Here is a collection of the video lecture-tutorials mentioned in my posts. (All are between 9 and 15 minutes long.) I’ll be adding links to the sample documents that appear in those lecture-tutorials. You can also retrieve them on the Docs page.

If there is no link yet, the topic is on my to-do list. The topics are based on the chapters in the third edition of my co-authored workbook, Revising Professional Writing in Science and Technology, Business, and the Social Sciences (RPW). By request, I’m also adding topics in a category called Putting It All Together. If you want to suggest something, I’m listening.

To hear the teaching philosophy behind these tutorials, check out Lectures in a writing class. Oh my! and Amateurs need explicit knowledge — not platitudes.

Analyzing Rhetorical Context

• Purpose, referring to an Email Job Update
• Audience, referring to a Hazard Abatement Notice

Developing Content

• Informative Prose, referring to a Business Plan
• Persuasive Prose, referring to a Business Plan
• Graphics, referring to an Outsourcing Report

Organizing Content

• Bottom Line Placement, referring to an Email Job Update
• Paragraph Unity, referring to a Health Plans Memo
• Cohesion, referring to a Letter to Suppliers
• Transitions, referring to an Executive Summary for Impact Fee Study
• Format, referring to a Technology Consultant Report

Managing Style

• Conciseness, referring to
• Parallel Structure, referring to
• Active/Passive Voice, referring to
• Word Choice, referring to
• Tone, referring to

Mastering Mechanics

• Punctuation (Comma Splices & Sentence Fragments), referring to
• Subject-verb Agreement, referring to
• Spelling

Putting It All Together

• Analyzing Audience for a Solicitation Letter
• Planning Content & Organization for a Solicitation Letter
• Revising a Draft of a Solicitation Letter