Group 2 collaborative journal

Writing is a cognitive process that is learned from an early age. It's a combination of words and phrases that are strung together to form thoughts, opinions, and ideas. As young children, we begin to comprehend language by hearing it all around us. It then translates into an understanding of how to communicate and express emotions through a pencil or keyboard. Writing comes in numerous styles and forms and could be as simple as a Facebook status or as complex as a well thought out research paper. Whether it would be a handwritten letter or a text message to a friend, both are examples of personal ways to share feelings or experiences. Writing could also be a more formal and public form of expression in cases such as written novels or magazines. Each piece of writing is unique and special in its own way. Figuring out how writing works is crucial in understanding what writing does, the function it has in our lives, and why we should study it.

Writing is a way to inform people of information. It could be described as therapy to the author or reader by the way it could open someone’s mind to see another side of something. It helps someone organize his or her own thoughts and emotions. 

Writing has a major function in life today. It has had a major function in life 1,000,000 years ago, too. Writing is a way for people to communicate with others their personal thoughts along with ideas. It is a way to connect by sharing opinions and stories. This form of communication has the purpose of being very personal. A letter or note can give us insight on the author’s personality from the writing style and word use. Without writing, where would we all be today? We would not know anything about the pass because writing is the strongest, most powerful item we have to figuring out about history. It educates us about what was going on in those generations. Writing should never loss it meaning.  

We should study writing because it provides us with something that we cannot see or understand through just using our words.  With writing we have the opportunity to really understand what is being said and we also can see things through another person's eyes.  Writing has the ability to feel what someone else is feeling and see what they are seeing.  Writing is how we as a people have advanced in this world up to this point.  We can build off of prior knowledge from the peoples before us and apply that to our future for the better.  An example of this would be the tragic events of the Holocaust.  It is a horrible portion of human history but in order to ensure that we never have to come face to face with a situation like that again, we keep a hold of autobiographies of victims of this tragic event.  All in all, we should study writing so that we can be better from it and secure a safer and peaceful future.