Learner Reviews & Feedback for Getting Started with Essay Writing by University of California, Irvine
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I am only on the second week an have done my essay and feel very powerful. English is not my first language but the instructor made it easy for me by detailing every aspect of essay writing. Thank you
I always loved writing. What I didn't know, however, was that writing had some scientific structures that could make it very interesting. Take this course and know why. I took and was very successful.
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By Saptarshi P
•Pretty helpful !
By Flavia A G A
•Very good mooc!
By kasper a
•So far so good!
By Noman M
•pretty helpful
By Dennis V
•It is helpful.
By German D P C
•Excelente :D
By kenan b
•good course
By Hung C
•Nice course
By Steicy H T
•Excellent!!
By Mahmoud z
•GOOD CLASS
By Deleted A
•excellent
By Ha N
•GREAT!
By Sudipto M
•Great
By NUR ' B M
•good
By Jyoti B
•Good
By Rabbi h
•nice
By Jillianne U
•Good
By 刘诗琦
•入门。
By Andrea U
•Content is valuable and ,if approached with commitment, can improve your writing skills. However, the system through your essays are evaluated from other peers has to be revisited. It would be much better if there was a professional figure who corrects and grades your assignments. Moreover, many students of this course are unfair and spiteful individuals who enjoy giving you low grades. There is no control over this procedure and, to be honest, it is very annoying.
By Caitlin C
•I feel it was good for the basics but it needs to be made more clear that this is really JUST getting started. It has no reference to how to write essays under a time limit and I would say it is quite unhelpful for UK students (I don't know about elsewhere out of the US). I don't really like the peer review system as people were unfair and then gave rude comments or just untrue/ unhelpful advice.
By Tim Z
•Perhaps comparing to have writing classes offline, writing course online is not so beneficial for me, because all the feedback come from other students, but they are not as professional as teachers are. So the effect of this course only have me practice three essays but lack of modifications and improvement.
By Federico R
•There is a problem with the peer reviewing of the assignment. Even you finished all tasks, you need to wait for receiving your grade. For example, I am still waiting for the grade of my assignments, specially I am waiting for more than two weeks for the grading of my assignment in week 2.
By Erin J M
•I didn't like this course as much. Mostly because the peer reviews were strict and unforgiving and as an experienced, essay writer, I didn't feel I needed the rigid, boring academic structure required for this assignment. However, I made it through with a decent mark so I'm grateful for it.
By Lavender W
•It is not very difficult for me because I have a lot of knowledge about grammar and so on, so maybe it varies from person to person. I think it better make a test before we learned and give us suggestions to learn which part.
By Chieko T
•It's a very useful course; however, peer graded system doesn't work well because we have few peers. On the other hand, Edx has a staff graded system which works very well. Coursera should reconsidered the peer graded system
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