Getting Started with Essay Writing

I just googled something quick and came up with this:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/getting-started-with-essay-writing

Looks like it's part of this:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/academic-english

These are 2 online courses that should cover what you need:

https://www.edx.org/course/how-write-essay-uc-berkeleyx-colwri2-1x-3

https://www.coursera.org/learn/getting-started-with-essay-writing

I'm not a video essayist nor any kind of essayist for that matter, but a few points that might help:

1. Why do you want to make essays if it's something you are not good at, I'm not saying don't do it, but why?
2. What do you want your essays to be about when regarding for example Anime, do you want to talk about the industry? the culture? A specific anime? What part of it do you want to writhe about or discuss, let me take an example: The YouTube channel [Under The Scope](https://www.youtube.com/c/UnderTheScopeReviews/videos) takes an in-depth look at certain animes (it also has other types of videos but we will ignore that for now). for now, we will look at two videos of his, video A " Land Of The Lustrous: A PERFECT Adaptation " and B " Worldbuilding is in the Details " while video A focuses on the comparison the manga and the anime while talking about the use of CGI in the anime and how rarely it's done well and more video B focuses on how world-building has been done in various animes. I bring this up cause you need to know what type of videos you want to make and why. Here is another interesting channel that focuses on the philosophy of an anime: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClmrEouTBM5JI7m2CGdjd9A/videos Like the previously mentioned channel this one also goes in-depth but with a different focus.
3. Know your target audience; before you start, take a minute to imagine who will be watching your videos, what do they already know? You don't want the tell something if the vast majority already knows the info. What language difficulty can you use, if you're making introduction videos for let's say Minecraft on how to play it you might want to use easy language as opposed as you were going to make a video essay on the logic behind the mechanics of the game.

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Coursera has a course of essay writing, that might help?: https://www.coursera.org/learn/getting-started-with-essay-writing

Getting Started with Essay Writing - University of California, Irvine - https://www.coursera.org/learn/getting-started-with-essay-writing

Writing in English at University - Lund University - https://www.coursera.org/learn/writing-english-university

Writing in the Sciences - Stanford University - https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite

English for Journalism - University of Pennsylvania - https://www.coursera.org/learn/journalism

Obviously you should find someone one with the right background to help you revise what you write. Revising and rewriting is essential to learning to write well. Remember when you were learning the fundamentals of writing well in secondary school? You had to write multiple rough drafts? All of the same things apply here.

Another method that I suggest people consider is the method that Ben Franklin used to teach himself to write. https://contently.net/2014/08/21/voices/frontlines/ben-franklin-taught-write-clever-tricks/

And as others have mentioned, read widely.