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This 3-credit course is designed for students who have already taken an introductory writing course, such as EWP 190 (Writing and the Environment) and Advanced English. It aims to help students develop and sharpen college-level literacy skills of analysis, argumentation, and critical thinking as well as other rhetorical knowledge and multimodal competence that are required for success in communicating interdisciplinary knowledge and concepts in BS Bioprocess/BS Paper Engineering and other technical fields in the 21st century. Among other topics, students will critically analyze scholarly works on nature and the environment as expressed by selected writers and undertake a research project with a focus on one issue related to bioprocessing and the environment. Frequent informal and formal writing assignments along with research and documentation are required.