Writing

Get started with your own fiction writing, focusing on the central skill of creating characters, with this hands-on course.

This online course explores the key concepts and fundamental principles involved in the process of screenwriting.

Learn how to 'make' your own poetry by exploring different poetic techniques and styles.

Learn how to use English for study at university or college and develop your writing skills, vocabulary and grammar.

By recording experiments and publishing the results of studies and discoveries, scientists can share their important work, and find an engaged audience. You'll discover how to gather accurate information and relevant opinions as well as tips on how to conduct a successful interview.

An introduction to academic writing for English Language Learners, focusing on essay development, grammatical correctness, and self-editing.

Learn principles and practices to improve your academic writing

Gain Confidence Using Advanced Grammar Structures . Diversify how you express yourself in academic and professional settings.

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 masterfully than ever.

In this course, creative nonfiction writers will explore traditional storytelling methods, especially those which overlap between fiction and memoir.

Theres 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 climbing that windy hill, marveling at the view.

In this project-centered course*, you will design a series bible and write a complete pilot episode for your own unique television or web series, be it drama or comedy or something in between. This is a course designed to tap into your creativity and is based in "Active Learning".

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, grant writing, ethical issues in scientific publication, and writing for general audiences

This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft. It is specifically for folks who believe that writing poems just to express oneself is like using the Internet just for email.

The blank page can be the most daunting obstacle in writing. In this course, aspiring writers will assemble a �starter kit� for approaching the blank page by developing constructive ways to think about the writing process as a whole.

The first course in this specialization is a refresher on some tools needed for good writing. It will help prepare you for the other courses. You will need about 10 hours to complete this first course.

This is the second course in the Academic English: Writing specialization. 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.

Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language.