15 Top Rated Writing Courses

Some of these courses are free. But if you decide to purchase anything through the links below, the editor of Personal Growth (Dan — that’s me writing this) will receive a percentage of the sale as a finders fee. Thank you for your support. None of these courses or websites are recommendations. All I know is the courses below seem to have high ratings. The descriptions below are copied and pasted from the host websites.

Academic English: Writing Specialization

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.

Writing With Flair: How To Become An Exceptional Writer

The potent tactics in this course, given as easy-to-digest key principles alongside strategic exercises, will help transform you into a masterful writer quickly. You’ll be armed forever with principles that can turn any piece of mediocre writing into something slick and memorable.

Grammar and Punctuation

This course is a refresher on some tools needed for good writing. 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

Ninja Writing: The Four Levels Of Writing Mastery

In this course, you’ll discover how to embed quality at every layer of your writing — whether it’s a blog, article, essay, cover letter, corporate report or content marketing. By the end, you’ll appreciate how one piece of writing can be strikingly beautiful while another, on the same subject, bores you to tears.

Creative Writing Specialization

Covers elements of short story, narrative essay, and memoir. You will master the techniques that good writers use to compose a bracing story, populated with memorable characters in an interesting setting, written in a fresh descriptive style.

Writing With Impact: Writing That Persuades

This course is jam-packed with no-nonsense advice on how to win people over with the written word. You’ll learn principles that can be applied to most types of non-fiction writing — including emails, reports, presentations, sales pages, advertising, blogs and more.

Writing Your Story

Celebrated journalist, novelist and memoirist Joyce Maynard will give you the tools you need to transform your brilliant idea into an absorbing memoir that readers won’t be able to put down. Maynard will walk you through the process of identifying your story and how best to tell it, and much more.

Editing Mastery: How To Edit Writing To Perfection

In this course you will learn how top editors do their magic. How to professionally edit almost any type of nonfiction writing, and how to improve your own writing exponentially.

Wired for Story: How to Become a Story Genius

Lisa Cron has helped thousands of aspiring writers master the power of story so they can write a novel or memoir capable of riveting readers. In this class, you’ll learn: What your readers’ brain is hardwired to crave in every story they read. How to write a first draft that reads like a fifth draft, and cut down rewriting in the process. How to become a more confident writer, and more.

Telling Your Truth Through Writing — A Conversation

NYT bestselling author Ayelet Waldman dives into her approach to constructing narratives, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of memoir writing. Starting with the importance of authenticity, she’ll address the most common choices writers make during the creative process.

Write a Story

In this class, you’ll learn tools, advice, and tips on how to get started with creative writing. Josh Mohr will walk you through 9 creative writing prompts that you can share or keep for yourself, and be on your way to becoming an active writer.

How to Write and Publish an eBook

In this class, you’ll learn how to choose your idea and create an outline. Use what you’ve got to write your book fast. Edit and format your book so you can distribute it on a number of platforms. Publish your book on your own website or Amazon. Market your book and get people reading it.

Telling Your Truth Through Writing — A Conversation

NYT bestselling author Ayelet Waldman will dive into her approach to constructing narratives, focusing specifically on the challenges and opportunities of memoir writing. Starting with the critical importance of authenticity and honesty, and more.

Write Your Book: Start Strong and Get It Done

Author, teacher and book coach Jennie Nash will help you learn about your characters, your structure and your story so you can stop staring at a blank page wondering what to write next and instead move forward with confidence. You’ll get to know your story inside and out so that this time, you’ll finally finish your book — and finish strong.

Starving to Successful: How to Become a Full-Time Writer

Jeff Goins will teach you how to stop self sabotaging and get you to break that mental block so you can see yourself as a profitable writer. He will then help you identify which type of writer you want to be to set you on a path to profitability.