<p>I should also mention that while I got an abysmal score on the SAT II Writing section, I wound up with a 5.5/6 on the GRE, and I can assure you my writing didn’t improve much during those four years.</p>
<p>Thinking back to my freshman year with my only English class I got a lot of criticism from my professor for my writing style. I wound up with a B, which I was happy enough with. Most of my engineering professors were very happy with how I wrote. I also took a technical writing class my final semester to fill up some space, and I felt it was about a million times more useful than any English class I had ever taken. I was already a succinct writer to begin with, but that class helped me understand when I needed to expand on ideas a little more in order to help my reader understand what I was writing about.</p>
<p>I’d actually recommend your son take a technical writing/presentation class if he has the chance; it’ll probably be a lot more useful, and interesting, than any other sort of composition class.</p>