If you can understand and implement literary devices, writing a report is as straightforward as it gets whereas it's not true the other way around. There's been previous talk about clinical settings and other scientific positions where knowledge of literature isn't necessary and/or helpful. This is untrue. It's about expressing yourself to a bigger audience who may not be as learned in your field. As a Pharmacist, you can't expect your patient to understand pharmacology and receptor theory so you have to explain yourself differently. Same with being a chemist, biologist or physicist. Being able to portray a situation in more than one dimension is the objective and that's where your basic knowledge of English comes in.