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About the Course

Course 2: Getting Started with Essay Writing This is the second course in the Academic English: Writing specialization. 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 course, 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....

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ZJ

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This course is really helpful for me. I have learned about academic essay writing through this particular course. Thank you Common Wealth and Coursera for launching this amazing course.

JB

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It is a very good course on Essay Writing. Since it started with the basics, it helped me a lot to start from level zero. It was extremely helpful to go ahead with the future course in Writing.

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By Cesar S

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Dec 18, 2020

Excellent course specially for non native speakers.

By Wangeci G

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Jul 10, 2019

I feel confident in writing after doing this course

By Ayman M

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Nov 22, 2017

Interesting and useful course that helped me a lot.

By SHUBHA G

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Oct 15, 2016

Comprehensive, well-designed and easy to work with.

By Brad R

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Nov 5, 2015

Very helpful to develop your academic writing skill

By Reema

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May 17, 2022

Excellent instructor,and excellent course

Thank you

By TUYIZERE T

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Jan 18, 2021

This is among best courses to study essay writing

By Matias G

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Jul 6, 2016

Great course for practicing! Totally recommend it.

By Richard P

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Jan 26, 2016

This course easy to understand and easy to follow.

By Mahamoud L

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Jan 25, 2016

i enjoyed it much and really admired the lecturer.

By Sara Q

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Sep 4, 2020

I will recommend it to my friends.

It is so useful

By Came N

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Jul 27, 2020

I loved it. I learnt a lot. I'd love to continue.

By Ebrahim B

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Dec 8, 2019

It is so helpful and can't be described by words.

By Jitender S V

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Jun 6, 2018

Thank you for this great course. I learned a lot.

By Manjil B

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Jan 2, 2024

Fantastic course . learnt many things about it .

By Bobby W

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Apr 29, 2020

this course really improved my writing skills .

By Christian

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Jan 4, 2016

For me, Tamy Chapman is the best teacher so far.

By Seven W

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Dec 16, 2015

The course really helped me write essays better.

By Elena Z

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Sep 28, 2018

A great introdution for academic essay writing.

By VIRAJ B

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Jun 25, 2017

Very clear guidelines, examples. Thanks a lot !

By Esaú I B M

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Oct 31, 2016

Excellent course to develop your writing skills

By Kukuh T W

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Feb 27, 2016

This is a good course to improve writing skills

By Aida B S H

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Nov 19, 2015

It really helps to improve your writing skills!

By Sixian

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Sep 28, 2016

Thanks for the basics! =) I enjoyed the course

By Jorge C

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Feb 17, 2016

It's better if you start with the first course