Scientific Writing Courses

Getting Started with Essay Writing

19 ratings

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.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking

5 ratings

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics

24 ratings

Learn to write song lyrics using prosody: develop a song idea's point of view, shape stable and unstable line groupings, apply rhyme schemes, and set lyrics to melody.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Creative Writing

26 ratings

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
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Academic and Business Writing

18 ratings

An introduction to academic and business writing for English Language Learners, focusing on grammar, vocabulary, structure, editing, and publication.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Effective Writing for Greater Impact

Taught by Harvard Professor Todd Rogers with insights from comedian and writer Ilana Glazer.

• edX
• 1 week, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Research for Essay Writing

8 ratings

This is the last course in the Academic Writing specialization before the capstone project. By the end of this course, you will be able to complete all the steps in planning a research paper.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Stanford Lecture: Mathematical Writing - Refereeing

A lecture on refereeing mathematical writing, focused on how mathematical work is reviewed.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

High-Impact Business Writing

8 ratings

Effective writing is a powerful tool in the business environment. Learn how to articulate your thoughts in a clear and concise manner that will allow your ideas to be better understood by your readers.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Advanced Writing

7 ratings

After completing this course, you will be able to plan and write a more sophisticated argument essay.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot

15 ratings

Learn to outline and structure a plot: narrative arc, Freytag's pyramid and five-act structure, scene-building with showing over telling, and a twenty-one point revision checklist.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Writing READMEs

23 ratings at Udacity

Documentation is an important part of the development process. Learn to write READMEs using Markdown so your code can be used by other humans!

• Udacity
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Writing Functions in R

687 ratings at DataCamp

Being able to write your own functions makes your analyses more readable, with fewer errors, and more reusable from project to project.

• DataCamp
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Writing Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server

431 ratings at DataCamp

Take your SQL Server programming to the next level.

• DataCamp
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Writing Efficient Code with pandas

166 ratings at DataCamp

The ability to efficiently work with big datasets and extract valuable information is an indispensable tool for every aspiring data scientist.

• DataCamp
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available