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 work place 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.