Writing is a subject that is essential in school, as almost every school internationally has writing as a main subject. You may hate writing with all your soul or you may really enjoy the subject. However, even outside of school writing should also be practiced. Teachers and adults value writing so much because it has so much more use than you think and will benefit you more than any other subject. Daily lives, job opportunities, your mindset, your imagination and all your studies are just a few things that can be affected by practicing writing without you even knowing. One thing is for sure-practicing your writing will surely change your life.
In education, the main purpose of writing is to prepare you for future jobs and to have prepared writing skills for when you need them. Even if writing isn't your most favourite thing in the world, it's still crucial to have those skills. Writing is one of the most ancient school subjects and the written word is one of the most developed subjects, educating generations and passing on vital knowledge. In places such as Ancient Egypt, those who knew how to write were valued because of their knowledge and often lived good lives. Facts like those still ring true to this day. If you need to seem intelligent for a job interview, or in an email to your boss, good writing skills can showcase that you know what you are doing and you can use it to your advantage to seem like a good person. Things like this can even decide whether you keep that job or not. There are also hundreds of jobs that require excellent writing skills. To start with, being an author would be a very beneficial, well-paid job and if you like writing then it would simply be a hobby-however, you would need to outshine all the other authors and have books everyone would want to have, and that requires good writing. But it doesn't just stop at being an author-magazine writers, script writers, scientists, journalists and almost every job out there requires writing skills of some sort. Every job that you have, if you look close enough, will eventually involve writing. Practicing your writing outside of school therefore helps further improve your skills and get ahead of others, and even help you greatly in getting your ideal job. So the next time you have to write something, don't complain-writing will always help you in some shape or form.
However, practicing your writing doesn't help you in just getting jobs and your future life-even your school life can be improved. Of course, your growth and grades in writing subjects are enhanced. But did you know that many other subjects can be improved when you practice your writing? When you write a lot and familiarise yourself with words a lot more, your spelling subconsciously improves. Writing good science reports are essential for getting good science grades, as you'll need to categorise your data properly and write good conclusions. Food studies, drama, and physical education are all subjects that may seem like they don't require writing but often you may get essays about those tasks (such as writing about a dish you made, a performance you did, or about the history of a certain sport). Humanities is also a subject that heavily relies on good writing, because taking notes and writing essays about things such as historical events takes place all the time in that subject. Language studies also rely on you to be very familiar with your own language and understand it fully in order to compare it with another language-writing in either language (e.g. your own, or the one you're learning) will improve your understanding of it. Ancient civilisations understood how important it was and students often only had writing and maths as their only subjects, which sometimes was more than enough. Practicing your writing doesn't only improve just your writing grades and future life, you'll see it affecting so many other things in your daily life.
And when you practice your writing regularly and express yourself in your writing more and more, you'll inevitably find yourself enjoying writing. You don't even have to be the best writer or instantly write best-selling pieces of writing every time you sit down, if you're enjoying yourself you'll be more motivated to practice and improve and that passion will genuinely show in your writing. Someone who can't be bothered to check their writing or change the way they write will clearly show it without knowing to the readers. Writing also gives you a sense of freedom and this is how people can express themselves-they have the power. They can choose what to write about, what universe, symbolism or style of writing they want to use. They can write about what makes them happy. Even writing terrible pieces can benefit you. From then on, you know what not to do and you can look back on it and see how far you've come and how much you've changed. Your imagination can also be improved, as the more you write, the more you can envision what you are trying to describe. If you really enjoy writing, you can easily describe your surroundings when you are writing something and submerge yourself into the world you have created with no problem. This is important for good writing as well, especially creative. Many passionate writers are celebrated because of their dedication to writing and their talent even if they existed centuries, or even millennia ago. Words are so powerful that you don't even need the presence of the author to make them count. They live on forever. And if you practice enough and use your passion for writing to your advantage, what you write can affect people for the rest of time.
As you can see, writing is extremely beneficial in so many ways and practicing it helps you more than you think. You can improve your studies, and even your future if you practice writing and at the same time you can even enjoy it and make a hobby out of it. You can always do this by starting a blog where you post, share writing with people you know, write on social media, in an exercise book, with a friend, or on a website where people can write together. There are so many options, with so many benefits and you can start at any time, even right this second. The possibilities are endless, but there is only one question. What use will writing have for you?
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