we talk about how to avoid both of those mistakes with a little help from the Rhetorical Situation Investigator.

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0:00 Introduction
2:14 Follow the Prompt
7:30 A Fitting Response
17:42 Conclusion

Elevate Your Writing by Clarifying Your Motives

Writing with Andrew 2023-12-04 | What motivates you to write? If you want to reach an audience, it can be helpful to start by thinking about why you read.

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0:00 Introduction
0:39 Common Concerns
2:36 Differing Expectations
6:07 The Human Touch
9:59 Conclusion

Poetry by the Foot | Accentual-Syllabic Verse

Writing with Andrew 2023-11-27 | Iambic pentameter? Anapestic trimeter? The world of poetic meter can be tricky at first, but it's as simple as counting feet. In this video, we build on the previous video in the serious and discuss the ins and outs of accentual-syllabic verse.

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0:00 Introduction
0:39 Feet
4:47 Duple Meter
8:19 Triple Meter
12:04 Conclusion

Review | The Well-Crafted Sentence: A Writers Guide to Style

Writing with Andrew 2023-11-20 | In today's video, we're taking a look at one of my favorite books about writing style--Nora Bacon's "The Well-Crafted Sentence."

0:00 Introduction
0:13 Channel Announcements
1:59 Introduction pt. II
2:50 Overview
5:39 Nuts and Bolts
8:48 Final Thoughts

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Getting ChatGPT to Write a Decent Email | Plus an Unexpected Heart-to-Heart

Writing with Andrew 2023-11-13 | How many revisions does it take to get AI to write a decent email? Well, more than it would take if you did it yourself. In this video, I reenact my effort coach ChatGPT into writing a passable email--and our detour into some pretty interesting back-and-forth about AI writing.

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0:00 Introduction
2:19 "I Can't Make It To Class"
12:34 Crafting a Response
15:42 An Unexpected Heart-to-Heart
21:11 One Last Reply
27:22 Denouement
31:48 Conclusion

Punctuation Rules Dont Have to Be Complicated

Writing with Andrew 2023-11-06 | Talking about punctuation can often mean talking about seemingly complex and tiresome rules, but the reality is that punctuation can be pretty intuitive. In this video, we talk about a simple way to think about grammar and the punctuation that holds your sentences together.

Dont Stress Stress: Syllabic and Accentual Verse (Poetic Meter pt. 1)

Writing with Andrew 2023-10-30 | Meter is one of the most distinctive features of poetry--but it can also be one of the more complex and, sometimes, confusing. In this video, we begin discussing the basics of meter--syllables and stress--in the context of two simple metrical forms, syllabic and accentual verse.

0:00 Introduction
1:32 Syllables and Syllabic Verse
4:28 Stress and Accentual Verse
12:29 Conclusion