Even though we don’t often realize it,
writing is a major part of our everyday lives. This baffles people because when
you think of writing, what comes to mind is school. We think of essays and
research papers for class, as well as note taking during lectures. While yes,
as students, we do take part in all of these forms of writing, we also write in
so many other ways without even thinking about it. Texting is the hot new form
of communication and it requires us to write to our friends back and forth all
day long. We don’t write many letters anymore, but we do sill write thank you
notes. We also make many lists including grocery lists, chore lists, homework
lists, etc. We also use email and Facebook to write to friends, as well as tweet
on Twitter.
School writing compared to our everyday writing is
like a chore. We tend to dislike writing formal essays whereas texting our
friends is fun. We don’t have to necessarily be grammatically correct and also
we can use shorthand. It’s much easier to abbreviate, and not have to worry
about proper sentence structure when trying to get our thoughts into writing. Writing
is a part of our lives that, no matter how technologically advanced the world
gets, will always stick with us.
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