Academic Writing Courses and Certifications

Writing & Composition: Essay Prompts & Resources

A teacher resource offering essay prompts across argument, analysis, literature, history, philosophy, and other subjects.

• Study.com
• 1 day 17 hours 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Writing Process

Work through the stages of academic writing — pre-writing, outlining, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading — and identify parts of speech to evaluate a polished essay.

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

Career Certificate

Advanced College Writing Skills

Learn to formulate research questions, evaluate sources, synthesize information without plagiarism, draft and revise essays, and adapt writing to different academic disciplines.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 8 courses

English 204: English Composition I

Build academic writing skills through rhetoric, source use, revision, grammar, and multimedia presentation assignments.

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• 13 hours 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Essays

Learn to analyze academic essay structure: the functions of introductions, body paragraphs and conclusions, common structural flaws, punctuation, summarizing and paraphrasing.

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

English 205: English Composition II

Build college-level writing skills through essay development, research, source citation, revision, business proposals, and presentations.

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• 11 hours 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Clarity and Style in Writing

Learn to evaluate academic prose for clarity and style: strategies for emphasis, direct sentence construction, rules of proper word usage, and commonly misused words to avoid.

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

Paragraphs

Build well-structured academic paragraphs: write topic, core and concluding sentences, craft thesis statements, spot sentence errors, and use parallelism and varied sentence types.

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

Patterns of Writing

Compare the structures of narrative, descriptive, compare-and-contrast, persuasive, and research essays, and apply rules for capitalization, hyphens, and abbreviations.

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

Revising and Editing Strategies

Learn to distinguish revision from editing in academic papers, applying strategies for analyzing sentence structure and appropriate academic language to achieve clarity and precision.

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

DSST Principles of Advanced English Composition: Study Guide & Test Prep

Prepare for the DSST Principles of Advanced English Composition exam through essay drafting, revision, argument analysis, and source citation.

• Study.com
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

View High School: English 1

Builds high-school English skills through academic writing, literature interpretation, poetry and drama analysis, research citations, argumentation, and essay revision.

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• 11 hours 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Writing in Different Disciplines

Learn to recognize the writing conventions of the humanities, social sciences, and natural and applied sciences, and adapt style to purpose, audience, and alternative genres.

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

Developmental College Composition

Build foundational college writing skills through grammar, essay structure, sources and citations, essay types, and composition practice.

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• 8 hours 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

TECEP English Composition I: Study Guide & Test Prep

Prepare for the TECEP English Composition I exam through practice with argumentative, informative, problem-solution, and evaluative essays, revision, editing, grammar, and mechanics.

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• 7 hours 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course