WHY IS WRITING IMPORTANT

• Writing is critical to becoming a good reader.

 • Writing is an essential job skill. 

• Writing is the primary basis upon which one’s work, learning, and intellect will be judged—in college, in the workplace and in the community.

 

• Writing equips us with communication and thinking skills.

 

• Writing expresses who we are as people. 

• Writing makes our thinking and learning visible and permanent.

 • Writing fosters our ability to explain and refine our ideas to others and ourselves.

 

• Writing preserves our ideas and memories.

 

• Writing allows us to understand our lives. 

• Writing allows us to entertain others.