Essay Writing Courses

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
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Creative Writing: The Craft of Style

8 ratings

Enhance your writing style through metaphor, imagery, and word choice. Learn revision techniques to create compelling stories and polished prose.

• Coursera
• 11 hours 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

TOEFL Speaking and Writing Sections Skills Mastery

185 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
• 7 hours 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Learn English: Writing Effectively with Complex Sentences

87 ratings at Coursera

Enhance your English writing skills by mastering complex sentences. Learn to use adverb, adjective, and noun clauses effectively, avoiding common mistakes and expressing ideas with greater sophistication.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Enhance your Writing with Adverb Clauses

61 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
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Enhance your Writing with Adjective Clauses

24 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
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Enhance your Writing with Noun Clauses

17 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
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

IELTS Writing Section Skills Mastery

1303 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
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Creative Writing: The Craft of Character

7 ratings

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
• 9 hours 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters

6 ratings

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
• 15 hours 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show (January IAP 2015)

Becoming the Next Bill Nye is about using video production techniques to develop your ability to engagingly convey your passions for science, technology, engineering, and / or math.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 21 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Writing in Tonal Forms II

Advance your composition skills in tonal music, exploring sonata-form writing for string quartet and experimenting with expanded tonal techniques from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Learn to Teach Java: Writing Classes and Arrays

14 ratings at Coursera

Learn Java class design and arrays, and gain skills to teach these concepts effectively using the CS Awesome textbook. Ideal for AP Computer Science A instructors or university-level programming teachers.

• Coursera
• 13 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Business Writing

5 ratings

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 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Script Writing: Write a Pilot Episode for a TV or Web Series (Project-Centered Course)

795 ratings at Coursera

Learn to craft a compelling TV or web series pilot script through hands-on writing exercises, peer feedback, and structured guidance. Develop your unique concept into a polished, pitch-ready screenplay and series bible.

• Coursera
• 21 hours 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course