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Researching, Reading, and Writing
Item# 40414
© 2009
12 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-720-1
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-721-8
Faced with a mountain of research to conduct, reading to do, and papers to write, students must work both efficiently and shrewdly. This three-section program tells how to identify and cite reliable o...
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How to Make Digital Stories
Item# 40213
© 2008
25 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-341-8
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-342-5
This video guides viewers through each step of making a one-minute/150-word digital story based on the theme "Who Am I?", a project that relies on editing software such as Final Cut Pro to integrate d...
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Birth and Death: The Life Cycle of Language
Item# 37542
© 2007
48 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8524-2
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8525-9
It is predicted that within a century more than half of the world's languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed. In this program, Noam Chomsk...
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Civilization to Colonization: Language Takes Written Form
Item# 37541
© 2007
48 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8522-8
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8523-5
Writing is a relative latecomer to the history of language. This program tracks its emergence in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica and its spread down through the millennia via conquest-usually viol...
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Constant Change: The Diversification and Spread of Language
Item# 37539
© 2007
48 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8518-1
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8519-8
In this program, John McWhorter, author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language; Lyle Campbell, of the University of Utah; Brian Joseph, of The Ohio State University; and population genet...
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Let There Be Words: The Origin of Human Language
Item# 37538
© 2007
48 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8516-7
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8517-4
What precisely is language, and how did humans acquire it? In an effort to answer those essential questions, this program journeys back to prehistoric times in search of language's origin. But this is...
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Mother Tongues: Languages Around the World
Item# 37540
© 2007
48 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8520-4
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8521-1
This program travels the globe as it surveys a large portion of the world's languages-25 percent of which are spoken by a mere 0.1 percent of the Earth's population. Moving from Africa to Oceania and...
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Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language
Item# 37537
© 2007
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8514-3
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8515-0
Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies while evaluating the...
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American Writers on Writing
Item# 37580
© 2006
75 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8989-9
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8990-5
Updike, Roth, Barth, Irving: their names reverberate in the halls of modern American literature. In this NewsHour program, these four literary icons-along with the highly regarded writers Frank McCour...
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Writing Online
Item# 36030
© 2006
29 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-5355-5
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-5356-2
From blogs, to e-books, to online reviews, this program introduces viewers to what it's like to be a writer in a technological age. Brief stories of blogs such as Washingtonienne and Belle de Jour tha...
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