Essay Writing Courses

Writing Professional Email and Memos (Project-Centered Course)

12 reviews

Want your workplace writing to make a positive impression? At the end of this course, you will be a more confident writer, able to create higher quality professional documents more quickly.

• Coursera
• 20 hours 8 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show (January IAP 2015)

Becoming the Next Bill Nye is about using video production techniques to develop your ability to engagingly convey your passions for science, technology, engineering, and / or math.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 21 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Writing and Editing: Word Choice and Word Order

1853 ratings at Coursera

Improve your persuasive writing with this 4-week course by the University of Michigan. Learn creative syntax, storytelling techniques, and sophisticated punctuation use. Includes access to extensive resources.

• Coursera
• 20 hours 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Cursive Writing for Beginners

10 reviews

Master cursive writing with this comprehensive guide, covering alphabets, words, sentences, and more. Ideal for beginners, with 3-4 hours of material.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Creative Writing: The Craft of Style

8 reviews

Hone your unique writing style with Wesleyan University's 4-week course. Learn the art of metaphor, imagery, and inventive word choice to enhance your stories.

• Coursera
• 7 hours 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Grant Writing and Crowdfunding for Public Libraries

Learn how to increase your impact, innovate, and overcome often static funding through various fundraising and grant writing approaches.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing and Editing: Structure and Organization

520 ratings at Coursera

Improve your writing and editing skills with this 4-week course from the University of Michigan. Learn to effectively structure information and balance between showing and telling.

• Coursera
• 15 hours 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing and Editing: Revising

352 ratings at Coursera

This fourth and final course in the “Good with Words: Writing and Editing” series will help you master perhaps the most important step in the writing process: revising. You’ll learn about the difference between editing and proofreading.

• Coursera
• 13 hours 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing and Editing: Drafting

335 ratings at Coursera

A 4-week University of Michigan course offering strategies to overcome writing challenges, with access to diverse resources and exercises for continuous learning.

• Coursera
• 13 hours 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Creative Writing: The Craft of Character

7 reviews

At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters.

• Coursera
• 6 hours 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing Skills for University Success

48 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you’ll learn how to write effectively in different academic formats, especially essays and longer research papers.

• Coursera
• 7 hours 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters

6 reviews

How can you bring your resume to the top of the pile? You will learn how to convert a boring resume into a dynamic asset statement that conveys your talents in the language that an employer understands.

• Coursera
• 12 hours 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Writing Final Project

In this 4-week Johns Hopkins University course, learners adapt writing teaching strategies to their needs, culminating in a final project incorporating key learnings into their teaching or writing.

• Coursera
• 21 hours 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Writing Process

21 ratings at Coursera

Explore the writing process with Johns Hopkins University's 4-week course. Learn practical strategies to increase students' writing confidence and discover methods for teaching writing effectively.

• Coursera
• 19 hours 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Business Writing

5 reviews

This course will teach you how to apply the top ten principles of good business writing to your work, how to deploy simple tools to dramatically improve your writing, and how to execute organization, structure, and revision to communicate more masterfull…

• Coursera
• 12 hours 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)