This is really useful and informative course for both beginners and advanced level researchers. I learned many practical things from this course which will continue to help me throughout my academic career. I suggest some reordering of the units for future editions of the course: for example: the first three units delved right into the sentence-level editing. It would be much more efficient and engaging if the next editions start right from the pre-writing phase (unit 4 of the current course).

I think the videos are very helpful, especially for getting out of the protocol past tense writing that is common in science. I do wish there was more monitoring of the peer reviews. I do not think they are very helpful. Someone gave me a "bad grade" becuause they didn't know how to open my file. Someone left a very inappropriate comment and I didn't see a way to reprot it. So monitoring of the peer reviews would be great.

Overall, it is a great course to learn how to write scientific literature in a clean, concise and accurate manner.

The first weeks have good material to learn and the exercises/homework are a must to learn how to write better.

One thing I found lacking was that it only medicine related. the examples, the journals, the guests, etc. Other areas of science would be better to see in what they are common, and in what they differ.

Very informative, most of the information is presented in a way that is easily viewed and understood. The biggest con is that when the edits/markups are performed using pen/pencil on the slides are basically impossible to see on the Coursera format. If we could view them full screen or as actual slides it might be easier, but to try to follow someone's edits verbally is really difficult. Overall the course was fantastic!

The course offers you all the fundamental and comprehensive guidelines in a very practical and easy to understands way.Dr.Kristin Sainani is a great tutor. I loved the optional editing videos, they really gave me an insight into editing. I would recommend this course to everyone who wants to hone his/her skills in Scientific Writing. I hope Coursera comes up with more such courses on scientific and medical writing.

this course have a variety of interesting tools to learn,me as a foregein,make me able to understand all the contents and have a clear guide of how to resolve the HW.I recommend this course to people that want to increase their writing skills.Althought it say "Writing In Science" but i think that only cover the medical area but the many of the advices can be easy use in other areas of science.

This was a very well-structured course. The practice assignments were helpful and I feel like it was a really nice refresher or introduction in scientific writing - in all of its forms. Dr. Sainani is a very good instructor. She clearly and concisely explained each topic. I felt the section on references tended towards some opinion on Dr. Sainani's part, but it was very useful to hear.

Excellent content and presentations by Dr Sainani, I learned many good techniques and tips. The grant writing videos by guest speakers are a bit dry and lack Dr Sainani's drive, but nonetheless contain important information. Some good reading list recommendations. I highly recommend this course, and although some of it is looking very slightly dated the writing and gammar tips never age.

Thank you for very very useful course. the material was very good. I have some suggestions:

1_ Add more example from other fields

2_Some parts are so long and boring, please omit parts longer than 18 minutes

3_Introduce articles and summaries that are very excellent from technical point of view

4_Provide conditions where participants are encouraged to participate more in the discussion

Overall I really liked this course. Even with many years of experience in writing and publishing papers, I learnt a lot. There were certain instances where I did not agree with Dr. Sainani's recommendations. But one's writing choice and style sometimes boils down to personal taste and the scientific content. I hope there is an advanced version of this course in the near future.

The course on writing in science is excellent and informative which provides all the necessary guidance on how to approach scientific writing and delivers necessary insight on the peer review process as well as how to effectively communicate and share the data in the scientific as well as public domain. This course will benefit young as well as experienced researchers.

I really enjoyed the beginning part of this course, with lots of tips on how to remove clutter, cut out jargon and improve clarity. The latter part of the course- discussing how to do media interviews etc. didn't feel like it belonged in the course. I loved the parts that focused on preparing manuscripts, as that will have a lot of value to me down the road.

This was a really great course and was worth my time. It provided me with a number of strategies to make my science writing clear and succinct without losing important scientific concepts needed for my field. It also had me consider best practices in summarizing my findings for audiences outside of my field, outside of science, and for the public.

Very valuable and giving non-credit course! I learned a lot that I will be applying for my next manuscript! Some of the material was a bit outdated unfortunately (videos clearly filmed in 2012, and homework relating to articles from 2017 that had since then been retracted and were irrelevant), but otherwise it was great!

I really liked this course.

Kristin is very concise and straight-to-the-point kind of teacher.

It gave me a nice overlook about scientific writing.

My only critic would be that this course is more focused on medical and natural sciences.

I would love to see a version of it focused in human sciences in the future.

Good course for basics of writing science papers if you've never done this before. I think it might have helped me prior to my first master's degree...but having done one already, there was very little here that I hadn't learned on my own. Still, a good overview if you're new to this sort of writing.

This is an amazing online course! It was possible to learn how to enhance our scientific writing and also to perceive that the more simple and concise, the more readable will be our manuscript. Thanks to all teachers and professionals who donate their time to students all over the world.

Excellent course. Dr. Kristin Sainani shares her knowledge and expertise in 8 weeks of simple and complete lessons. I encourage every person involve in Science to take a course like this. Communication and dissemination of your research is as important as the research itself.

First few units were fantastically helpful as a post-grad entering into a psychology masters after a long break rom academia!

I felt the last few units were too specific for me at this point of my studies: i would have personally preferred two separate courses

Many thanks!

This course is applicable to both beginning and experienced writers. I took this course as a refresher and found it worthwhile. Units 1-6 were most helpful with units 7-8 less so but these units are focused on those in Academia. Overall, a good course and worth the time.

I thoroughly enjoyed the course. It challenged me coming from a non-scientist background. I work in a hospital and am exposed daily to medical terms which is what brought me to the course. Overall I feel that I improved my skill set which allows me to advance my career.

Thank you Dr. Kristin Sainani for your wonderful lecture, facilitated learning by making this course easier and I've improved my writing skills significantly. Thanks to Coursera for bringing Writing in the Sciences, and I recommend everyone to enroll in this course.

The course was very informative and easy to understand for a lay person like me who has no relation to medicine or academiics . kristin was brilliant.. I loved the course. My only suggestion is to use non scientific examples sometimes so It'd be easier and more fun.

It is a very useful introduction to writing in the sciences covering most areas of scientific communication. I was already experienced in writing articles so that part felt a little bit lengthy for me. Thank you very much for this course, I have enjoyed it a lot.

Every type of science-related writing is explained; some extraordinary and some boring. But the course is very fulfilling and definitely worth your while. It polishes your knowledge of writing and gives you the proper meaning of writing in the sciences. Good luck