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About the Course

Course 2: Getting Started with Essay Writing This is the second course in the Academic English: Writing specialization. By introducing you to three types of academic essays, this course will especially help prepare you for work in college classes, but anyone who wants to improve his or her writing skills can benefit from this course. After completing this course, you will be able to: - create effective thesis statements for your essays - plan and write compare/contrast, cause/effect, and argument essays - write well-developed body paragraphs Note: The lectures and practice activities are available for free, but you must upgrade to the pay version in order to take the quizzes and get feedback on writing assignments....

Top reviews

MA

Apr 20, 2022

For someone who did not learn essay writing in high school, this course is an excellent way to get started. I would highly recommend this to everyone who wants to improve their writing.

AS

Oct 22, 2016

I liked the course very much. It extended my knowledge about essay writing a lot. Also, I got many useful feedback from peer-reviewed assignments. Thank you to the instructor and to the classmates.

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By laila a

Nov 2, 2015

The course is very well organised.

Ideas are clear and precise.

Not too much talk to say a little.

By Deleted A

May 21, 2020

Didn't like the peer reviews. They are most useless, act as blockers and waste a lot of time.

By Majid Y A A

Apr 14, 2022

It has been a great writing journey, I learnt a lot of it and the instructors were amazing.

By hanwenzhang

Mar 21, 2016

it is very helpful, and if could have more details about sample essays, would be better.

By Richa g

Apr 19, 2017

I wish we could have feedback from coursera organizer as well for further improvement.

By Nguyen T Q

Aug 26, 2024

This is a very structured course, but the link for exercise do not work sometimes.

By M.jasmine P

Sep 5, 2025

It's a great cources to start to essay writing from beggining. Thank you Coursera

By Mintesnot M

Oct 17, 2023

Tanks, guys it my pleasure having you in my life, what you did form is priceless

By Aicha g

Feb 12, 2018

very goog course ..very well explaned but also need more paractices and reviews

By Pao R

Apr 7, 2020

Follow up with the essay and grammar to know where we are doing our mistakes

By Paula P

Jun 27, 2016

Very good!!! After the course, I feel more confident to writing an essay.

By Jason M M

Jan 25, 2016

I enjoyed this course; although, I only participated in the free version.

By Mohammed O S

Jul 11, 2022

I prefer that a feeldback to be done by the instructor not the students.

By Avril C

Sep 23, 2017

Fantastic course for refreshing knowledge on grammar and essay writing.

By David A R B

Jul 28, 2016

Nice introduction to essay writing. It gives several tips and examples.

By Mohamed H

Nov 24, 2020

Very great course and I 've learned a lot about essay writing from it.

By Jeffrey R

Dec 16, 2016

Very Good. But still, I think we need the feedback of the professor.

By Prabhu S S

Jun 13, 2016

This course really helps improvise and develop essay writing skills.

By Naeem H

Apr 21, 2022

It was nice course, however, it lacked teacher-student interaction

By FRANCIS J M C

Aug 29, 2021

I liked it, helped me learn how to write essays in a better way.

By Lojan A

Jul 15, 2025

I feel this course is not the right level for me at the moment

By Rodrigo S

Jan 10, 2017

Great course, I learnt a lot of writing and improve my skills.

By Brian T

Mar 17, 2016

This is a great course to advance your English writing skills.

By salamades

Aug 12, 2016

Good course. Too bad we can t access to everything for free.

By Tracy W

Sep 9, 2021

I enjoyed the class and the exercise with writing essays.