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3 credits; 3 lecture hours

ES 129 is a writing intensive course designed to develop students’ writing and oral communication skills. Students will be expected to generate 25 or more pages of writing. Students will write a personal essay requiring them to integrate others’ ideas with their own, a persuasive essay and a research paper. In addition, students will give an oral presentation on their research for the final paper. Different genres of writing will be explored through a variety of readings, discussion, free writing and more formal writing. Attention will be paid to the writer’s audience, voice, the writing process, lexical usage, syntax and editing.
Prerequisite(s): ES 023 and ES 123 or appropriate score on FIT English Placement Test.
Corequisite(s): ES 029.