I can understand your complaint about this kind of course. Indeed, there are many courses in the university that are not very beneficial to future social practice, such as "applied writing" you mentioned. Writing should take different forms according to the content and purpose, but "practical writing" pursues a fixed format and form, making it look like an ancient "eight-part essay", which is boring.

But then again, for credit, subjects and courses still have to be learned; This truth is the same as working in the society in the future, and it is the same for "five buckets of rice". Only by knowing how to adapt can we go better and further.