Introduction to Academic Writing is designed for students, researchers, and aspiring academics who want to strengthen their academic writing and learn how to approach different forms of research-based communication. You’ll learn how to read and analyse academic texts, identify claims and evidence, structure an academic paper, and develop persuasive arguments. The course also covers literature reviews, summarising research, annotated bibliographies, referencing and citations, and avoiding plagiarism. Go beyond traditional academic essays by learning how to write policy briefs, op-eds, and blog posts for different audiences. You’ll also explore dissertation writing, from developing a research question and organising your research to structuring chapters and understanding guidelines for journal publication. Through practical assignments, peer reviews, readings, and hands-on activities, you’ll apply what you learn and build confidence in academic and research writing. Whether you’re preparing essays, conducting research, writing a dissertation, or planning for academic publication, this course will help you become a more confident, critical, and effective academic writer.
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The course is good, for my understand on academic writing. It is so helpful as a student, I will use what I learn in the future or currently during my learning.
AD
The course was good. However, the certificate says it is a "non-credit" course. For faculty, this is a big demotivation and let down.
AC
Quite beneficial and easily comprehendible....neatly woven....thanks and regards to maam and Coursera for such a beautiful offering.
VG
it was extremly useful and teaching was easy to understand.
AP
Wounderful course , useful for researchers in all fields
LD
This is the perfect introduction to academic writing. It will spark your interest to delve deeper into the various aspects of academic writing.
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The course brings enough perspectives on academic writing, and a must to go if you want to improve your academic writing.
Wounderful course , useful for researchers in all fields
peer review is worst thing how could you relay on someone to review my assignment i have submitted my assignment again but no one is there to review it
The course is good, for my understand on academic writing. It is so helpful as a student, I will use what I learn in the future or currently during my learning.
Quite beneficial and easily comprehendible....neatly woven....thanks and regards to maam and Coursera for such a beautiful offering.
The best course.
Great Course
The Academic Writing course is well-designed and has achieved the objectives that it has set out for itself. It will be helpful to integrate into the course the importance of using gender neutral language, which could also be part of the overall ethics of conducting research and writing it. Further, the course could also alert the need to understand grammar or know the tools to improve language skills. It is critical for learners who are not native English speakers.
this course was my first internship/term project of BSc Psychology course. I had been really enjoying the course since I enrolled in BSc Psychology on October 2025. The professors I met in every trimester are really nice and have good knowledge of all the topics covered till date.
It was a great course, and I thoroughly enjoyed the process of learning and writing; please create more advanced level courses with more writing exercises per module and also different types of exercises for journal writing or discussion etc. Thank you very much
This course is very helpful in Academic writing. It teaches you the kinds of writing, how to build an argument based on evidence, how to evaluate literature critically and conduct research from broader to specific topics.
Really liked this course on AW, very relevant to a researcher and also could relate it well being from an Indian context and Indian university. Thank you for this well-designed and very informative and relevant course.
This is a crisp and interesting course. It gives us the basics of academic writing with concrete examples. I liked how the instructor delivered her lectures, This course will help me improve my academic writing.
Kurs jest bardzo przydatnym narzędziem w życiu akademickim. Dzięki niemu mam większą wiedzę i mogę z łatwością pisać artykuły naukowe
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it was extremly useful and teaching was easy to understand.
It's incredible and a great course, indeed
Very good course. lots of learning points
Спасибо за обучение, очень полезный опыт
i understand all that thank you.