Writing Courses

How to Succeed at: Writing Applications

427 reviews

This free three week course will help you produce a perfect CV, application and online profile when applying for a job or course.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• 30th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Technical Report Writing for Engineers

168 reviews

Get an introduction to technical report writing. Find out how to communicate your ideas through well-written engineering reports.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Understanding IELTS: Writing

481 reviews

Find out what you need to know about the IELTS Writing test and learn techniques and strategies to improve your test performance.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

H.N.B Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar Garhwal;  CEC

Academic Writing

1732 reviews

This course aims to fill this gap by providing the fundamental knowledge required for effective and result oriented academic writing. It is a foundation course and the application of this knowledge completely depends on an individual learner and his or h…

• Swayam
• 15 weeks long
• 11th Jul, 2022
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

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 worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Commonwealth Education Trust

Writing for Young Readers: Opening the Treasure Chest

12 reviews

This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s au…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teach English Now! Second Language Reading, Writing, and Grammar

2129 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you will learn ideas for teaching reading and writing courses, and how to include grammar instruction within them. Learn how to help students with differing types of reading problems and how to implement both intensive and extensive read…

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Adventures in Writing

14 reviews

Welcome to Adventures in Writing, a series of graphic-novel style learning modules designed to help you learn more about and practice a range of effective written communication skills.

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 1st Jul, 2015
• Free Online Course

University of New South Wales

Requirements Writing

278 ratings at Coursera

Welcome to "Requirements Writing". As the title indicates, over the next four weeks, we will be looking at the important task of writing of text-based requirement statements.

• Coursera
• 4-5 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 12th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

How to Write a Novel: Writing the Draft

Move from outline to draft writing with crucial craft lessons from MFA faculty on scene design, dialogue, character development and plot.

• edX
• 4-6 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Paid Course

Writing in the Sciences

14 reviews

This course teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics include: principles of good writing, tricks for writing faster and with less anxiety, the format of a scientific manuscript, peer review, gran…

• Coursera
• 30 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 30th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

TU Munich

Academic Writing Made Easy

44 reviews

Struggling with writing an academic text? This MOOC will ease the pain – and make your writing shine.

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

• Best of All Time

Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics

25 reviews

There’s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it’s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple “yes” and you’ll be climb…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 30th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Getting Started with Essay Writing

18 reviews

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
• 20 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 30th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Scribble: Writing for New Writers

10 reviews

This course will take students through the process of writing from simple paragraphs to more complex writing structures and eventually research writing.

• OpenLearning
• 13 weeks long
• 24th Jun, 2015
• Free Online Course