Essential Studies Goal:

Communication

You should be able to write and speak in civic, academic, and professional settings with a sense of purpose and audience.

Rationale: Communicating skillfully involves learning the conventions associated with writing and speaking and learning to write and to speak clearly to diverse audiences.

You will improve your communication skills when your ES courses ask you to practice the following, in written or oral assignments:

• Present information, express ideas, or construct arguments for particular purposes and audiences.
• Use critical thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation to create
• effective written or oral presentations.
• Present research, cite sources, and format documents in ways that are consistent with different disciplinary standards.