I'm a computer science major and took the bare minimum when it came to English and decided against a school because they made too many English requirements for CS majors.

Luckily my SATs where high enough that I only had to take one English class in college. I enjoyed the class because I had a good teacher but if it wasn't required and was just a suggested elective I would have taken anything else. I found the business writing class more practical although I skipped it for speech. The good thing is because people like me exist technical writers are there to help with documentation.