Importance Of Writing In Writing

UNIT -1: SELF AS WRITER

Being an International student and coming from a country where English is not the primary language, writing has always been challenging me. I have not written much in my life other than for school or college purpose. Whenever I was given a task to write and present something, it used to be very challenging for me. According to me, Writing does not have particular form or shape. It can differ by situation, tone, emotion, need, and goal. Writing is a daily thing for most of the people. These days every person is doing writing online like Facebook, twitter, instagram. Writing on social media is easy and is available for many audiences to read it instantly. Writing does not only mean novels or fiction. It can also be writing E-mails, texts,

While writing a report, providing information is the main key whereas for novels or stories, the emotion and tone is important. Writing can be formal or informal. It is based on the group of people who are going to read it. When writing E-mails to professors or letters to the dean, we try to be as formal as possible whereas when we write texts or E-mails to friends we often tend to be informal. It all depends on whom we are writing to.

Writing has several forms and it is based on the context or situation. Every person deals a specific situation in a different way. In writing, code switching plays an important role. We often tend to code switch our writing based on the situation. While writing texts, we try to be very informal and free. Whereas, while dealing with e-mails to professors we code switch and tend to be formal. This happens in day-to-day life situations. It can be successful or failure based on the situation. When it comes to me, I am different kind of writer based on the situation and to whom it is written. I tend to very formal when I deal with higher official. I am informal with texts and emails to friends and colleagues. I am informative