Explain Why Writing Skills are Important for Students and Professionals
Back to: Academic and Professional Writing Unit 1
Explain why writing skills are important for students and professionals.
- Written communication is one of the exceptional characteristics of human beings.
- Over thousands of years, writing has become an important source of information, while societies benefited from written history, culture and knowledge.
- Writing is one of the essential skills as it is often a channel through which your learning, values, ideas and your contribution to the society can be obtained.
- It represents us even when we are absent in space and in time. Regardless of if you are a student or pursue an occupation, everyone has to write to communicate with others.
- It is a form of expressing yourself in the form of words.
- Writing is personal and not fleeting, it is a record of what you wished to communicate at a point of time.
- In order to write, you must organize your thoughts, explain your arguments, present your supporting evidence and make your reader understand your expression so as to receive feedback from your reader.
- Writing enables you to harness the transformative power of the written word to improve your life and to change the world around you.
- Skilled writing produces a response in the reader by simulating thought, evoking an emotion and stirring to action.
- Disorganized writing indicates that your thinking is disorganized.
- If your writing is not fully developed it indicates that you have not fully developed your thoughts. Therefore improving your writing skills will improve the way you think.
- School students write in non technical, informal language, whereas professional writing is more precise as it provides formal and detailed information with references from expert sources.
- Writing is often the first impression that others have of us therefore improving your writing skills allows you to confidently communicate with everyone and also helps you become a better communicator overall.
- Therefore, writing skill is important for students as well as for professionals.