Wagner - Express Yourself - Writing Skills for High School
Human beings communicate in four ways.We listen, speak, read, and write.When you were a baby the first
thing you did was listen to the world around you. You recognized voices; you were startled by noises; you
were soothed by music. Then you began to imitate the sounds you heard and you experimented by creating
your own sounds. You learned that crying brought attention, words identified things, and that linking words
together made meaning. Then you learned that symbols on a page held unique meaning, and you learned to
read. The last of the four ways you learned to communicate was through writing, and the very...