(ThyBlackMan.com) Colleges and universities will assume their new freshman class will have certain skills, those would be reading, comprehension, mathematics and writing skills. If these skills are not up to par then students will be faced with academic challenges. This is why many HBCU’s have remedial classes that cover the diversity of weak or absent skills that either were not taught in high school or that students did not think they would need and did not apply themselves in high school, but now struggle in higher education.
The ability to write cannot be taken lightly, proper writing skill demonstrates the ability to understanding how to form words, words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into levels of comprehensive understanding to be mentally digested by the reader. In other words can someone read and understand the words that are coming from your mind to your hands?
The skill of putting words to paper or in a computer word processor has to be practiced and relevant if youth, teens and young adults are to write effective sentences. Guidance counselors should be advising their junior and senior students about the necessity for writing, to increase abilities to send in writing samples for internships and higher education applications. 
Juniors/Seniors need to know how to write to complete employment applications and ACT and SAT writing sections. There are changes in ACT and SAT requirements, but students still should take the writing portions of these tests.
Writing for some is a growing passion and a desire to create original content in diverse formats. The use of tech allows for using different types of technologies that involve different kinds of writing; Micro-blogging (Twitter), Storytelling, Poetry and the traditional blogging platforms. The action of writing/blogging is paramount in telling a story, sharing information and expressing ideas. Even when developing a rapping style writing down the rhythmic words help developa style, cadence and method to tell a story. When in business, a business plan must be written down for clarity in the direction of that business.
High school juniors and seniors should be practicing writing in English classes and at home that are preparing them for the future and their potential careers. “Content creation” as is called in the digital world; is important in any print media whether it is newspapers or the diversity of blogging.
When a youth/teen begins to write there are several elements that must be addressed; writing is the primary basis upon which they will work. Students’ intellect and intelligence (there is a difference between each) will be judged and scrutinized in high school, in college, and in the workplace. Proper writing skill is a growing tool and important to develop, students cannot
write like they talk.
I was not always a strong writer in high school and college, but I understood that I had to develop my abilities if I wanted people to take me seriously and consider the information that I share as valuable. Today as a national and international blogger and college professor it is important that I continue to improve my writing abilities because I’m a role model and mentor
for others that read my content and use me as a model.
Tips about Writing for High School Juniors and Seniors
* Writing expresses who you are as a person, it shares part of you with the world.
* Writing shares and encourages intellectualism, the more you write the more you learn
and you’re thinking changes.
* Writing allows your thinking to be visible to world.
* Writing encourages your ability to pose worthwhile questions and to improve your
academic standing.
* Writing nurtures your ability to embrace higher order and critical thinking skills.
* Writing encourages creative and innovative thinking.
* Writing helps you perfect your ideas when engaged in scholarly discussions and research.
* Writing demonstrates your intellectual flexibility and adaptability.
* Writing ideas down preserves them so that you can reflect upon them later and apply
to future learning and experiences.
* Writing stimulates your ability to extend your line of thought to new areas.
* Writing helps you understand the importance and value of truth and value in literacy.
* Writing helps build comprehension skills.
* Writing improves communication skills.
* Writing preserves a reality that may be transformative before its time.
* Writing is an essential employment skill that employers will look to.
* Writing is important in scholarly growth not just in higher education but in all disciplines.
The ability to write is a dynamic skill that is needed in all paces of careers, writing is a formal way of communication because even using technology you have to be able to write.
Staff Writer; William D. Jackson
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