Throughout the world, writing serves to express, record, and even create meaningful moments. In academic spaces, writing becomes the bridge between ourselves and the world of ideas. In this course, we provide practical insights into how to write an academic essay. We show you how to develop the academic skills needed to be a competent academic writer. You will have an opportunity to engage with texts written by academics, and to see how some of the ideas in these texts are used by students in constructing an academic essay. We address some of the challenges these students face with respect to academic writing and offer you the opportunity to practice and to develop your own writing style. For this course, we centre our lessons around a specific topic - the concept of identity, since it forms such an important feature of how we locate ourselves in an ever-changing global world. In other words, this course teaches academic writing skills through getting you to write and reflect on your understanding of identity. So if you are thinking about studying at a tertiary institution, or if you just want to brush up on your academic essay writing skills, this course is for you!
SW
It has been an interesting course that has highlighted some of the knowledge I was lacking in terms of writing an academic thesis.
ZR
I absolutely loved the course. Please try to add more such courses. Looking forward to it.
BJ
It is an interesting course that gives you a lot of food for thought while also helping you to understand academic writing.
PS
this course was amazing for a beginner like me as it explained me the importance of academic writting
CR
Thank you for availing me the opportunity to learn something new.i enjoyed every part of this course, it was quite helpful.
IB
The course offers a helpful introduction to essay writing as well as teaches the requirements of academic writing
ZF
I'm very greatful to finish this course and I would like to thank Coursera for giving me an opportunity to enroll .I would like to thank the lectures and professors from the University of Cape Town.
QA
I think this course is good and interesting, especially for someone who wants to improve academic writing skills and do not know how to do it. Then, it is also suitable for beginner writer.
RW
it was very helpful with my writing skills my essay marks improved as I was able to apply what I learnt from the mooc
MM
This is an awesome course for people to take. This course can improve anybody's writing skills a lot.
AP
The Corsera program really help me to acquire new skills for essay writing and to develop a sense of responsibility and regularity in my work. Thank you Corsera :)
NS
I really enjoyed this course, I found the break down of what needs to be included in each section extremely helpful.
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I really enjoyed this course. The concepts have been discussed with such detail. This course is a must for all those who want to pursue academic writing.
It is a good course for those who want to know better how to qualify his/her skills to write essay for academic approach
Besides learning how to write an essay, this course gave me a chance to reflect on the effects of having different identities and how identities are viewed across the world. Thank you.
it was very helpful with my writing skills my essay marks improved as I was able to apply what I learnt from the mooc
The Corsera program really help me to acquire new skills for essay writing and to develop a sense of responsibility and regularity in my work. Thank you Corsera :)
A well-thought course that imparts the necessary skills in academic writing. While it is extremely useful to those who are new to academic writing, it is also a good refresher to anyone who has experience. The course also incorporates critical thinking skills as it looks into the main theme of identity and mobility. Assignments are also manageable and allow participants to dive into writing a proper essay. Highly recommend this course.
The course was beuatifully structured. I could evidently observe that the course was mindfully contructed to enable even the weakest student of english writing to develop and gain the skills and even become profecient in it. I thank the entire faculty involved in giving birth to the course back at University of Cape Town. Love from India to the makers of this course!
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I'm very greatful to finish this course and I would like to thank Coursera for giving me an opportunity to enroll .I would like to thank the lectures and professors from the University of Cape Town.
one of the best online course ever..thank you university of Cape Town
Excellent course. I have learned a lot. Thank you so much!
Thank you, it has been very helpful and pleasant
I am grateful for the course offer, it helped me learn how to write my essay systematically. And the course had lot of flexibility to complete my work in my own time that was great. And both the instructors were exellent in helping us understand the procedures of writing step by step. Over all i am happy and feel confident to write my essay now. Thanks a lot
Excellent course and good feedback. I couldn't finish the last assignment for the Honors activities because my job had too many tasks for the opening of the new semester year. Nevermind, I got what I wanted out of the course. Thank you.
I think this course is good and interesting, especially for someone who wants to improve academic writing skills and do not know how to do it. Then, it is also suitable for beginner writer.
Excellent course! I have learned useful resources for my writings and academic projects. Thank you very much University of Cape Town!
It is very important course that i need to further course to improve my essay writing and I appercate all leacture
Great course. I am very confident with dealing with Academic literacy and writing in Academia going forward
This is an awesome course for people to take. This course can improve anybody's writing skills a lot.
this course was amazing for a beginner like me as it explained me the importance of academic writting