This amazing course brought new skills in my life. I wrote for public, and my article "India and Armenia: the Connection" got published. I learned how to make arguments and support evidence to make the arguments stronger. I learned the strategies on how to make a visual analysis. We learned to write annotations and do proper citations. I would strongly recommend my peers to take this course.

With best regards,

Mane Mehrabian, Armenia

Esse curso foi muito dinâmico. A abordagem de feedback é realmente efetiva para um curso online. Melhor curso que fiz até hoje e recomendo muito. Estou ansiosa para um segundo módulo desse curso.

This course was very dynamic. The feedback approach is really effective for an online course. Best course I have taken so far and I highly recommend it. I look forward to a second module of this course

This course really helped me improve my academic writing skills. The videos are detailed, and can be understood easily. The writing assignments are always easy to understand, and can be done. Professor Comer teaches us very well. I'm in 8th grade, and because of this course, I can write college level pieces.

I keep trying to unenroll and it will not allow it.

The "peers" in this course are not submitting assignments and their peer reviews exist of three types:

three dots ...

the word "ok"

the word "good"

This course is a total waste of my time. I really fail to understand how it is so badly managed with so much spam and plagiarism and "students" that are not actually doing the assignments at all.

Excellent course. I learned so much about writing and it opened up new possibilities for me. The lectures were interesting and Dr. Comer presents her information in an open and enjoyable manner. I wish there was an English Composition ll course.

this is a nice course, i learned a lot from this course. The only concern i have is instructor is not active at all. I tried to contact her with few questions never heard back from her. I wish i could also get participated in the workshop, the recorded workshop are very old from 2013 and many cited link are expired and i was not able to open.

I have learn to read books and to give answers on the questions the professor give me on books that I have to read 5 times to give an answer not only that with revising the work of others I can understand more profoundly. And to learn to not write short. How to write clearly. How to write better articles. clear writing, expressing your self clearly following certain structural ideas.

Thank you Coursera and Duck University for me making this educational process accessible. and I also want to thank the instructors too for making the course understandable enough. I Finally above, want to Thank God for the Privilege to be among the people taking these courses and learning on this plate form. your effort of love shall not be for Granted

Hello to my instructor. It is a "Thank You Note", arriving from Palmdale California. It is my pleasure to tell the university that my instructor is great. I am expressing my gratitude and genuine appreciation for dedicating the time to be part of my life as a student, thank you so much for instructing Ana Pelayo.

It took me a long time to finish this course, because it was so demanding, and the result was that I feel very confident to write essays in general, as well as op-eds. Really a valuable course, and Mrs Comer deserves my congratulations for this.

my experience with this course was outstanding. very helpful especially for undergraduate students. this course improve your writing skills, teach you to think critically and transfer of your knowledge to the reader in the easiest way.

I have learnt a lot from this course, it would be nice to have an opportunity to study english composion 2. Very good teacher, humble and explain things clearly. I am very gratefull.

Great experience, nonetheless, I would say that it is more about applying your writing to different contexts rather than improving it. There is some of that, but not that much.

I really enjoyed this course.I also learned new skills.

It is not easy to complete this course, but it's worth it.

Too long, too much reading and doing, it should be dynamic but taking so much time, that is why a lot of people did not give proper answers to questions.

I am trying to / starting to write an article and I felt I should take one class before I actually start writing. However, when I started to watch the videos, I did not feel I am in a class to learn. To me, teacher smiling, laughing frequently, talking things out of topic made me do not feel I will learn something within certain period of time . I think, if teacher is more serious and stick to the module topic may attract more students like me.

Feedback from peers is unbecoming. I am honestly discouraged.

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This course was amazingly very helpful in shaping the broad knowledge in English composition. I am much impressed and inspired by the style and management of this course. During the whole time of this course, I learned very astonishing things that’s have improved my skills very broadly. Let’s me to start explaining from the first assignment of this course.

During the first week, Dr. Denis, asked to write about your life history as a writer. It was a quite new thing for me. It gave me time and opportunities to think about my previous life experiences about writings. I started to write from my childhood when my parents and kingartin teachers helped me a lot to start writing. This assignment was a quite amazing miracle helping me to revise my knowledge and experiences about writings.

In the second week, Dr. Denis, helped us to focus on critical readings. As critical reading is main habit which required to write critically. Selection of a chapter of Coyle’s book was very amazing thing. This book had also many other advices and terms which may help a writer to critically focus and analysis of certain things. First time when I tried to summarize it, make some questions and evaluate it, I felt very tough job. But it helped a lot me to gaining this basic skill required to become a successful writer.

The project of visual analysis was a quite new thing for me. First time when I started to write and describe about a picture, I felt really much excited. Evaluation and arguing about visual texts are a technique which require quite expertise. Just seeing picture, its evaluation, argumentation about it and depicting arguments was the main pillar in shaping me as an experience writer. Case studies was also a necessary step toward the writing expertise. I have done this assignment with full of my potential. I really felt myself as an experienced writer this occasion of Case study assignment.

From my early ages I have a great interest in reading opinions and editorials on newspaper. It was my desire that I can also be able write opinions. This course has fulfilled my all desires of attaining writing expertise. I got much knowledge and important points from visiting teacher lecture about opinion-editorials. I struggled my best to write an effective opinions editorial article as my assignment to this course. I shared my articles with my friends and they have really appreciated me.

Now, I am writing for assignment of final self-reflection. It is also a good opportunity for me revise all my knowledge, training and expertise which I had gained during this course. The projects of this course trained me enough that I can argue about any type of piece of writing. Moreover, these projects also helped me to understand the process of citation. Teacher helped to deliver the main features of paragraphs, sentences and whole writings processes. As she described the 5C’s of writing process. Every time, I kept these 5C’s in my mind to write anything weather of this course or of other courses.

Finally, I want to say special thanks to Dr. Denis Comer for her struggles to deliver such novel kind of knowledge and expertise.

Thank you

This course was amazing, It taught me how to write assignments, how to peer-asses, how to write in academic style, how to cite, and taught me about all citation schools. It was fun, challenging and a great experience. I was able to discover my abilities in writing, which I was very unsure about. It provided me with all that I need, to start my first college year full with confident. I is truly a great privilege for me to find access to write and through this English course i have found the opportunity to discover my strengths and my weak pounts.

I want to thank you for this opportunity,it was a wonderful time for me.

"The content of the Coursera English writing course truly exceeded my expectations. Besides detailed lectures, it also provides numerous articles and online resources, like supplementary notes outside of class. It's packed with valuable information to the point that I could only skim through it during the course time. The writing exercises, akin to past school assignments, require more time than the lectures themselves, making the total time needed for the course far beyond the scheduled 25 hours. Overall, it has been very beneficial for my future English writing skills."

It is my first review writing,it is a great experience to me.From this article I have learnt many things like how to face failure,how overcome from it.Coyle’s entire book argues that the talent is not a gift of nature, but grown by practice and persistence. He started the first chapter of his book-“The Sweet Spot"- By the German proverb; “You will become clever through your mistakes” which calls for keeping on and trying all the time. Coyle sees that failure and mistakes are the best teachers

I find the whole course quite challenging and educating. The tasks I had were rather unexpected, but I definitely feel that my writing skills have evaluated and it will help me in my job.

However, the grading system can be sometimes rather unfair due to unwilling of the participant to comment and even read your work. I had an occasion when another participant misunderstood the word “fiend” for "friend" and it changed his impression completely and influenced my results.

Professor Comer is excellent. I know it's hyperbole to say that someone is the best (at teaching X, Y, or Z) but considering that I've never had anyone who's brought together a system on how to start (this is seldom discussed), conduct, and then complete academic (not interpersonal memos) research papers, this course should be done by everyone during the first year high school, never mind undergrad or grad school.