Very much helpful.

good course

Good

1) Course content not systematic and sophisticated enough.

2) The lecturer seems not qualified or knowledgeable enough about the course topic. e.g. Regarding the MLA Works Cited format, she only gave some limited examples, without explaining it clearly.

3) The quiz’s are not designed well, for the course owner simply copied a number of existing flash/video quiz’s embedded in between the lectures, which are not of high quality. Besides, the quiz’s at the end of each lecture are to short and too facile/easy.

4) The course depends hugely on peer review, but I don't get as much as I expected from it, partly because the grading standards are not well designed.

It was an informative course but I faced difficulties getting the certificate. Some like, the task for peer evaluation requires evaluating minimum 3 submissions but so many submissions weren't available.

I am unable to get certificate as peer reviews are not done because there are no submissions from anyone.

This course has good content and the lecturers are good at explaining the subject clearly. I learned many things I didn't knew before. But the only drawback I find in this course is peer graded assignments. There is no involvement of teachers to review students works. Only students review each others works and sometimes it takes a lot of time to get yourself a review. Furthermore, one student has to review 3 other assignments in order to complete one week. But sometimes, you won't see others' assignments and have to check back many times to find others' assignments. So, that's a big weakness I find in this course. Moreover, there is no community discussion forum for this course. So, it is also lacking here. Overall, I find this course very helpful but, it would be better if the creators can fix above mentioned problems. Thank you!

I recommend this course if you are unsure how to start or do not know about advanced writing.

When I took this course, it helped me with my focus on higher-level of college writing.

I learned a lot of this when I took this course:

Use quotations to add support to my body paragraphs.

Use one type of MLA citation to give credit to my source.

Integrate my words with a quote with the meaning of it.

How plagiarism could have consequences on academic writing and my future

A synthesis essay discusses the topic in your report from several sources of differing views.

A documented essay is almost like a synthesis essay, but the author develops an opinion on secondary resources.

I learned about the advanced writing principles in academic writing. This course gave me an important lesson in writing argument essays, including how to construct the argument essay, how to cite outside knowledge, what is plagiarism and why it is important, and how to form the essay in MLA style.

Actually, it was not easy for me to complete the class, but I could have appreciated the lessons I learned in the courses. Thanks to the course, I become confident in writing academic essays.

Again, thank you for your lessons.

Sincerely,

Keita Kitagawa

Academic writing course was the course that helped facilitating the exploration of different essay writing. First, the brave Instructors of the course delivered clearly the course content and made it available for the rest of the class. Second, the forum section was good, and the clarification and clear explanation of the difficult part was enabled. Lastly, the cooperation and the review criteria among the team was helpful.

I hope to meet the instructors again during the capstone module, writing the research paper.

Sincerely,

John Paco Dradria

This is a very good, interesting course, well-taught with comprehensive information how to correctly write an advanced essay. The five different kinds of lesson essays I wrote for peer review (compare/contrast, cause/effect, argument, synthesis, documented essay) were a demanding task which led me in a step-by-step way to a higher level of writing. I also liked that the proper embedding of citations and the topic plagiarism/how to avoid it were covered in detail.

This experience had been really great. Only through the online course of Advanced Writing, I could learn various facets of writing. Plagiarism being one, as it is one of the most misconstrued meanings in the world of the internet. From the bottom of my heart, I thank the instructor for explaining every step of academic writing very diligently. Feel honored to be a part of this community while learning million-dollar information.

This is the best possible course you can find about writing essays. The course structures are amazing. The teachers have taught everything you may need on your journey to write an academic essay. All you need to do is to follow the steps, watch the videos, and take notes. You may be confused at first, but once you finish the course, you're able to write an academic paper. I'm really glad that I enrolled in this course 😌

The course helped me dive extensively into the fundamentals of how to write an academic essay, how to cite properly and how to be a better researcher. I would like to thank the faculties for helping the students enhance their writing skills with smartly drafted lessons, assignments, quizzes and video lectures. I truly enjoyed learning and will continue to do so!

In this Advanced Writing course, i have learnt so much about academic writing, documented essays, argumentative essays , syntheses writing , learnt a lot on plagiarism,and on how to use quotations,how to cite sources , MLA formatting etc, it has been a great learning experience and fun to learn from all the activities , peer reviews and case studies.

Hi, first of all I would like to thank to our Jesuit institution, because through this only I had joined corsera.

After that, from this course I learnt so much means what is documented Essay, synthesis essay, how to write MLA format and how to write works cited everything so a big thank to Coursera and my teachers

I have learnt many about many subjects during the course, subjects I was completely ignorant of. Today I feel the knowledge I gained from this course,will definitely qualify me to better standards in the domain of professional writing. Thank you.

I highly recommend this course especially for college students who are willing to write research papers in the future. This course will show you the proper citation techniques and enhance your writing skills. Thank you coursera for this.

Informative course; I have learned a lot of new and relevant knowledge which helped me to write more accademically and professionally at the same time. Highly recommend you if you want to perform colleges and workplaces more

Advanced writing essay course helped me to improve my knowledge about how to write academic essays. Also, it gave me a chance to practice different types and get a review from my peers. Thank you for this amazing course.

Learned different ways to write essays especially since I am doing papers while attending classes online. The papers written and information gave a different perspective on how to convey discussions on a topic to paper.

Through this course, I was able to enhance my discipline in academic writing. I have also learned more about plagiarism. It taught me how to be patient in writing my essays and in making sure that I write originally.

The course was extremely helpful as I learned and developed my writing, referencing and academic paper formatting skills. All activities, videos and readings were useful and engaging! Thank you for the course!

Thanks to the Coursera Team and the University of California, Irvine, for offering us such a pronounced learning opportunity. The course is perfect if you want to get familiar with proper citation.

Good luck

Everything was beautifully explained, even the importance of certain concepts. The activities and quizzes helped gain a better idea on how to write, with the notes and examples clearing all the doubts.