This class provides excellent, focused opportunities to develop your writing skills. Most of you have at most 3 years before you hit the job market. Your employers will assume that you already know how to write, otherwise you would not have made it through four years of college. Imagine taking a job that requires some writing, yet not have the skills to do it well.
Good writing reflects careful research, good logic and impeccable organization.
As you do your research and assimilate information, take notes on the most important points that you will make in the paper. Also take notes on evidence or examples that you will use to support each point. Make an outline of your paper. This is critical. Even professional writers use outlines to guide their prose.