WRITING ACTIVITIES

Aside the functions writing performs, there are various purposes why people write.

1.       To bring the past to the present. Through writing, we regain the experiences of those who had lived before us as they were handed down and documented. Late Myles Monroe stated that many untapped brains are lying in the graveyards because most of what they carried was not reduced to writing.

2.       Without writing, there would have been no school or formal education. Teachers write what they have read about the acts of other people and students take down notes, which may serve as reference materials later.

3.       Note taking (writing) serves the purpose of prompting recollection when memory fails.

4.       In addition to writing experiences for permanence, transfer and easy retrieval, we use writing to maintain links with friends, members of a family and other group who desire interaction.