Thinking back about this semester I remember one of the very first things we read in our Writing and Rhetoric was the author's story of his experience in college. He was given an assignment where they were given a dime. They had to write about that dime and explain everything about it so well that the reader could pick it out of group of dimes. What he learned is what I have learned this semester, "we write to communicate with others" (McInelly 2).
This is so important to remember even though it seems like such a simple concept. I think we often forget that we are trying to help our reader learn from what we are writing. We aren't just writing to get our ideas down on paper and hope someone else can understand them in the event that they read it. Everything we write, well at least most things we write should be written to help others learn and understand our ideas. Our job is to help them understand not just hope they can decipher what we were thinking.
I am actually learning to love writing, believe it or not.
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