<p>ucbalumnus,</p>
<p>“Writing about any subject requires organizations and presentation of your thoughts. By “write” do you mean specifically for those outside the subject (e.g. writing about engineering for a non-engineering reader), or writing about humanities or social studies subjects?”</p>
<p>Of course, writing requires those things - but those things do not necessarily require WRITING.</p>
<p>We have other primary avenues for presentation of thought than narratives such as what you would typically think of as a “paper”, or an “essay” or similar. Most of the “writing” is brief and technical consisting of a few sentences followed by a chart, a diagram, a list of standards, etc. It doesn’t really REQUIRE the skill that most think of as “writing”.</p>
<p>It’s REALLY REALLY advantageous and wonderful if one HAS that skill, but moderate skills in that area are all that are necessary to succeed in some more technical fields.</p>