Will you agree with me when I say, “We learn a lot when we write?” Most people know (know – to differentiate from believe and think) that people learn a lot when they read. For me, people do learn a lot more when writing than when reading.
You could argue with me; why not? Learning is getting information. Reading is getting information through optical signals to the brain; while writing is probably the exact opposite as it is transmitting information from your brain through the muscular veins of your hand.
But what some people overlook is that learning is a process. It does not stop at getting information. Learning is the process of accumulating knowledge in an unending cycle of getting information, synthesising them through comprehension, retaining and reinforcing them through application and use which may be repetitive or not and desiring to get more information. And so the cycle repeats again and again.
When people write, they apply and use the information they have gathered and so thus reinforcing the learning process. They also discover or realise they need to know more; they research. While doing the research, they also gather information not necessary to their writing task but are related to it and can be stored and developed into knowledge later. And so the desire or interest to get more information which is a phase in learning comes in. It consequently leads to getting more information and setting to motion the cycle of learning.
Learning more when writing can be observed in someone simply opening the dictionary (internet or printed press). Essay and other written assignments in school or work are the best manifestations of learning, more when writing. When students, writers and other persons are assigned writing tasks, more often than not, they are going to research which is not limited to reading – which includes, listening, watching, feeling, tasting, smelling and some other forms of observing to get information.
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