Why do we need to write?

Why do we need to write?

In other words, what is writing for?

Can you guess the reasons for writing?

There's a lot of them, just answer with anything that comes to mind.

Well, here are some of the most common reasons:

• To express ourselves

• To inform others

• To persuade the readers

• Literary work

Let's go over the 4 most common reasons, one by one

Or would you like to guess what each of them are about?

Expressing ourselves

• Maybe all of us has done this type of writing.

• Do you use social media? Like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs, and so on?

• Then you've definitely written with the purpose of expressing yourself!

Why we express ourselves through writing:

• To share our opinions, ideas, etc.

• To form a connection with others.

• Basically, to show the world who we are.

• But, expressive writing can also be good for us.

Examples of expressive writing:

• Tweets, comments, blog posts, and so on.

• Diaries, journals, autobiographies.

• Songs, poems, even some works of fiction.

Before we move on to the next purpose...

Do you have any questions?

Would you like to read a sample of expressive writing?

Open Ended

Let's try expressing yourself through writing.

Write down a paragraph where you express yourself--your opinions, ideas, anything you want as long as it relates to you.

Informative writing

• If you've ever spent any time reading a textbook from school, that means you've already seen an example of informative writing.

• Because, as its name implies, informative writing is for informing people.

• That is, to tell or teach them about a certain topic--an object, an event, a phenomenon, and lots more.

What's informative writing for?

• We write in an informative manner when we wish to explain things to people.

• It could be about anything you can imagine, like explaining what the moon is, how gravity works, why you like videogames, and so much more.

• We when write informatively, we are trying our very best to make our readers understand our topic.

• But at its core, informative writing is purely about explaining, not persuading.

Examples of informative writing:

• Essays

• Research papers

• Presentations

Well, that's basically all about informative writing

Do you have any questions?

Would you like to see some samples of informative writing?

Open Ended

Now then, let's try to write an informative paragraph!

What is persuasive writing?

• It's a form of writing used when we wish to convince our readers to agree with us about a certain topic.

• Or at the very least, to make our readers question their own opinions and ideas.

Do you think you've read or heard any type of persuasive writing?

Because there's one type of persuasive writing that every one of you has either read, heard, or watched.

And that most common piece of persuasive writing is...

• Yup, it's advertisements!

• Why? Because an advertisement is basically someone or some company trying to persuade us to buy their products, or use their services.

• Advertisements are everywhere: In newspapers, magazines, social media, radio shows, televesion... I don't have enough space to list them all here.

So, what's persuasive writing for?

• To persuade people to agree with us.

• We can achieve this goal through countless means: the aforementioned advertisements, academic essays, speeches, presentations, the list just keeps going and going.

• Now, do you think you've ever tried to persuade someone to agree with you?

And that's all for persuasive writing.

Any questions?

Open Ended

Let's try to write one persuasive paragraph, shall we?

What's literary work?

• Do you like to read stories? Either short ones, or long ones like in novels?

• It's basically writing that's meant to entertain.

Literary work as entertainment:

• Think of all your favorite stories.

• They can be from movies, books, radio shows, anything.

• Those are all essentially literary works, since they were made to entertain their audience more than anything else.

• They can be self-expressive, informative, persuasive, but most of all, they're enjoyable to the audience.

Literary work as entertainment:

• But, nonfiction can be entertaining literary works as well.

• Think of documentaries, news pieces--articles and/or those found on tv--blog posts, so on and so forth.

• As long as you find any of these enjoyable, then they can be treated as entertainment.

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Basically, literary work is for...

• Entertaining the audience.

• We write literary works to elicit emotions from our readers.

• Happiness, anger, sadness, and all the other things we feel in our hearts.

• If any of these emotions were drawn out of us when we read, listen, or watch something, then the literary work has entertained us.

Open Ended

Now, do you want to try to write a paragraph for the entertainment of your readers?

Well, those are the main purposes of writing:

• Which one appeals to you the most?

• Or, can you come up with any other reason for writing?

• Remember, all purposes of writing are equally important and valid.

Before we go...

Do you have any questions?

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