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My On DEMAND two-part college essay & application course series FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES:

1. How to Write an Outstanding Personal Statement

This on demand course for writing the 650-word main essay of the Common Application that nearly every college and university requires.

We provide step-by-step instructions from brainstorming your essay topic to polishing your final draft.

Part 1 of the How to Apply to College video course series for students.

2. How to Create a Compelling College Application + Supplemental Essays

This on demand course covers the rest of the college application. Dozens of resources for developing a college list, finishing all the school-specific supplemental essays, polishing the activities list and more.

Part 2 of the How to Apply to College video course series for students.

Applying to Highly Selective Colleges and Universities

A mini-video course with the College Essay Guy Team.

This course empowers and informs students with their sights set on selective schools, offering an “inside look” at how these admissions decisions are made and how to best advocate for themselves in the application process.

How to Stand Out With Common Personal Statement Topics

In this mini-course, we cover important factors to consider when picking a topic, why not all common topics are created equal, and how to know when it’s probably best to start from scratch with a new essay topic

Uncommon Applicant: Build a Self-Directed Project

An Online Course & Community for Building a Self-Directed Project.

We’ll answer questions like, what are your core values and how do they manifest in your life? How do you lead? Are you more comfortable out front (envisioning big ideas) or in a supporting role (helping others get things done)?

How To Write the UC Personal Insight Questions

8 Personal Insight Questions. 9 Schools. Let’s Do This.

5+ Hours of Video Lessons Covers All 9 University of California Schools 48-Page Workbook with Exercises and Sample Essays

How to Make College Affordable

This comprehensive, pay-what-you-can course — intended for 9th to 12th graders and their families — will guide you through pretty much all the things you need to know when it comes to paying for college. Learn how to navigate through the terrain of financially affording college for you and your family.

How to Build a Great College List

Join Ethan and Dr. Antonoff to discuss finding colleges that meet your academic goals, social goals, financial goals, and even more!

The Mission: Identifying colleges where you will both get in and fit in!

The Method: Four hours of expert list-building advice with a nationally-recognized expert.

The Advanced Personal Statement Course

Uplevel your college essay with 4 brand new techniques that go beyond our flagship personal statement course.

This course is the result of requests from students to share (even) more tools for digging deep and standing out on their college essays.

Other Resources for STudents

COLLEGE ESSAY ESSENTIALS

A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Successful College Admissions Essay

ETHAN SAWYER IS THE COLLEGE ESSAY GUY  |  ★★★★★ “That kind of says it all. While he may have named himself that, he has earned the title. His passion for writing essays that is conveyed in this book, will help any student get through the somewhat stressful and daunting process with fun and ease."  – gonzo14, Amazon Customer

The complete guide to the college interview

Everything you need to know about preparing for a successful college interview.

This 18-Page E-book includes:

an electronic interview workbook to follow along

principles and exercises for guiding the interview towards your best self without sounding forced

the "so what" game to help you take your interview one step deeper

Plus So Much More.

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE “WHY US” ESSAY

Everything you need to write an awesome "Why Us" essay for any school.

This 20-Page E-book includes:

Five Dos and Don'ts for your Why Us Essay

How NOT to write your “Why us” essay

What you SHOULD write in your “Why us” essay

All the resources you need to learn about a particular school

Six Great “Why us” Examples (And Why Each One Is Great)

Here’s what Students Are Saying About My Courses

I didn't know how to write an essay at all, but by taking this course now I really know how to write one. It encouraged me to think about the challenges I've faced in my life and their impact on me. The first exercise made me to go and look at my Scrapbook and photos and this really made me happy. This course helped me in writing an essay while bringing my memories back, which made me realize that I'm capable of reaching my goals and I'm strong. -Ana, Student 2017

"The past week, was more of a journey than a tutorial for my personal statement. Before the course, I was looking outwards for inspiration. My week with Ethan taught me to find inspiration within myself, but best of all, he provided me the tools to put it on paper." -Jonathan, Student (2017)

"I feel like I've learned how to crystallize my most important core values in a ridiculously small word limit, which is a unique skill I wouldn't have learned otherwise. In the process of taking this course and learning from Ethan, I really feel like I've learned so much about myself . I think you'll come away from this course with a new outlook on both the college process and yourself." - Sarah (2018)

" Before this course , I had one extracurricular activity that overlapped in all four of my personal insight question. Afterwards I was amazed how the beabies, feelings and needs exercise, and example essays helped me discover aspects of myself that I never thought I'd feel comfortable talking about. Now all four of my essays focus on different aspects of me which I'm proud of ." -Shazaib S, Student

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Essay and report writing skills

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Writing reports and assignments can be a daunting prospect. Learn how to interpret questions and how to plan, structure and write your assignment or report. This free course, Essay and report writing skills, is designed to help you develop the skills you need to write effectively for academic purposes.

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• identify strengths and weaknesses
• understand the functions of essays and reports
• demonstrate writing skills.

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Academic English: Writing Specialization

Transform Your Writing Skills. Prepare for college-level writing and research in just four courses.

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The skills taught in this Specialization will empower you to succeed in any college-level course or professional field. You’ll learn to conduct rigorous academic research and to express your ideas clearly in an academic format. In the final Capstone Project, all the knowledge that you’ve gained over the span of these courses will culminate into an academic research paper on an issue of your choice.

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Course 1: Grammar and Punctuation

Do you need to review English grammar? Have you forgotten the grammar you once studied? If so, this course is perfect for you. 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. Writing is a skill and to learn a skill well, you need to practice. In this course, you will watch short video lectures and then practice and discuss what you have learned. Make sure you take good notes and use the peer discussions to ask questions. Then you'll be able to remember the rules you learn in this course when you start writing essays in the next course. After completing this course, you will be able to: - identify the correct verb tenses to use - use commas effectively - utilize several different sentence types - write more effectively in English Please note that the free version of this class gives you access to all of the instructional videos and handouts. The peer feedback and quizzes are only available in the paid version.

Getting Started with Essay Writing

Course 2: Getting Started with Essay Writing

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. After completing this course, you will be able to: - create effective thesis statements for your essays - plan and write compare/contrast, cause/effect, and argument essays - write well-developed body paragraphs Note: The lectures and practice activities are available for free, but you must upgrade to the pay version in order to take the quizzes and get feedback on writing assignments.

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Course 3: Advanced Writing

This is the third course in the Academic English: Writing specialization. By raising your level of academic writing, this course helps prepare you for college-level work. After completing this course, you will be able to: - plan and write a more sophisticated argument essay - identify plagiarism and explain how to prevent it - read and analyze several articles to form your own opinion on a topic - make connections between several articles - form thesis statements from your readings - use sources effectively when writing an essay Please note that the free version of this class gives you access to all of the instructional videos and handouts. The peer feedback and quizzes are only available in the paid version.

Introduction to Research for Essay Writing

Course 4: Introduction to Research for Essay Writing

This is the last course in the Academic Writing specialization before the capstone project. By the end of this course, you will be able to complete all the steps in planning a research paper. After completing this course, you will be able to: - choose appropriate research topics for college classes - write detailed outlines for research papers - find source material for research papers - take and organize good notes for research - use appropriate academic tone and language - document sources by creating a Works Cited list in MLA format - avoid plagiarizing your sources

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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. You'll have several due dates throughout the capstone to help you stay on schedule.

In this capstone project, you will: - conduct research on an academic topic of your choice - create an outline to plan out your essay - write a short annotated bibliography to help you evaluate your sources - write a 7-8 page research paper - use source material correctly with MLA format

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How long does it take to complete the academic english: writing specialization.

Time to completion can vary based on your schedule, but most learners are able to complete the Specialization in about 4-6 months.

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What will I be qualified to do upon completing the Academic English: Writing Specialization?

You will be able to write well-researched, structured, and effective college essays using proper English grammar.

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10 Best FREE Online Writing Courses with Certificates (2024)

There are many beginner professionals who want to improve their writing skills and get ahead in their writing careers. Moreover, it is also not feasible for working professionals to go back to school and improve their scribing skills. Thankfully, you will find many online writing classes on the Internet that help you polish and enhance your writing and authoring skills.

Following is a handpicked list of the Top Online Writing Courses & Certifications to gather knowledge about this subject. The list contains both open source (free) and commercial (paid) courses.

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1) good with words: writing and editing specialization (coursera).

Specs: Duration: 4 hours a week | Pricing: Free | Certificate on Completion: Yes | Level: Beginner | Mobile apps: iOS and Android

Articles effectively communicate complex ideas and stories in a friendly, credible, and easy-to-follow way. This course, Good with Words , helps you learn how to write and publish an article of your own.

This free writing course explains how you can determine your writing approach, pitch your story to a publication, completely research your subject matter, and write and polish your article content. This course also discusses how you can submit a complete package to editors.

It is one of the best free online writing courses for new writers. It helps you to learn the skills you need to write a well-crafted article that connects with readers.

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• Determining Your Article Writing Approach
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• Creative ways to use syntax
• Polishing and Submitting Your Article
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2) Creative Writing Specialization (Coursera)

Specs: Duration: Approx. 6 months to complete (1 hour/week) | Pricing: Free | Certificate on Completion: Yes | Level: Beginner | Languages: English, Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Serbian, Chinese

This Creating Writing specialization course covers three important elements of writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir.

In this course, you will master the techniques that any good writer uses to create a story full of memorable characters. This beginner’s writing workshop also helps you to analyze and constructively evaluate peer writing. It is one of the best writing courses designed for anyone, from aspiring short story writers to established novelists.

• The Craft of Plot
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• Self-Paced learning option for students
• HD quality course videos
• Practice quizzes
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3) Creative Writing: Crafting Personal Essays with Impact (Skillshare)

Specs: Duration: 1 hour 1 minute | Certificate on Completion: Yes | Level: Intermediate

Creative Writing is an online proofreading course that shows how to give your writing more impact, regardless of its purpose. In this online course, the writer and journalist Tom Geller help you to search reasons for writing with the demonstration. The writer also teaches you how to use those reasons to drive the words you select and the tone you take.

The author of this course also shares his understanding of grammar and sentence structure for writing with maximum impact. After completing this free online writing course, you will be equipped with plenty of practical writing tips to make your writing clear and crisp.

• Meaning of writing with impact
• Learning about your Readers
• Understanding How People Read
• Key Idea: Looking Inward and Outward
• Helps you qualify for continuing education units.
• Professional author instructor.
• Certificate on completion.

4) Secret Sauce of Great Writing (Udemy)

Specs: Rating: 4.5 | Duration: 41 minutes of on-demand video | Pricing: Free | Certificate on Completion: Yes | Level: Intermediate

Secret Sauce of Great Writing is a course designed by Shani Raja. This course will teach you the four main concepts of good writing: Simplicity, Clarity, Elegance, and Evocativeness. It will also help you learn how to add those ingredients skillfully.

At the end of this online writing course, you will have a good grasp of how professional writers create powerful and beautiful prose. In this online writing course, you can quickly identify your writing weaknesses, understand the principles, and fix and improve it significantly.

• The Secret Sauce of Flair
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5) Essay Essentials: Improve Your Academic Writing (Udemy)

Specs: Rating: 4.4 | Duration: 1hr 14min of on-demand video | Certificate on Completion: Yes

Essay Essentials: Improve Your Academic Writing is a video course that helps you learn how to write essays. This free writer’s course will help you find the essay writing success you deserve by learning essay writing foundations.

• How the writing situation, process, and classroom resources.
• Brainstorm to create and use ideas that help you to develop the essay.
• Develop and structure introduction and conclusion paragraphs.
• Write a clear, specific, and well-connected thesis.
• Understand the organization of essay paragraphs.
• How to create detailed, specific, and appropriate content.
• Proof-read spelling and grammatical errors using helpful rules and tips.
• Certificate of completion accredited by universities.

6) Writing With Confidence: Writing Beginner To Writing Pro (Udemy)

Specs: Duration: 5 hours 50 minutes | Pricing: $24.99 | Certificate on Completion: Yes | Level: Intermediate | Mobile apps: iOS and Android

Writing With Confidence is an online course that helps you create ad copy that effectively conveys your brand and drives traffic to convert clicks into sales. The course designer Michael Duquet also teaches you the rules for writing ads for different platforms.

The author of this course, Clare Lynch, explains how you can change your message and tone according to your target audience and customer personality.

In the last chapters, you will learn about Create musical sentences that readers can’t resist.

• Rules of Ad Copy Writing
• Ad Copy Goals
• Writing Ad Copy for various media
• Understanding Your Audience
• Personas and Tone
• Do and Don’ts.

7) Craft Your Cover Letter (Udacity)

Specs: Duration: Approx. 1 Day | Pricing: Free | Certificate on Completion: Yes | Level: Beginner

Craft Your Cover Letter is a short course where you will learn to use proven writing techniques to show why you are the best person to do this job.

In these writing classes for beginners, you will also learn how to research company values, target your writing pitch, and develop an authentic story. It offers the research and writing tools you need to show why you are the best person for the specific job!

• Target your applications to specific opportunities.
• Students are able to understand the purpose of a cover letter.
• Write an effective introduction, body, and conclusion.
• Rich Learning Content
• Interactive Quizzes
• Instructor videos
• Learn by doing exercises.
• Taught by industry professionals.

8) Write a Book! (Udemy)

Specs: Rating: 4.3 | Duration: 30 hours on-demand video | Certificate on Completion: Yes

Write a Book is an online writing course offered by Udemy. This course explains how to organize and begin writing a short story, novel, or nonfiction book with concepts similar for each form. This online course is ideal for someone looking to grasp the fundamentals of writing using the English language.

• Learn to write basics, like including punctuation, sentences, paragraphs, etc.
• Learn about advanced writing techniques.
• Learn to write short nonfiction books.
• The advanced dialog to draw the reader into your story.
• How to use MS PowerPoint to create a book cover.
• How to discover your writing style.
• Learn how to self-edit your book manuscript.
• 28 articles
• Full lifetime access for students
• Access on mobile and TV
• Certificate of completion

9) The Complete Freelance Writing Course (Udemy)

Udemy offers a wide range of writing courses. This Complete Freelance Writing Course can be viewed on all devices connected to the Internet. You do not require any prequalification to take this course.

Udemy is an online platform that helps you create courses for business, writing, design, marketing, etc. You can develop new skills and achieve your goals by taking training and learning from the extensive library of various Udemy courses.

• Understand different forms of writing styles and methods as per target audience.
• Learn best practices for Blog Writing.
• Learn how to do screenwriting to tell a compelling story.
• Develop methods that help you to stay productive as a writer.

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10) Online Creative Writing Classes (Skillshare)

Skillshare is an online course platform that is focused on education. It includes various topics related to graphic design, data science, e-commerce, analytics, etc. This online course will expand your horizons to learn more about creative writing. You can try these online classes that teach about creative writing techniques, tools, and topics like character development, outlining, storytelling, creating a compelling plot, and how you can make your words more artful.

This course helps you to enhance and helps you to create character-driven stories with creative writing prompts. This online class is broken down into short lessons that include hands-on projects to complete and share.

• Learn creative writing in various genres like fiction, poetry, humor, etc.
• It helps you to find classes that are designed for real life.
• Get ideas for writing daily journals.
• Real creators teach the classes.
• You can learn from any device.

11) Write A Feature Length Screenplay For Film Or Television (Coursera)

Specs: Rating: 4.5 | Duration: Approx. 93 hours to complete | Pricing: Free | Certificate on Completion: Yes | Level: Beginner | Mobile apps: iOS and Android | Mobile Compatible: Yes

Write A Feature Length Screenplay For Film Or Television teaches you how to write a feature-length screenplay for film or television or web-series. In this screen playwriting course, you will also learn to break down the creative process into components. You will also discover a structured process that helps you produce a polished and pitch-ready script.

Completing this online course helps you to improve your confidence in your ideas and abilities. After learning this online course, you will feel prepared to pitch your first script and start with the next one.

• Creating The Idea.
• Logline and Dramatic Question.
• Create your character profile.
• The Three Act Story Arc.
• Screenplay Formatting and Software.
• Begin your screenplay.
• Write the final section.
• Table read your entire script.
• Finishing things up.

12) Start Writing Fiction (Future learn)

Specs: Rating: 4.7

Start Writing Fiction is a course that helps you to create how to develop your ideas, which reflect on your writing and editing. This online writing class is intended for those interested in writing fiction or improving their fiction writing.

• Creation of characters in fiction
• Different sources for characters in stories
• Ways of presenting characters in stories
• Reading as a writer
• Writing skill like creativity, research, observation, and editing
• It provides the freedom to keep access to any online course you’ve achieved a digital certificate of.
• It offers the flexibility to complete your choice of short courses in your own time within the year.

Link: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/start-writing-fiction

13) English Writing Skills–Revised (Alison)

Specs: Rating: 2.5 | Duration: 1.5-3 Hours | Pricing: Free | Certificate on Completion: Yes | Level: Intermediate | Mobile apps: iOS and Android | Mobile Compatible: Yes

English Writing skills is a free online English language course that will guide you through the most important English writing styles. It shows you how and when to apply each one verb and improve your knowledge about the correct usage of punctuation and grammar.

This online writing course helps you express yourself clearly and effectively in your writing. This online learning material also helps you fulfill your dream of becoming a professional writer or improving your English writing.

• English Writing Skills
• English-Writing
• Story Writing
• Descriptive Writing
• Science Fiction, Nonfiction, Instructional, Opinionative
• Reflective Writing

Link: https://alison.com/course/english-writing-skills-revised

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Here are some important guidelines for selecting an online writing course:

A. Identity your goal:

First, you need to find out your goal. Like you want to learn basic writing skills like improving your grammar, you want to learn notification writing, fiction writing, nonfiction writing, etc.

B. Set your course budget:

Then you need to decide yourself how much money you want to spend, both in terms of time and money. There are many free online writing courses. However, if you want to learn an advanced creative writing course, then you need to pay for that.

C. Pick a Commitment Level:

It is certainly the most important aspect for selecting the online writing course. How much daily or weekly time can you spend learning the course. There are many online courses that are completely self-paced, which means you work through the material on your own and take time as much as you want.

Here are some important Pros and Cons of Online Writing Classes:

• These courses are meant for independent study, so you can learn at your own pace.
• Some courses do not even have homework assignments, writing exercises, or time constraints.
• Online courses give you exclusive information and learning materials.
• You are able to interact and learn with other writers using online communities, which helps you learn to write skills.
• Online writing course sometimes not allows any personal touch of classroom writing courses.
• You will never have face-to-face interactions with associate learners.
• Some online writing courses have no instructor feedback.
• The quality and price of online writing courses vary greatly.

Here are some of the best writing apps which help you to write professional letters:

• Grammarly: Grammarly is a widely used writing enhancement tool. It offers numerous writing styles, suggestions for grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. You can use this tool via the website, as a browser extension, or as an app that you can download to your computer.
• Prowritingaid: Prowritingaid is a tool that offers a world-class grammar and style checking facility. It helps you to edit documents faster. This software includes more than 1000 styles to improve your writing skills.
• Microsoft Word: Microsoft Word is a writing app that helps you transform documents into web pages. It offers a real-time translation facility with just one tap. This program enables you to read and edit documents attached to the email.
• Calmlywriter: Calmlywriter is free writing software. This online application is designed to help you focus on your writing skills. It has a “focus mode” option that can highlight the paragraph you are writing.
• FocusWriter : It is a writing tool that enables you to access the interface by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. The software helps you to translate the content into more than 20 languages. It helps correct spelling effortlessly.

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