Writing: A tool to Develop

Writing is a skill where it expresses a person’s ideas in a paper. Writing is also a way of communication between the writer and the reader. Written text is one of the most important thing to consider because it can be read multiple times even up to the next generations. It should be clear in writing to convey one’s purpose.

In a classroom setting, writing skill is one of the macro skills in language that needs to be develop. Writing activities helps the students develop their ideas and express their different views. But some of the students have the hard time to construct their sentences. They are conscious in their writing because they are afraid to be corrected in their spelling, grammar and even to the word usage. For those who are not native speaker of the language they sometimes use the literal translation to the word or what they want to address.

In writing, first write a draft and then review until the final output. The writer is encouraged to read a lot of reference so that he will know what to write. It should be clear to the readers; considering the form and the use of the language that gives emphasis to the text.

There are also lot of ways on how to develop writing skill. Free writing is one way to make students comfortable in writing. In this way, students will just write everything they want to write regardless of the language use and language usage. From time to time the teacher will pick topic and focus on the things that needs to improve like spelling. Aside from that, let the students also write another form of writing like making songs, writing poems, journal and others.

All the strategies and writing principles will help the student develop their writing skill and to come up with great text that can influence the world.

The application of writing in the classroom is beyond measure if one could write to express onself, inform others and influence his fellow men, the community and even the world.

Keep Writing!