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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

EB

Dec 4, 2015

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

MU

Feb 10, 2016

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 Aicha g

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Feb 11, 2018

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

By Pao R

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Apr 7, 2020

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

By Paula P

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Jun 27, 2016

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

By Jason M M

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Jan 24, 2016

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

By Mohammed O S

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Jul 10, 2022

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

By Avril C

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Sep 23, 2017

Fantastic course for refreshing knowledge on grammar and essay writing.

By David A R B

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Jul 27, 2016

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

By Mohamed H

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Nov 23, 2020

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

By Jeffrey R S

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Dec 15, 2016

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

By Prabhu S

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Jun 13, 2016

This course really helps improvise and develop essay writing skills.

By Naeem H

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Apr 21, 2022

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

By FRANCIS J M C

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Aug 29, 2021

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

By Rodrigo S

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Jan 9, 2017

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

By Brian T

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Mar 16, 2016

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

By salamades

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Aug 12, 2016

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

By Tracy W

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Sep 8, 2021

I enjoyed the class and the exercise with writing essays.

By Nwet G

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Nov 5, 2015

Leaning from thesis sentence, supporting ideas and topic .

By Jim P M B

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Nov 14, 2020

This helps a lot in improving our essay writing skills.

By Oluwasegun I

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Jun 3, 2019

Insightful, I learnt well about essays and their layout

By Deleted A

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Sep 7, 2018

some topics was interesting while others i already know

By Radwa E

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Oct 30, 2016

Very good for beginners in essay writing.

Thank you.

By 2050514 D J R

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Oct 4, 2020

Very Informative and encouraging and very helpful.

By Eun L

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Nov 28, 2020

It is useful to set a basic knowledge of writing.

By Amin k

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Mar 18, 2016

It's a good course and it has a great structure !

By Tania P P

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Jan 2, 2016

Thank you for this course I have learned a lot!