Essay and report-writing is already part of the curriculum for these preparing to get into a CS school. I do not think demanding from students to explain what t

Essay and report-writing is already part of the curriculum for these preparing to get into a CS school. I do not think demanding from students to explain what the poet was thinking or to learn spanish will help them with writing CS papers, if anything I would argue that the reverse is true. In addition I would argue that most CS papers are well written.