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I was a professor in a STEM field and I remember once when I taught a kind of Gen Ed class in the field, one of the students was a history major. This student's writing ability blew me away compared to most of the typical kids in the STEM classes. I do think there is a place for the skills that are developed by the humanities majors. [/quote]

This makes me giggle because my husband (who barely graduated HS, joined the military, then did an EE degree PT as a working adult) had me help him with some of his papers while he was at Mason. Many of them were group projects. Those kids were TERRIBLE writers.(Many of them were TJ alums, too-Just throwing it out there) My husband freely admits that writing was never his strong point, whereas my liberal arts degree involved LOTS of writing. I was the annoying person who wrote all my papers the night before and still got decent grades.

Of course, my husband makes 3X what I do because he has a STEM degree. Writing isn't necessarily needed for that degree.[/quote]

So again it's another proof that good writing skill is much less of a value to the market and society.[/quote]

I'm not sure about society as a whole - people need to be able to communicate clearly.

Almost all universities require a writing course no matter what your major might be.

The "market" doesn't reward people for their communication skills, though.

Of course, our market is all jacked up when people can make millions as "influencers" or whatever the Eff the Kartrashians do.[/quote]

My DC school requires all freshman to take an intensive writing course.  You may NOT use AP credit to get out of it.  Then for all majors (including Engineering and STEM majors), there are 2 additional writing/communication courses that are specific for that major, so tweaked to be most useful for an engineer vs a marketing major. 
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