This course much more enjoyable than I expected. Professor Barry is dynamic, funny, and engaging. His background in law and literature constitutes a powerful combination that he uses amply to provide a quality experience to people interested in improving their writing and critical skills. I really appreciate that the course is structured in a way that not only shows important rules on the proper use of words and correct syntax in order to produce excellent writing, but it also provides insight into professional contexts, scholarship, and culture through references to materials as varied as commentaries by judges, scholarly research, Joan Didion, and Legally Blonde.

An absolutely wonderful course aggregating and emphasizing useful concepts, drawing on learnings from a number of experts from diverse fields, all to help you become a better writer, a more objective critic of your own work, and most importantly a better thinker. If you love to write, you would learn a lot from the useful pointers and resources. If you love to read, you would have a blast feasting on some exceptional pieces of written work. Professor Barry tries to keep it simple and fun, and still manages to deliver some deep impact insights.

This course was amazing. It took me longer than I expected, but it really is amazing. The material they provide is great. I learned many concepts that will be greatly useful for my writing in upcoming works. I especially loved the summaries at the beginning and end of each week; that recalling of previously seen topics made it easier for me to keep information in my head.

Excellent course and materials! Professor Barry is a great and more than qualified person to speak and teach about writing and editing; I've learned more than I thought and now just in writing but in my growth as a person.

This is a beautifully constructed course, I highly recommend anyone to enroll in this amazing experience, you won't regret it.

Very interesting, I've learnt alot which I can carry into my future day to day life with emails, conversations, and writing. The classes were fun, and kept me engaged the whole time. I enjoyed the course teacher and his approach towards teaching, he was very plausible.

I never knew there was much to writing until I took the first part of the specialization. From Words under The Words to Power of The Particular, it has been enlightening all the way. permit me to say that this is The Right Course Era!

I appreciate writing on a higher level and recommend this course to all who love to write. The professor, Patrick Barry, is a most energetic and engaging authority on the subject of Writing at a professional level.

I did not regret joining this course. It has opened a lot errors in grammar and improved my writing to its potential. Thank you professor Patrick Barry for being our mentor throughout the whole 4 weeks.

No matter what your profession, if you have to do any sort of writing for your job or even help with trying to get your resume chosen over someone else, this is going to help you be a better writer.

It is an excellent course that offers deep insights into the importance of words, it's usage in professional writing, and the impact it makes. I've learnt a lot from the course. Thank you Coursera.

I definitely recommend this course to you - whether you are a professional or a high school student - who wants to feel more confident about your writing and your writing style.

Loved this class. I put in more time then I have because i was motivated and interested in the assignments.

It was a great course that made me get better at writing. All of the materials were useful, and helpful.

Loved this. Patrick Barry was great. The first module felt long, but the others moved more quickly.

Fun, engaging, and will improve your writing no matter your current level.

Best writing course I've ever found. Prof. Barry is a brilliant teacher.

Excellent Curriculum and course delivery.

It is a good course and the resources given are very interesting and amusing. The only problem I found is that the course itself tells you that it is aimed to a wide audience, so there is no need for a writing background. But several quizzes require a previous knowledge of literature, so you will need to google some quotes to be able to tell the author and works that the quiz is asking for.

A solid course with reasonable workload and lots of excellent additional resources and readings. The only downside was the repetitive nature of the lecture videos/class clips/readings - the same material was recycled multiple times - helpful if you didn't get it the first time, but needless where easily understood.

This course introduced me to some new ideas and made me aware that what I have been using all this time have been some efficient writing techniques. I loved the sessions 'notes on nuance' and 'punctuation and professionalism'.

When too many references and too many authors references it makes me confused with the data and difficult to remember the key things and content.

Really good materials. The examples and reading recomendations are awesome.

I did not finish this specialty or this course because it was not what I expected. An honest name for the course would be: How to Spin Words So People See What You Want Them To See. I would like to be able to remove this course from my in-progress list.

If only the content hadn't been this great, I wouldn't have gave it a 3 star because the structure of the course is so confusing for starters. You'll get the dynamics as you progress tho overall really nice and worth the purchase

There is alot of extra information that you can read and it makes for an interesting class. But the assignments are useless. There could be better assignments where you actually get graded on a rubric not just class discussions.