Why Writing Is Important Essay

People may think note taking is tedious, but is it beneficial in the long run? In my English 101 class, the first step of order was taking notes. It was not just notes on work, but on an activity, which aimed to help all the students along with myself to learn more about each other. I learned three things, which made me a better writer. Those were that taking notes in class helps me with spelling, the urge to find out more information, and helped with my memory. In taking notes in class, I learned that spelling is important and it by writing things down, it makes it easier to spell. Spelling is important in writing because if I misspelled a word, the person reading might have a hard time deciphering what I am writing about. In class, there was one guy, Jerry Jelorm Atsiqu, and he was from Ghana. However, one student in my class was asked to spell Ghana
because she thought she knew how too. The way she spelled Ghana was “Gona,” which is absolutely wrong. I knew how to spell “Ghana,” so I was not troubled. But, it opened up my mind that mediocre mistakes of such can happen to anyone, even myself. If it was I, writing an essay and spelled “Ghana” as “Gona.” It would be wrong and I could possibly lose points for that. This mistake makes me question every new word I hear now, if I do not know how to spell it, I will ask how that person spells it. This will make my writing better because I will not have misspelled words in my papers that I write, which is excellent because sometimes spell check on the computer is not always right all the time. It makes mistakes sometimes and if I can spot the mistake before spell check can, then I know my writing will be better. When I take notes, it becomes easily accessible and will not be forgotten easily, which will be beneficial to my writing.
I tend to forget things, which are not important to them. However, those irrelevant things, which do not seem important to me, might be important when writing a paper on a certain topic. If I did not take notes in class, I would not know that Khawar Malik in my English class is an undecided student leaning toward majoring in Pharmacy. He is a commuter who likes Football and his favorite team is the New York Giants. He also speaks Urdu and Spanish. This information would easily slip my mind if I did not write it down. There were eighteen names, which I wrote down and each one was different. Each one had different things, which they were interested in and different languages they spoke. Now that I am writing an essay on how taking notes advances my writing, I come to the realization that notes help me to remember information easily. All I have to do is turn the page in which the notes were taken and look for information, which I need. This makes it easier for me to have details in my
writing. Throughout writing essays in my life, every new teacher that I meet, wants ideas to be detailed. By taking notes in the first class of English 101, I gathered a ton of information. I was able to write about two people already, which I did not know anything about before taking notes and I would probably forget about them if it were not for the notes. Another person in my class, David Morfe, is half Dominican and half African American. He plays basketball, video games, and he is a freshman. He speaks Spanish and has a dog whose name is Korra. He has two older sisters and one younger brother. He also lives in Bergen County, New Milford. I know so much about David that I could write an essay about him. However, I realized that if I asked a couple more questions I would find out more details about the details he gave the class. For example, I could ask him what his favorite video game is or what are the names of his siblings. Questions of such would make me gain more information on David. This connects back to my writing, where now I question the things I am saying and looking to see if I can explain it further. This way, the person reading it can understand what I am trying to say better. So, the urge to find out more information makes me connect it back to my writing where I look to make everything detailed as I can. The note taking exercise, which was implemented in English 101 on the first day was a helpful exercise to better my writing. I learned different ways to improve my writing. One was to always check my spelling because words can mean something completely different when spelt incorrectly. Another was that taking notes makes information easier to access and to remember because it is in my possession. I learned to gather more information and to look deeper into things because there can be so much more a person can learn. In the end, I came to the conclusion that taking notes in class is beneficial to the note taker, although it might be uninteresting.