I Failed a Writing Assignment on Coursera

Fun fact: I am a full-time technical writer

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So, here’s the situation. I get paid to write. My job title: senior technical writer.

The title doesn’t matter. It doesn’t guarantee that I won’t make typos or that I’ll be a living example of grammatical perfection. It doesn’t make me a walking dictionary, nor an expert in the art of writing.

However… I sure as hell assumed it would mean I’d get a passing grade in this introductory technical writing course on Coursera.

Yeah. You know what they say about assuming.

I took this course, honestly, because I thought it would be easy. Before I jumped into the Google Cloud Platform courses, I figured I should get a hang of Coursera as a platform by taking something I could breeze through.

Well, I learned something about myself when I started this course: this type of learning is not for me.

I failed one of the quizzes twice.

Imagine a question like, “Which of the following things are important to include in Document X? Choose all that apply.” Get the correct combination of correct responses, or you get a zero for the question. There’s no partial credit. There’s no “You got 6 out…