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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Writing in English at University by Lund University

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About the Course

Acquiring good academic research and writing skills early on is essential for your success both at university and in your professional life. This course aims: - to give you an understanding of the conventions of academic writing in English and to teach you the components and benefits of what is called process writing. - to help you to put together your own “toolbox” of academic writing skills, as well as to give you a chance to test out these tools and to reflect on your own development as a writer. - to encourage reflection on discipline specific conventions; although the course deals with generic skills, you will be able to apply these generic skills to meet the particular needs of your own discipline. The course consists of four modules: 1. Writing in English at university: An introduction 2. Structuring your text and conveying your argument 3. Using sources in academic writing 4. The writer’s toolbox: Editing and proofreading In each module you will find video lectures and reading assignments, as well as assignments, such as quizzes and reflective self-assessment questions, in which you will have an opportunity to interact with other students taking the course. The course is free of charge, and learners have access to a free electronic textbook written to complement the MOOC: Writing in English at University: A Guide for Second Language Writers. It is possible for anyone who wishes to obtain a certificate of completion upon completing the entire course, including the graded assignments at the end of each module....

Top reviews

ZO

Apr 22, 2018

Excellent course for anyone who wants to learn or improve on proper academic writing. Especially useful if you're new to European and North-American Universities.

GK

Feb 22, 2017

I would recommend the course for everyone who would start new classes at university including intermediate level researcher like me! Best of Luck!

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By kandarat s

Aug 7, 2021

Good

By Yudho S

Sep 21, 2020

good

By 121912801008 g

Sep 11, 2020

Good

By Rafat A

Aug 29, 2017

good

By Mohamed T A

Aug 8, 2017

good

By Deleted A

Aug 3, 2019

The course is very helpful, for anyone at the beginner's level. It provides very useful hints and insights. I would have given the course five stars, if I also would have had a lesson, which helped practise critical writing and in this writing learning how to correctly embed the work of researches. As it is a crucial task for anyone writing a thesis or a dissertation. I find the pace and explanations very adequate.

By Sataporn B

Jul 17, 2021

It was a great experience enrolling in this course. I think the course can be improved a lot more if the instructors give more examples according to the lectures. I sometimes found it hard to understand the lessons because there were not enough examples. Moreover, I think it will be better to have more videos where instructors teach us instead of self-reading assignments. Thank you so much.

By Deonisia

Mar 17, 2017

I was studied about academic writing but did not finish, still reading on recommend references. Academic writing tells about communicative what is the objective of the essay who is your audience. Academic writing looks about the flow and writibg style. It avoid writing in short form like can't and ensures vocabulary.

By Diego M

Feb 6, 2017

Has plenty of material, the activities are most of the time very useful. I spent a lot of time reading the AWELU material and other web references, that were extremely valuables for me; however, the videos sometimes are not very productive and slow paced and some activities came very often and were not needed.

By Ant M K

Oct 20, 2024

The course provides necessary techniques and methods for academic writing at a university level. However, this is not a self-contained course. I had to buy additional books for the reading section. So, be wary of the extra costs following the course.

By Staffan

Jun 29, 2022

The course was absolutely awesome. However, I would suggest if Lund University can, to add a few writing tasks like academic essay writing along with the content that would be great, as this will help apply the concepts learned in the course.

By Fatima t Z A S

Dec 10, 2022

It's a good course for students who want to improve their academic writing. This course helped me out in writing better essays and assignments at the university level.

By Raju P G

Jul 27, 2020

I found this course very much useful. I completed my course but I have not been offered my certification. I could not know what should I do. Please suggest to me.

By mayumi i

Oct 6, 2024

This course is very helpful to learn formal English writing, especially for non-native English speakers.

By Maria I B

Jul 30, 2024

it is very helpful as I gained competence and confidence to teach this at at he university. Thanks.

By Rui M

Sep 24, 2023

An interesting and challenging online course for those who are dealing with academic writing.

By Kamilla T

Oct 17, 2023

A helpful tool, which guides students quite well through the entire process of writing.

By Nao W

Mar 6, 2022

I got basic writing skills from this couse. It was easy to understand.

By David G B

May 26, 2017

Excellent! Just need a bit of improvement on the tests.

By Massimo D

Feb 19, 2023

Thank you very well done. this Course helps me a lot.

By Amirheckmat T

Aug 28, 2018

Very good and informative course. Useful materials.

By SWATHI H G

Dec 20, 2019

Very good course to take for English writing.

By 周东升

Mar 16, 2019

nice

By Warisra W

Sep 24, 2017

good