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Having to write essays is a daunting experience for most students. This series of short programs has been developed to help reduce those anxieties by showing how to do a great job of producing impressive essays. Written and presented by Dr. Neil Thompson, a highly experienced essay marker, independent verifier and external examiner, it covers some of the common mistakes made and offers practical guidance on how to make sure that you do what is required to get the best results.

Engineering meets art as we follow a designer in his efforts to bend industrial material into beautiful furniture. Underneath the documenting of the physical process of manifesting the sculpture, we also watch the ethos and mental process of ideation, discovery, and presentation, capturing what all content creators struggle with on every project.

Radical, free and rebellious in attitude, jazz is out on the edge and always evolving. Ideal for music students new to the genre, this program introduces common musical elements of jazz, the origins of jazz in New Orleans, and the evolution of jazz music styles over the last century. A broad range of audio samples, historical footage and practical demonstrations are woven throughout this resource.

This program offers a general introduction to the Functionalist perspective on mass media.

Named by Dance Magazine as "One of 25 to Watch in 2016,” Caitlin Trainor is a dancer, choreographer, entrepreneur and the artistic director of Trainor Dance. Driven by music and imagination, Trainor creates and performs highly physical, intensely human dances. In this program, Trainor gives a class for all levels that begins with a slow, deep warm up and progresses to full-throttle physicality in a contemporary modern style. Dancers are encouraged to revel in their physicality through sensation based and skill building cues, using weight shifting, yoga based preparations, tendus, leg swings and back exercises, bouncing, small jumps, and gentle inversions.

In this video, Rick Davis interviews Megan Holley, whom Variety named one of the "10 Screenwriters to Watch." Topics include Holley's background, inspirations, the writing process, and working on Sunshine Cleaning, which starred Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Learn how industry professionals became successful in the How to Make It in Film series shot at George Mason University.