Writinghelpsusdiscoverwhatweknow.Writingaboutatopicstimulatessomeone’sthinkingonthattopicandhelpstoprobeknowledgeandexperienceswehavestoredinoursubconsciousminds.Writinghelpsustoorganizeourideasandputtheminexplicitform.Oftenwecanclarifyvagueorelusiveconceptsforourselvesbywritingaboutthem.Writinggeneratesnewideas.Theveryactofwritingstimulatesourmindstomakeconnections,seerelationshipsanddrawanalogiesthatwouldnothaveoccurredtousifwehadnotstartedtowrite.Writingmakesourthoughtsavailableforustolookatandevaluate;wecandistanceourselvesfromourideasandseethemmoreobjectivelywhenwewritethemdown.Writinghelpsustoabsorbandmasternewinformation;weunderstandmaterialbetterandretainitlongerwhenwewriteaboutit.Writinghelpsustosolveproblemsbyclarifyingtheirelementsandputtingthemintoavisualcontextwheretheycanbeexamined.Writingaboutatopicmakesusactivelearnersratherthanpassivereceiversofinformation.HYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing"\l"cite_note-2#cite_note-2"[2]WritingisamediumofHYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication"\o"Communication"communicationthatrepresentsHYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language"\o"Language"languagethroughtheinscriptionofsignsandsymbols.Inmostlanguages,writingisacomplementtospeechorspokenlanguage.Withinalanguagesystem,writingreliesonmanyofthesamestructuresasspeech,suchasHYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary"\o"Vocabulary"vocabulary,HYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar"\o"Grammar"grammarandHYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics"\o"Semantics"semantics,withtheaddeddependencyofasystemofsignsorsymbols,usuallyintheformofaformalHYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet"\o"Alphabet"alphabet.TheresultofwritingisgenerallycalledHYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile"\o"Textile"text,andtherecipientoftextiscalledareader.MotivationsforwritingincludeHYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication"\o"Publication"publication,HYPERLINK"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyte