What is writing?

Writing, just as speaking is produced to infer some kind of meaning. In other words, the writen symbols must be arrange in such a way that it means something. The symbols can be arrange in words, sentences, paragraphs, horizontally, vertically, in lists and as long as it infers meaning it is consider writing. Nevertheless, there are ways to comunicate a message, in order for someone to get the right meaning. For this, we have to put our thoughts in paper and make sure that it is completely well written, since someone else is going to get our message, and is up to us if they get it correctly or not. But what do we write? As students we might do some note taking from time to time, but our academic writing is certainly the most recurrent activity of all. With essays, summaries, reflections, research projects, our academic writing takes place. Besides school writing we use it to send an e-mail to a friend, to chat on messenger, make the groceries list, and other spontenous writing. Where I want to go from here is to the reflection of why should we (as teachers) should teach writing, well the answer is simple, due to the different learning styles, some students will feel relieved if they have some visual aide to support their speech, and of course the class can rest from all the communicative learning while doing some writing, and for the teacher this writing will serve as some sort of evidence of student's learning progress.

But, of course, as in learning how to write in a mother tongue, it will take some time and sometimes it will not be the strongest skill of languages students.