Academic Writing: Academic Essay Writing Essentials

Academic Writing: Academic Essay Writing Essentials

Do you want to write better essays for your college or university assignments? Do you want to learn the essential skills and techniques for writing academic essays more effectively? Do you want to impress your instructors and peers with your clear, effective, and polished writing?

If so, then this course is for you.

Learn Academic Essay Writing Essentials in 1 Hour

In this course, you’ll learn the essential skills and techniques of academic essay writing in 1 hour. You’ll learn how to:

• Analyse your essay prompt by analysing the question, understanding the assessment criteria, and generating and selecting the main points for your essay
• Outline your essay by making a rough outline, writing a thesis statement, and using relevant, reliable information from credible sources to support your ideas
• Write your essay with an introduction, the body paragraphs, and a conclusion
• Revise and edit your essay to improve its content, structure, and organisation and to check your grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style.

This course is designed for students who:

• Have English as a second language and want to improve their academic writing skills
• Are required to write essays for their course assignments
• Are beginners with little to no experience in academic writing at the college or university level.

This course is not a comprehensive guide to academic writing, but a focused and practical introduction to the essentials of essay writing.

What is Academic Writing?

Academic writing is a type of writing that is used for academic purposes such as essays. Academic writing follows certain rules and conventions. Academic writing follows certain rules and conventions, such as formal language, clear structure, logical organisation, and accurate referencing. Academic writing is different from other types of writing because it has a specific purpose, audience, and context.

Why Learn Academic Writing?

Academic writing is a skill that can help you succeed at college or university. By learning academic writing, you’ll be able to:

• Save time and effort by learning a systematic and effective approach to academic essay writing
• Improve your grades and your academic performance by writing better essays that meet the expectations of your instructors and the standards of your college or university
• Enhance your critical thinking and analytical skills by learning how to analyse and evaluate information from sources
• Develop your communication and persuasion skills by learning how to express your ideas clearly, coherently, and convincingly
• Improve your confidence and your motivation by learning how to overcome your challenges and difficulties in academic writing

How Will You Learn in This Course?

This course consists of 4 sections, with 11 activities during the course and an optional 500-700 word essay assignment at the end of the course to apply what you learn. The course also includes a downloadable course document that includes guidelines, activities, and checklists so that you can find what you need in this course more easily and quickly. You’ll get writing examples after the activities so that you can compare them with your own and improve faster.

What Will You Learn In This Course?

This course will show you the 4 simple steps to write an essay:

Step 1: Analyse Your Essay Prompt

You’ll learn how to:

• Analyse the question so that you understand what the question is asking you to do
• Understand the assessment criteria so that you know what the instructor is looking for in your writing
• Generate and select the main points for your essay.

Step 2: Outline Your Essay

You’ll learn how to:

• Make a rough outline that shows your main points, explanations, and evidence
• Structure body paragraphs and a counterargument and refutation paragraph to make your essay more convincing
• Write a thesis statement
• Use relevant, reliable information from credible sources to support your ideas
• Avoid plagiarism by recording information from credible sources, using paraphrasing and quoting, and citing them properly using MLA for in-text citations and the Works Cited list.

Step 3: Write Your Essay

You’ll learn how to:

• Write an introduction that provides just enough background information and states your thesis statement.
• Write the body paragraphs, each with a topic sentence, explanation and evidence
• Write a conclusion that restates your thesis statement differently, summarises your main points, and leaves a positive impression on your reader.

Step 4: Revise and Edit Your Essay

You’ll learn how to:

• Revise your essay to improve its content, structure, and organisation
• Edit your essay to check your grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style so that your essay is ready to submit.

Are You Ready to Enroll in This Course?

If you’re ready to improve your academic writing skills, enroll in this course today and start your journey to academic writing success. This course is affordable, accessible, and flexible. Enroll now and study at your own pace. You can access the course materials from any device with an internet connection.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn academic essay writing essentials in 1 hour. Click the ‘Enroll now’ button and join the course.

Additional Information

Before you enroll in this course, here is some additional information that you may find useful:

Course Focus and Scope

This course focuses on a common essay type: argumentative essays. Due to time constraints, this course doesn’t cover other essay types. However, you can still benefit from this course because the general skills and techniques in this course can be applied to other essay types.

Citation Style and Language

This course uses the MLA citation style, which is one of the most widely used styles for academic writing. This course also uses British English and UK spelling.

Assignment and Feedback

This course includes an optional essay assignment. The assignment is not supported on the mobile app. Please use a computer to complete it. You can submit your essay in three ways: add a link, upload an image, or enter text. The best way is to add an external link to your essay, such as a Google Doc, as this will allow you to show the MLA formatting of your essay and make it easy to read. Make sure the link is accessible to anyone with the link.

You can also choose to share your essay with your peers and receive feedback from them. This is a great way to learn from each other and improve your writing skills. You can also choose to review and give feedback on three other students’ essays if they have shared them.

While the instructor is not required to post feedback on your assignment, you can still review an essay example in the Instructor Example section and learn from the example.

You cannot redo your assignment once you have submitted it. You can only review what you have submitted and the essay example.

This course is designed to help you learn the essentials of academic essay writing in 1 hour. However, you can revisit the course at your convenience. Hope you enroll in this course and find it useful for your academic writing.