Scientific Writing Courses

University of Groningen

The Scientific Revolution: Understanding the Roots of Modern Science

9 reviews

Learn about the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution and its role in shaping the modern Western world.

• FutureLearn
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• 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)

Toxicology 21: Scientific Applications

80 ratings at Coursera

Explore the latest developments in toxicology with Johns Hopkins University's 6-week course, focusing on the shift from animal to human-relevant testing strategies.

• Coursera
• 3 days 23 hours 53 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)

IELTS Writing Section Skills Mastery

1051 ratings at Coursera

The lessons in this course will improve your overall skills in writing and prepare you for every type of writing prompt on the test, increasing your chances of getting your target band score.

• Coursera
• 6 hours 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Project: Writing a Research Paper

327 ratings at Coursera

Welcome to the capstone project for the Academic English: Writing Specialization! This project lets you apply everything you’ve learned and gives you the practice you need for college classes by having you write a research paper.

• Coursera
• 10 hours 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Enhance your Writing with Noun Clauses

This course is designed to hold your hand step-by-step through the most basic concepts of noun clauses all the way to the end goal of writing a paragraph with varied noun clauses.

• Coursera
• 11 hours 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)