Overview

Key Features

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 Getting Started with Essay Writing course offered by Coursera in partnership with UC Irvine, Division of Continuing Education, 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.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Essay Writing

Body Paragraphs
Conclusion Paragraphs

Writing Compare/Contrast Essays

Writing Cause/Effect Essays

Writing Argument Essays

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 7 days
- 10 hrs/week

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Self-paced

Campus Location

Mountain View, United States

Disciplines

Creative Writing View 35 other Short Courses in Creative Writing in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

This course is aimed at learners preparing for college‑level writing who want to develop foundational essay writing skills, including forming thesis statements and writing structured academic essays.

Tuition Fees

Additional Details

Course is free for the first 7 days. After 7 days, the course can be accessed with the Coursera Plus Subscription

Funding

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