How I learned to write...

When I was younger, my teachers would assign writing assignments and I would do them. My first paper was when I was 10 years old in health class. Everyone had a fictional baby that had a disease. My baby's "disease" was death. Looking back, I guess it was a very odd assignment, but at the time, I just went with it. After that I had a writing assignment in almost all of my classes--English, history, science, even if it was just a science journal, all of my classes have been about writing. Even in college, everything is based on writing. I have to read text that is prepared for me by a professor, analyze it, and understand it. I have to take notes that I can later decrypt and understand. I believe writing is a huge part of learning.