David S. Learning Professional Writing Through Videos

It seems today that most people prefer watching videos than listening to a professor speak or reading a long paper. And if you are anything like me, most likely you are not really listening to the professor's lecture in class and never end up reading those 40 page chapters they assign you in your textbook. Let's just admit it: There are way more important things that you are thinking about...what bar you are going to this weekend and when you are going to clean up your house after that party you had last weekend (so you can have another one this weekend).

Fortunately for people like you and me, there are more fun and entertaining ways to learn. The answer: Videos. Videos for learning professional writing tips are at the tips of your fingers on YouTube and a variety of other streaming video sites online. I'm sure you have went to YouTube before and searched for a music video or you just really wanted to watch Charlie get his finger bit again! If you are familiar with YouTube, then you are one step closer to finding videos on professional writing tips. And if you are not familiar with YouTube fear not, it is so easy a caveman can do it (pun intended).

It is very simple to find professional writing videos on YouTube. Here is a short step-by-step guide:

1. Turn on your computer and open up an internet browser...Obviously!
2. Type in www.youtube.com into your internet browser bar.
3. At the top of the page of YouTube, where there is a blank space, type in the writing tip you are looking for. ie. writing effective emails, writing a resume, job application writing.
4. Click on search and multiple videos will show up.
5. Scroll to the video that sounds most like you are looking for and click on it.
6. You have now mastered the complicated art of searching for videos on Youtube!

Videos on Youtube and similar sites are a great source of information. If you have trouble listening to your monotone professor, or reading books for hours on end, videos provide you a great way to acquire information in a quick and to-the-point manner.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unggnlyr18M