Writing Courses

Writing and Editing: Drafting

349 ratings at Coursera

Learn strategies to overcome writer's block, improve productivity, and enhance your drafting process. Explore techniques like freewriting, planning, and naming to boost your writing skills and confidence.

• Coursera
• 13 hours 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Creative Writing: The Craft of Character

7 reviews

At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters.

• Coursera
• 6 hours 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing Skills for University Success

54 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you’ll learn how to write effectively in different academic formats, especially essays and longer research papers.

• Coursera
• 7 hours 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters

6 reviews

How can you bring your resume to the top of the pile? You will learn how to convert a boring resume into a dynamic asset statement that conveys your talents in the language that an employer understands.

• Coursera
• 12 hours 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

BYU

Creative Writing

8 reviews

I'm Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers. Learn about plot, wordbuilding, short stories, character, and publishing.

• YouTube
• 15 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Teaching Writing Final Project

Develop writing skills through reflection, lesson planning, and practical application of key concepts from the Teaching Writing specialization.

• Coursera
• 21 hours 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Writing Process

33 ratings at Coursera

Explore effective strategies for teaching writing as a process, emphasizing discovery, low-stakes writing, and reflection to boost students' confidence and skills in various contexts.

• Coursera
• 19 hours 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Effective Presentations and Persuasive Writing

Master effective presentations and persuasive writing techniques. Develop skills in slide design, argument structuring, and proposal writing. Learn to adapt communication styles and stay current with industry trends.

• Coursera
• 12 hours 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Business Writing

5 reviews

This course will teach you how to apply the top ten principles of good business writing to your work, how to deploy simple tools to dramatically improve your writing, and how to execute organization, structure, and revision to communicate more masterfull…

• Coursera
• 12 hours 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

IELTS Writing Section Skills Mastery

1134 ratings at Coursera

The lessons in this course will improve your overall skills in writing and prepare you for every type of writing prompt on the test, increasing your chances of getting your target band score.

• Coursera
• 6 hours 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Project: Writing a Research Paper

406 ratings at Coursera

Welcome to the capstone project for the Academic English: Writing Specialization! This project lets you apply everything you’ve learned and gives you the practice you need for college classes by having you write a research paper.

• Coursera
• 10 hours 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

TOEFL Speaking and Writing Sections Skills Mastery

171 ratings at Coursera

Master TOEFL iBT speaking and writing skills with effective strategies, task-specific techniques, and practice exercises. Boost confidence, reduce anxiety, and improve time management for optimal test performance.

• Coursera
• 8 hours 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Enhance your Writing with Adverb Clauses

54 ratings at Coursera

In the first part of the course, you’ll learn some basic information about adverb clauses. Then, we’ll dive into the categories of ideas that adverb clauses express, and you’ll practice using subordinating conjunctions--the many grammar words that start…

• Coursera
• 12 hours 12 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Enhance your Writing with Adjective Clauses

19 ratings at Coursera

Do you have a hard time describing things, people, and places in English? This course will show you how to be more descriptive in your writing by incorporating adjective clauses in complex sentences.

• Coursera
• 12 hours 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Enhance your Writing with Noun Clauses

10 ratings at Coursera

This course is designed to hold your hand step-by-step through the most basic concepts of noun clauses all the way to the end goal of writing a paragraph with varied noun clauses.

• Coursera
• 11 hours 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)