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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space by University of Cape Town

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About the Course

Throughout the world, writing serves to express, record, and even create meaningful moments. In academic spaces, writing becomes the bridge between ourselves and the world of ideas. In this course, we provide practical insights into how to write an academic essay. We show you how to develop the academic skills needed to be a competent academic writer. You will have an opportunity to engage with texts written by academics, and to see how some of the ideas in these texts are used by students in constructing an academic essay. We address some of the challenges these students face with respect to academic writing and offer you the opportunity to practice and to develop your own writing style. For this course, we centre our lessons around a specific topic - the concept of identity, since it forms such an important feature of how we locate ourselves in an ever-changing global world. In other words, this course teaches academic writing skills through getting you to write and reflect on your understanding of identity. So if you are thinking about studying at a tertiary institution, or if you just want to brush up on your academic essay writing skills, this course is for you!...

Top reviews

Z

Oct 31, 2020

I'm very greatful to finish this course and I would like to thank Coursera for giving me an opportunity to enroll .I would like to thank the lectures and professors from the University of Cape Town.

QA

May 6, 2022

I think this course is good and interesting, especially for someone who wants to improve academic writing skills and do not know how to do it. Then, it is also suitable for beginner writer.

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51 - 61 of 61 Reviews for Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space

By Ivan B

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Mar 23, 2021

The course offers a helpful introduction to essay writing as well as teaches the requirements of academic writing

By DOGBEDA A

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Sep 29, 2023

This is a hands-on course that exposes the secret of an academic writing. Give it a try!

By Candy Y

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Mar 1, 2023

I really enjoy this course. Why my name not written in the certificate ?

By Silence C

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Aug 2, 2020

Well structured course

By Tshepang M

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Jun 8, 2021

Enjoyed the course

By XI M

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Mar 16, 2022

Good

By Mu'minah V

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May 7, 2018

It was okay but the honors activities are long

By Deepshikha B

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Feb 1, 2024

I find myself lost here. The course supposedly was about "writing you world" meant to give insights into the strategies to improve academic writing but there is little to no focus on that rather the entire two weeks I have taken classes they have been focused on studying identity. I am an academic editor and none of the concepts/lessons taught here are useful to me. What a waste of time. Thank god I only had the free version.

By BaÅŸak

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Aug 27, 2021

poorly organised course. not enough information on writing an academic essay.

By Basma A j

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Nov 21, 2022

it's so baaaaaaaad

By Jingning A

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Oct 23, 2019

Not very helpful