Learn how to organize an effective essay through this video. Essay outlines are important in long write-ups like school thesis and magazine-style writing.

⁣An informal or casual writing style tends to use contractions, colloquial (slang) language, a subjective perspective, as well as other traits. By contrast, a formal tone is more polished and focused. Learn how to recognize the tone of a piece of writing and improve your own prose.

As a writer one should be familiar with sentence structure. ⁣Sometimes finding the subject of a sentence can be difficult. In this video, we discuss some tricky cases to watch out for.

⁣As part of a series on analyzing English literature (and writing a quality essay), we look at Marxist literary theory. This video explains the relationship between the base and the superstructure and explores how later Marxist literary critics such as Raymond Williams adapted Marx's ideas to help with literary interpretation.

The video is part of a literary series introducing the basics of literary theory.