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* Writing is the primary basis, upon which your work, your learning, and your intellect will be judged - in college, in the workplace, and in the community.
* Writing expresses who you are as a person.
* Writing is portable and permanent. It makes your thinking visible.
* Writing helps you move easily among facts, inferences, and opinions without getting confused - and without confusing your reader
* Writing promotes your ability to pose worthwhile questions.
* Writing fosters your ability to explain a complex position to readers and to yourself.
* Writing helps others give you feedback.
* Writing helps you refine your ideas when you give others feedback.
* Writing requires that you anticipate your readers' needs. Your ability to do so demonstrates your intellectual flexibility and maturity.
* Writing ideas down preserves them so that you can reflect upon them later.
* Writing out your ideas permits you to evaluate the adequacy of your argument.
* Writing stimulates you to extend a line of thought beyond your first impressions or gut responses.
* Writing helps you understand how truth is established in a given discipline.
* Writing equips you with the communication and thinking skills you need to participate effectively in democracy.
* Writing is an essential job skill.
Article from Brown University |
