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This course is designed to help only those international students studying in a special cohort toward a Master's Degree in Applied Math and Statistics. It teaches advanced ESL students to communicate more effectively with a wide variety of specialized and non-specialized audiences in a professional setting with ESL-specific intensive help in grammar, pronunciation, idiomatic phrasing, and overall clarity for students whose native language is not English. Projects include brown bag lunch presentations, elevator pitches, job interviews, staying-on-the-job cultural notes, and business meetings. Class emphasizes writing clearly and persuasively, creating appropriate visuals, developing oral presentation skills, working in collaborative groups, giving and receiving feedback, and simulating real world environments in which most communication occurs. P/F grading only.