Importance of Reading and Writing Skills1. Importance of Reading and Writing Skills
As we grow up, we learn more. The way we study, our course, our aims, objective to study,
everything changes. As a student moves from high school to college life, he or she realizes that
knowledge is more about practical application rather than the theoretical approach. Each activity
deals with everyday necessities. They learn to survive through the world out there, prepare
themselves for their career life and learn important skills that determine their potential. Reading
and creative writing are one of those skills. Some students make very smooth transitions from
writing in high school to writing in college but other students are puzzled and frustrated by their
experiences in writing for college classes. Only months earlier your writing was winning praise;
now your instructors are dissatisfied, saying that the writing isn’t quite “there” yet, saying that the
writing is “lacking something.”
The thing is that our century doesn’t ask for something good or accurate, it asks for something
different and new. It’s the age of innovation. Hence a person needs to do lifelong research by
reading regularly and write in a way that grabs attention. You won’t succeed merely by being
more intelligent or more skillful at doing what you did in high school. Instead, you’ll need to
direct your skills and your intelligence to a new task. It is not enough to understand course
material and summarize it on an exam. You will also be expected to seriously engage with new
ideas by reflecting on them, analyzing them, critiquing them, making connections, drawing
conclusions, or finding new ways of thinking about a given subject. Educationally, you are
moving into deeper waters. For this you need to read your text critically. You have blocked out
time for your reading assignments and set a purpose for reading. Now comes the challenge:
making sure you actually understand all the information you are expected to process.