Throughout history, writing has been a classification for civilizations. Writing is what was used to separate civilized people from their barbaric counterparts. Writing is an extension of the brain and has allowed for inventions that have shaped today’s world. In today’s world, however, writing is seen as a chore by most people. This may be caused by the fact that schools make writing boring and difficult because they don’t let the students choose their own topic to write about. In early stages of education, a topic given to a class for them to write an essay about is likely intended to make things simpler to teach the fundamentals of writing an essay. In later stages of education such as high school, it appalls me how teachers bar their students learning by not letting the students choose their topic to write about. This causes many students to dislike writing because they can’t write about topics that they want to. I am a victim of this. Throughout my public school career, I was rarely given an opportunity to write about something I wanted to. For this reason, I disliked writing for most of my academic career. In the few instances where I was allowed to write about my personally chosen topic, I have thrived. I passionately researched the topics using countless sources and strove to make the paper as good as possible. I found that I thoroughly enjoy writing when I am interested in the topic and find it to be a chore when I could care less about the topic. I think that the most literate person that I know is my maternal grandfather. My grandfather reads constantly and his knowledge of the world is seemingly endless. Like a normal grandparent, my grandfather’s texts to me are more of an essay about his entire week rather than a regular text. Reading through his long winded texts, I find that he is masterful with his word choice. As I start to read his texts I am immediately drawn in because of how interesting his word choice makes his text seem. My grandfather doesn’t have the best memory but makes it seem like he remembers everything he reads. He has taught me that you don’t have to have an incredible memory to absorb mass quantities of information. I think that in today’s world, writing is very important socially because of texting. Texting has become one of the most widespread forms of communication. Texting is important socially because of how it ties people to one another. Being example, I have observed relationships begin through texting. One’s writing in text can make or break their chances of having a partner. Since the beginning of civilization, writing has been the core of a functioning society. However, I predict that writing will become less important in the near future because of the increasing opportunity for videos and pictures to be seen. I don’t think that writing will disappear because of a opposition to art and writing like many others do. I very rarely use a pencil or pen to write now.
Like most people today, use a laptop, desktop computer, and a smartphone to write. I prefer writing through these tech devices because I am able to type faster than I am able to write with a pen or pencil. Thus far in my academic career, I truly believe that the most important class that I have taken is the computers class I took for one semester when I was in the 6th grade. In this computers class, I learned how to type home row. I find that being able to type fast and efficiently to be the most important skill that I have learned in school. I know that I will use in the future. When I tell older people that I never learned how to write in cursive they are dumbfounded.
Cursive is taught to make people be able to write faster and more efficiently. Personally, I could care less about not knowing how to write in cursive because I know that I will rarely be writing in the future. Home row typing is the modern day cursive because both are intended to make writing quicker. Writing is a staple in society as it connects ideas and cultures together especially through the internet. Meaningful writing is a very important skill for one to possess in today’s world. My personal relationship to writing is a good one as long as the topic for my writing is one that I feel as important, interesting, and relevant to me.
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