While writing in and of itself is not connected to field knowledge. You really need to be a good writer to be an effective communicator. One of the university

While writing in and of itself is not connected to field knowledge. You really need to be a good writer to be an effective communicator. One of the university degrees I did (effectively an arts degree) involved doing a lot of essay writing as part of the major. While I don7t really use the field knowledge I studied in the degree I credit my reasonably ok writing ability to all essays I wrote - which I have put to good use in writing technical reports and user documentation that no one else wanted to write because it was seen as beneath them. Even with the ability to catch copy-pasters with tools such as turn it in, there is always private essay/thesis writers you can hire (there was an article from one of these writers sometime last year). I just have to trust that despite a fancy degree, the cheaters get caught out in the place where it really matters - the workplace.