Academic English: Writing

Specialization
MOOC Coursera 2016

1 Courses
1.1 Grammar and Punctuation
This course consists in the following activities:
1. Introduction to writing in academic English.
2. Verb tenses and conjunctions.
3. Compound and complex sentences.
4. More commas, parallel structure, and sentence variety.

1.2 Getting Started with Essay Writing

This course consists in the following activities:
1. Introduction to essay writing.
2. Essay structure.
3. Writing compare/contrast essays.
4. Writing cause/effect essays.
5. Writing argument essays.

1.3 Advanced Writing

This course consists in the following activities:
1. Introduction to plagiarism and synthesis essay.
2. Writing more sophisticated argument essays.
3. Avoiding plagiarism.
4. Synthesis essay.
5. Documented essay.
1.4 Introduction to Research for Essay Writing
This course consists in the following activities:
1. Introduction to research and planning the paper.
2. Language for research writing.
3. More on citing sources and formatting.

1.5 Capstone: Writing a Research Paper

This course consists in the following activities:
1. Getting started into writing a paper.
2. Research and annotated bibliography.
3. First draft and introduction paragraph.
4. The rough draft.
5. Revise and rewrite.
6. The final draft