Reading And Writing Importance

Why is reading and writing so important? Throughout our entire life’s we have been taught to read and write. Since the moment we were born and old enough to enroll into school parents and teachers have expressed to us why it’s so significant. Whether you’re in school, in search for a new job, or plainly just out in your social life. Having a good reading and writing skills can be very beneficial to all of those areas. In this day and age, one has to be well educated with those skills to do anything. The importance of literacy is so grand and such a big part of a person’s success. That’s why we’re always putting it into practice and always finding new ways to learn proper literacy. Learning to read or write are just one of those things where …show more content…
Growing up as a kid I was never really a big fan of English class. Mainly because I wasn’t very good with my words. As I kept moving up in the educational standpoint of life going from middle school to high school, and now on to college. The difficulty level of trying to read and write just kept getting more and more challenging for me to do, but with those challenges it brought me …show more content…
As a writer, I was always getting trapped in writer’s block losing all of my ability to focus. Unable to produce any type work on paper and be creative with my thoughts or ideas. I always felt once you were in it, it was really hard to get yourself back out of it. I felt stuck, helpless because my brain couldn’t process any words and put them onto paper. It was like staring off into blank space with no idea in the world of how or what got you there. I felt like that a lot through high school. We wrote essay after essay, short story after short story. I honestly found all of them to be troublesome, but the one that was most important to me and note the one that gave me the most difficulty while in school was my senior project essay. It took me a ton of effort to get all of the requirements needed to get an A plus type paper. I piled up hours on top of hours every day to finish this research assignment. As a class, we spent almost every day of the class period working on our research papers for three straight months. I remember for the last week I was constantly in and out of the library digging through every bookshelf in sight trying to find a good print source that I could use. All of my free time went from relaxing to scavenging for a computer in any class that I could. Instead of surfing the web at home like I usually would, I spent the entire day on