Why Writing is Important

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Why Writing is Important

• Fall 2005

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Writing Influences the Ways We Think

• Some of the things that happen to us in life seem
  to have no meaning, but when you write them down,
  you find the meanings for them
• Maxine Hong Kingston

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Writing Contributes to the Ways We Learn

• The mere process of writing is one of the most
  powerful tools we have for clarifying our own
  thinking, I am never as clear about any matter
  as when I have just finished writing about it.
• James Van Allen

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Writing Fosters Personal Development

• In a very real sense, the writer writes in order
  to teach himself, to understand himself, to
  satisfy himself
• Alfred Kazin
• Writing has been for a long time my major tool
  for self-instruction and self-development.
• Toni Cade
  Bambara

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Writing Connects Us to Others

• Writing is the act of saying I, of imposing
  oneself upon other people, of saying listen to
  me, see it my way, change your mind.
• Joan Didion
• I think writing is a process of
  communicationIts the sense of being in contact
  with people who are part of a particular audience
  that really makes a difference to me in writing.
• Sherley Anne
  Williams

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Writing Promotes Success in College and at Work

• The aim of school is to produce citizens who are
  able to communicate with each other, to defend
  points of view, and to criticize...
• Albert Shanker

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Writing Promotes Success in College and at Work

• People think its sort of funny that I went to
  graduate school as a biologist and then became a
  writerWhat I learned in science is how to
  formulate or identify a new question that hasnt
  been asked before and then to set about solving
  it, to do original research to find the way to an
  answer. And thats what I do when I write a
  book.
• Barbara Kingsolver

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