The Purpose Of Writing

Throughout my high school career, I never was eminently passionate about writing for the fun of it. In my English classes, I was always assigned to do what my teacher called “Timed Writings” where they would give a prompt to write about in a short amount of time. Like many, I was taught to write in the traditional format of the five-paragraph essays. I always found writing as a way of punishment from my teachers and disliked having to think ideas on what to write. When it was time to start writing, I would cry internally, sit in sorrow and think blankly. I would think to myself,

Writing has never come easy to me. It may be due to my short attention span or the fact I am not much of a reader. When I was younger

For some people writing is a very fun thing to do. However, there are some people who does not like to write. I can describe myself as a person who love to write all what comes to his head. I do not have the maximum possible motivation to write. As a person who is socially motivated, I find it very time-consuming to keep writing. On the other hand, I do not have much knowledge about writing making me to just write in an ordinary way. I also do not follow most of the writing requirements since I am not conversant with most of them.

When I think about my past experiences of writing, automatically what comes to my mind is how it has improved over the years. I think about high school when I used to get assigned a four-page paper and thought it was the end of the world. Now, the length doesn’t seem to bother me. Also, in my opinion, writing can be a tedious or pleasurable experience depending on the topic. I think that when writing about an interesting topic, writing can be a breeze. It can take me to another place like a good book does, forgetting all that is going on around me. However, when writing about a topic that is not so interesting it can be a tedious task that takes forever. In addition to having a topic that is interesting I think it is also important to have

In my opinion, writing is not that difficult to do. There are some challenges that I face when I start to write an essay. Things such as grammar, picking a topic, and sentence structure are three things that I find difficult about constructing an essay. Throughout this semester I hope to learn how to better my writing skills. I know how to construct an essay, but when it comes to making sure all of my grammar is correct or choosing a topic, I tend to have trouble.

As a student who has now been in college for a semester, I think that writing exemplifies how well you do in college. Others may argue that writing does not play a big role in determining if one does well in college or not. As I stand by my opinion of writing playing a big role in how well someone does in college, there are many things you still have to do over your years in college.

In the two non-fiction articles “He Survived a Tornado” and “Killer Storms”, the authors had different purposes for their writing. Even though both articles were about tornadoes, the authors had separate purposes for which they wrote the articles. Each writing purpose in the articles influenced the focus of each text.

All throughout my public school education, the majority of my writing consisted of persuasive essays. While I have grown to become confident in my ability to produce this type of writing, when I started college, I felt lost writing research papers. The steps to writing a persuasive essay is so ingrained in my mind that it was hard to break out of that habit when my assignments required a different method. The only significant research paper that I wrote was during junior year of highschool. However, it was only a three and a half page assignment. I definitely felt my confidence waver when writing the research paper for this class. I feel like high school didn’t prepare me enough for the amount of writing that is expected at the college

A well-developed writer has a sound knowledge of key components such as, organisation, language the use of grammar and spelling. In order for young children to develop their skills in writing they need to have a variety of opportunities to see, hear, role play and have group discussions to develop their understanding.

Growing up, I thought of writing as discomforting and boring because sometimes a sentence would take too long to write and I would fear that my handwriting would be more terrible than others. However, as the years passed by and I progressed, I started to grow a settling interest for 3rd person writing. Thanks to my love for reading stories, I wanted to create my own set of stories and use my imagination to put it down in words. Although there was more to this in the real world than writing stories, this is what gained my interest in writing and the one thing that made me feel comfortable while writing.

Writing has become a part of everyday life for many. Not only do some find pleasure in writing, but many find pleasure in reading narratives as well. However, to read a great narrative, one must write a great narrative first. Today, people believe that writing stories is an easy task, yet many do not even know what a good narrative is composed of. A narrative is a story that has action and details to build the storyline, conflict and resolution, and includes dialogue between characters. As children and adults learn to write and develop their skills, the importance of knowing how to write a narrative is crucial. A narrative is defined as a written account of connected events, like a story. Writing a good narrative must poses distinguishing characteristics to grasp the attention of the audience.

Writing is an extremely important aspect of which is lost in our lives. In every American school, English teachers taught students how to write and connect the words together to form a sentence. As time goes by, writing is becoming complicated and begins to require foundational skills: grammar, organization, and other complex editing. Although the focus on grammar is important, it can’t deprive students of imagination and creativity. I like writing things that come from inside of my mind and don't want to be confined by the grammar rules. The problem with less freewriting is the texts were written without emotions and communication. Cars cannot drive without gasoline, gasoline is the main source of power; the writer’s main source of power is a voice. Therefore, the teacher can only teach the basics; the real writing is looking for your voice.

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.

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.

From birth to death, as humans, we learn, re-learn, and are taught again how to engage in specific, everyday life functions. Every individual has their own style, this goes for writing, drawing, singing, dancing, the list goes on and on. All throughout our lives, we as students have been taught how to write and what style of writing is ‘acceptable’. This essay will challenge what was taught about writing in high school. It may end up make writing more interesting. Who knows, a newly found passion for choreographed dancing may emerge after reading this essay. This is only a possibility due to the innumerable number of topics that an essay could be about, as the writer can write about anything and everything that they choose.