I actually think that my writing improved more during my CS degree than my history degree. In CS there was an emphasis on clarity, succinctness, and thinking a

I actually think that my writing improved more during my CS degree than my history degree. In CS there was an emphasis on clarity, succinctness, and thinking about how well you've communicated your ideas to your intended audience. Having said that, maybe the large volumes of writing practice from history made me receptive to those lessons. There were also a couple of history professors who were very good at cutting through overly flowery and insufficiently meaningful writing with comments like "where is your evidence for this?".