The course content is great, but peer evaluation is simply useless and almost random. This specialisation needs to introduce an actual final assessment by an actual expert, not peers.

I have learned so very much. All of the courses in the specialization have been taught in a way that has been easy to understand. I will miss Tamy Chapmans smiling face.

I recommend this course for everyone who wants to improve his writing in English, you will get directly the easy and clear information, for me, this course is necessary to build your writing.

I recommend this course for everyone who wants to improve his writing in English, you will get directly the easy and clear information, for me, this course is necessary to build your writing.

I think the course structure is quite great but the scoring by peer-grading method still needs to be improved. Some students who enroll in this course have quite the same knowledge and writing skill in the same level as me. I wonder how they could give the scoring based on actual standard grading.

I had an impression writing a research paper is difficult before taking up the course. But the step by step pedagogical assistance and gradual increase in complexity in each courses helped me to complete a research of my own and created a lot of interest to do more research writing.

This specialization was completely different online course experience for me. I really learned very important aspects of academic essay writing in English.

I am very excited that I have been able to successfully complete my first Specialization.

Great course!

really very helpful

The research needs like six months

OK

too old

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After completing my graduation in English, I enrolled in this course to improve my academic writing skills. This course taught me many important concepts and techniques that were not fully covered during my degree studies. I learned how to write research papers, use MLA formatting, develop thesis statements, and improve academic language and organization. I am thankful to Coursera for providing such an excellent international learning platform where I had the opportunity to learn from highly experienced faculty members. This course greatly improved my confidence and understanding of academic writing.

I consider this course a very good one, well-taught, an appropriate capstone of the academic research writing specialization. Owing to the fact that the previous courses already involved academic essay writing assignments, it came rather easy to me to write the final most comprehensive one of at least 6 body paragraphs, obeying the rules learned. I am much more confident now to write a good essay in English using apropriate, academic language, and terms like thesis sentence, in-text citations, works cited page and plagiarism are very familiar to me.

This capstone project is the final touch for students to becoming master in researching, citing the sources, given the credit to who ever deserve it. It made me remember the taught courseworks I went through when I did a Master Degree! Now I plan my Ph.D. it will be the angular stone! Thanks coursera for this outstanding and critical thinking and advance writing course for academic foreign language.

It was such a good experience, I enjoyed the complete Specialization from the 1st to the last day, it was challenging I must admit, but and unforgettable and useful journey. I was not very attracted to the field of letters but at this point I changed my mind, I would recommend this course and the whole Specialization to everyone.

the course helped me to understand different formats of writing a research paper. it was informative and explained the concepts with good examples. pictorial illustrations helped in quick grasping and long term recitation. thank you, Coursera :)

It was such an inspirational, motivational, instructional and informational course. I enjoyed it a lot. and it did met my expectations as it helped me to learn new exciting and helpful ways to write a research papers.

Excellent course! Everything ties up perfectly at the in the Capstone, where you are required to use all the skills learnt in the previous courses. The lectures are thorough with the concepts explained in great detail.