The Importance Of Reading And Writing

If you couldn’t read or write, how would you tackle your daily life? Being literate is a crucial part of everyone’s life; reading and writing are essential for a person’s success. Every single day, it’s used, whether it’s for an Advanced Placement Language class or reading a billboard as you’re driving past. As a child, I grew up reading on a daily basis and I believe that I am as successful as I am on behalf of it. Countless memories have been created, thanks to the multiple books that have been read and the umpteen amount of papers that I’ve written. Throughout the numerous years of my education, my teachers and parents left a long lasting impact on my reading and writing skills.

Growing up with my parents, I found reading to be very fun but for religious purposes and newspaper about the incidents taking place in certain countries. Through my parents, reading started to seem like it can be beneficial if we want to know what is going on in the world and the rules and regulations of one’s religion. Although I was required to read many books for school, my parents reading habits made me feel as if I should copy them. My mom and dad would always read books or newspapers at a certain time and sometimes discuss it with each other. My parents occasionally told me that I should leave aside school books at times and read the books they do because I can learn a lot and discover many things I did not realize before and

Learning how to read and write was a challenging task for me as a kid. I believe I couldn’t read until the second grade and that was embarrassing. Being a slow learner made me insecure, which hindered me from building the confidence I needed to succeed and get pass identifying with having a disability. Instead, I was enrolled into a special ed class that I had to leave my regular class to attend. During my special ed class all I could think about was how I couldn’t wait to get back to my regular class so I didn’t have to tell any of my classmate where I was. Therefore, my focus unfortunately wasn’t on learning, like it should have been!

Reading and writing are two of the most important tools in my life, because without them I would not have an education. They form the basis of a class; for example, completing a lab in chemistry would not be possible without following a written lab procedure. These two skills are taught at such a young age, and as education advances students must continue to strive to reach a higher level. I can remember in elementary school, we were always pushed to reach the next reading level once we had successfully mastered the one we were on. It was always a competition for my sister and I to be at a higher level, I usually won. Even though I was excelling in reading it was the complete opposite for writing. It is something that has never come easy

In the essay below I will be explaining how English composition and writing has really been a huge advantage to me.I will also be explaining how I use to think I was a fantastic writer until I got to college. The paragraph below goes into depth about how as I progressed into each grade my essays improved and how I came into college cocky and ended up starting from the bottom again.

Reading and writing is easy for us. We do it everyday. People read billboards driving down the street and we are constantly typing messages to companions on cell phones without giving it a second thought. This idea holds even more true in a college environment. Throughout schooling, students have developed and greatly improved their literacy skills and abilities. Even non-students are often on their phones, reading passages through social media or possibly writing a text to a friend. Language is all around us. Although literacy is all too familiar to the college student, there was a time when even the most intelligent human beings were unable to speak and or write. I personally can recall spelling my name for the first time on the kitchen table. I used my green crayola marker to draw three massive crooked letters.. B, E, N. I was proud of my work and my parents were excited. This was one of my first milestones in my literary journey, however I do not believe it to be the most significant.

I discussed this topic over with David Black during an interview. David is a Mathematics Instructor at Shawnee Community College. He teaches eight different courses of math. He teaches courses from Introduction to Algebra all the way to Trigonometry. Mr. Black has taught at SCC for twelve years. He attended Southeast Missouri State University during college. He went there for over four years. He has his Master’s degree as well as his Bachelor’s Degree. Mr. Black thinks that writing is important because it keeps you thinking, just like math. It is important to him because he uses it on a daily basis, especially on his job.

One of the most important priority for a law student is managing their time. Is a challenge, however, spending time writing and reading is productive. As a law student we must know that we must conducted ourselves in a professional matter. Having a great academies support team that will guide me to move forward is something to take advantage of starting from day one. As a law student we must know that when writing, analyzing comes after. We need to know the subject, the verbs, and the objects. Legal writing is completely different than what we are used to, but not impossible to accomplish. By reading a case we need to set our minds to think like a lawyer. The skills we learned in law school are key tools for success. One of the best formulas to analyzed a case is the elements + because + fact(s).

From a young age, reading and writing has always been important to me. It began with a children’s book about a bumblebee my mom repeatedly read to me to make me believe anything was achievable, even a bumblebee flying. Once I learned how to read for myself, a whole new world opened up to me with every story imaginable. As TV became the prevalent pastime before and after school, reading faded to the background, a thing of the past. However, writing continued to be something I did often, especially in school, where it was introduced to me in third grade. Eventually my writing had to evolve from creative and fictional to analytical and persuasive. I had to learn new skills and essay formats, proper grammar and spelling, and no longer felt the enthusiasm I once felt with creating a story of my own. Previously, my best work came when I had the freedom to write without regulation.

Writing is more complex than the naked eye can understand. Over thousands of years, writing has evolved, people have created their own styles, and many, many rules have been created. Through reading such as Verlyn Klinkenborg’s, “Several short sentences about writing’, along with Paul Graham’s, “The Age of the Essay”, the reader is taught to ‘notice what you notice’. The main message of these texts were to focus my mind on avoiding all the rules taught during high school, and to rather write well-thought out sentences that can be short but precise. Short sentences get the point across quicker and straight to the point. Klinkenborg strives to get across to the reader that sentences should be reworked, rethought, and possibly even thrown into the sentence graveyard before it is ever written onto paper. This can be seen when he says that, “Most of the sentences you make will need to be killed.” (Klinkenborg, 13). Sentences shouldn’t be meaningless strings of words combined into a prolonged statement called a sentence, but rather should act as a description of something one notices. Both authors get the point across that all pieces of work that were merely forced are easily distinguishable from those that are well-thought out and well-versed through effort and time.

Writing is a large part of understanding not just English, but all languages. It allows people to communicate with each other, look at the past, and for the schematics used for technology and buildings. Though many might distain the thought of it, writing is vital to everyday life and is a tool used around the world.

I have come to realize that writing is not only writing long papers. It can include any form of written communication. After graduating high school, I knew I wanted to be an engineer. From just looking in, I expected engineers not to write often. Engineering appeared to be just science and math. While researching, I came across an article about how effective communication is for 21st century engineers. After this, I knew I would be writing on the job. Writing helps current and future engineers communicate with people of other disciplines, understand tasks, and help improve ideas.

Everybody has a fond memory of laying around with their parents one evening reading a book out loud, but why is it that as we grow up our love of reading slowly disappears. This made me wonder, what about schools reading and writing programs makes students dislike the subjects so much? Many people believe majority of students start to grow an exponential disliking for reading and writing once it starts being routinely assigned. Once a student enters junior high reading and writing are no longer something people want to call a hobby, although it is not in vast amounts this is where schools start making a dent on students’ enjoyment of the subjects. Now in high school this is where they start the “preparing us for college” idea as they hand students an excessive amount of papers to read and analyze, all while trying to write multiple essays. Schools ruins students’ enjoyment for reading and writing because there is no freedom, classes are all about test preparation and the homework load is too much.

If you are able to understand this sentence and create one of your own, you are literate in the English language. Although literacy is often linked to reading and writing, literacy is so much more. It is the ability to completely comprehend a certain topic or subject. We are all literate in something, but the challenge is this- Are we able to overcome something that we are illiterate in? In this year of language arts, I will strive to prove that the answer to this question is, in fact, yes. I will work hard to make sure that I excel in all areas of language arts that I may struggled with in previous school years.

Reading and writing are both important; you can’t have one without the other. They are skills that are increased constantly due to little things that most times are not noticed. Whether it is from a book to a poem, there will always be a way that it helps out your school performance. Reading and writing in general only helps absorb information, and enhance leisure or school related writing tasks. It has also made life itself so much easier because reading and writing are so beneficial for school and for life. How much you read and write today, will somehow affect your future job, family, position, or even your salary.