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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Writing and Editing: Revising by University of Michigan

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About the Course

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. You’ll practice “un-numbing the numbers” so that data and statistics you use are clear and compelling. And you’ll be introduced to a framework for giving and receiving feedback that helpfully systematizes what should be cut and what should be kept from each draft. As with the other three courses in this series, you will also get access to a wide range of books and other resources you can use even after you finish the course. These include: (1) the readings and exercises provided to the students who have taken the in-person version of this course at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago; (2) two digital libraries of excellent writing from a diverse collection of journalists, scientists, novelists, poets, historians, and entrepreneurs; and (3) a monthly “Good Sentences” email....

Top reviews

AR

Aug 10, 2022

I did forget to leave this feedback on a previous review I gave, but I wish I had known this course was 4 of 4 prior to joining this class. I would have enjoyed taking the series in order.

GC

Aug 27, 2022

In this course, I reinforced my editing skills and learned many others. It is a dynamic course with practice exercises that will challenge your editing knowledge. I truly recommend it!

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By Uzair

Aug 9, 2021

Really very good.

By Liza M R C

Apr 9, 2022

nice and helpful

By Lilian B

May 25, 2021

Excellent course

By Khushalee c C

Jul 18, 2020

good expriance

By Angel A D C

Jun 22, 2023

Nice teacher.

By Ma. C Q

Feb 14, 2022

Marvelous!

By Nasir M

Nov 30, 2020

Excellent

By ELMER M P

Nov 6, 2022

excelent

By sergio a a

Jan 15, 2023

amazing

By Alvaro D C

Oct 23, 2021

Good

By Erikc D M M

Jun 23, 2023

nice

By Humberto A R R

Apr 19, 2023

good

By 121910315042 J P

Mar 29, 2022

nice

By 121910319026 V S K D B R

Mar 25, 2022

good

By Leslie J T P

Oct 16, 2021

ok

By Zlatica S H

May 20, 2021

Very good and well organized course. It appears to focus mostly on law, but it's still a valuable editing course.

One thing that needs fixing (or explaining in case I missed something) is to distinguish between paying and non-paying participants. I keep getting marked as "overdue" even thought I completed all the requirements by the due date. I think it is because I was not able to submit quizzes for grading since I was a non-paying student. It is still unfair to give me an "overdue" mark.

I come back a month later and find message that I did not complete assignments in time. Not true, as explained above. I'd like the course managers to mark this course "completed" because I completed everything by the original due date. Except quizzes that were locked to me.

By Santosh S

Oct 6, 2020

I enjoyed this course Prof. Patrick Barry of Michigan University. The course is about writing, and I learned so much about reading also. Professor covered so many good books on writing, non-fiction, fiction, authors and their stories, that my reading wish-list is expanded to multiple times. If you love writing, this is the course that you should take. And you will love it! And bonus, you will have completely different eye and perspective about writing.

By kevin d

Oct 31, 2021

Great series of courses overall. Unfortunately I do not have a lot or writing requirements right now so I would like to have had more assignments that were graded. Overall I like the regular sequence of each class as it will result in greater overall retention. Thank you for a high quality learning experience. Let me know if you plan to do anything new.

By Ayesha I C

Mar 16, 2023

To improve the Writing and Editing: Revising course, consider adding more hands-on practice exercises and elaborating on the topics covered in the course to provide more in-depth explanations and insights. This can help students gain a deeper understanding of the revision process and develop their writing and editing skills more effectively.

By Liubov

Jan 30, 2024

The course was interesting and insightful. It helped me to systematize the knowledge I had before and taught me how to work with writing and in the process of writing. I liked the concepts covered in this course. However, as a copy editor, I would appreciate more focus on editing than writing.

By Sonia S K

Jul 30, 2020

This was a good course on revising a write-up. The specialization of 4 courses was good and taught me some new ways of writing and revising texts. Prof. Barry is a good instructor. I loved the "punctuation and professionalism" segments and the quizzes. The classroom clips were also really good.

By Khayati S

Sep 26, 2021

Step by step you can understand how to come up with developing your writing skills. It gives you an elaborate guide of developing a piece writing it and editing it. Finally reading it out load in order to make sense.

By Lona I

Jan 29, 2022

Excellent course. It allowed me the flexibility to work at my pace.

By Mandar J

Jun 22, 2021

Very nicely designed course.

By José A F C

Jul 23, 2021

Very good!!