Writing Courses

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

666 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

419 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

163 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

Writing Efficient R Code

142 ratings at DataCamp

The beauty of R is that it is built for performing data analysis.

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

Effective Business Writing

67 ratings at Corporate Finance Institute

Regardless of what industry you want to pursue a career in, learning the skills and habits to ensure you always put your best foot forward means mastering effective business writing

• Corporate Finance Institute
• 2 hours 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Build practical business writing skills for emails, bad-news messages, letters, and persuasive proposals.

• Noble Desktop
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• $325.00

Plan and format complex business documents, using informative and persuasive techniques tailored to purpose and audience.

• Noble Desktop
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• $325.00

Build confidence in business writing through grammar essentials, effective workplace writing, and strategies for creating complex business documents.

• Noble Desktop
• 18 hours
• Self-Paced
• $695.00

Writing and Editing: Drafting

374 ratings at Coursera

Beat the blank page: use freewriting, temptation bundling, and writing before you're ready to defeat perfectionism, the planning fallacy, and missed drafting deadlines.

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

Writing and Editing: Word Choice and Word Order

2034 ratings at Coursera

This course will teach you how to use your written words to become more persuasive.

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

Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description

12 ratings

In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in shar…

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

Writing Efficient Python Code

2631 ratings at DataCamp

As a Data Scientist, the majority of your time should be spent gleaning actionable insights from data -- not waiting for your code to finish running.

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