The Reason of Writing

I've spent a lot of time thinking about the sole purpose of why we write. I've actually asked a couple different people, even strangers at work of why we write. I heard a lot of interesting different responses and I found it amusing that there was not a single clear reason of its purpose. Once I realized this I came to the conclusion that the reason why we write is different for every individual, thus being true for all of our students as well. As future educators I think it is our responsibility to keep an open mind for all the different possibilities of why our students write. True, most students will think that they absolutely despise writing, but I think part of our job (and part of the fun) is to draw out every single students purpose of writing and let them understand why it is important to them. I really don't believe that there is a right or wrong answer to why we write. I think the answers that we came up with in class are all very good reasons and if we were to ask this same question to our classrooms, we would probably come up with the same responses. Some responses may be underdeveloped, but if we were to enrich those particular answers we could amaze our students with the answers that already existed inside them.