When I finished reading Elizabeth Wardle’s, You Can Learn to Write in General, and Catherine Savini’s, Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment, it honestly made me feel not alone when it comes to the process of writing. In Elizabeth Wardle’s article she explains that writing isn’t something you can do on whim, it has to have a purpose and takes time to learn. There’s a line she writes that I relate to, “The same is true for any other kind of writing—we write in our journals and think of our future selves or anyone who might find the journal.” This is true for me, when I write in my journal not only is my purpose to write how I feel, but I think that I’m writing to someone who will read it. I want them to know and feel how I felt in that moment and get to know me. Writing has a certain level to it, they’re not all the same, each type of writing has a different purpose that has to reach certain types of readers. It’s important to teach writing because it’s all about demonstrating to others. Writing is about being able to express our ideas so that people can understand them. Writing is another form of language that we have to learn and with patience we can become more fluent in it. It’s not something that can be taught overnight and we can immediately be perfect in it. Catherine Savini’s article offers an approach to tackling academic writing and I think they’re really helpful. Savani advises writers to notice what their problem is with writing, analyze the key points of the problem, and then require a solution for it.
Why Learning About Writing is Important?
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