By the time we get into our fourth year of high school, we basically know what we want to do with our lives, right? Eh.
However, this is usually the time where we need to apply for universities and think about our futures, so our lives become all about school. Social life? I don’t know her!
I know that different programs require different prerequisite courses, but it seems like every program requires you to have ENG4U. Some may think that it is unnecessary since most of us can already speak and write english, and when are you ever going to have to understand Shakespeare?
However, I personally think that ENG4U should be a prerequisite because the course teaches us how to write maturely and how to convey our ideas in effective ways. These skills are important in the future since in university there are many written assignments and even essay courses! And if your future job requires you to submit any written reports, you know exactly how to organize and format your ideas! The course also builds our confidence with public speaking because of the presentations. This will help us in the future because, both at school and at work, there will be times where you need to create a presentation conveying an idea.
In the society that we live in today, the importance of writing skills lives in the shadows of the end products. For example, how do you think that commercial was made? By writing a script. How did people renovate that school? By writing a proposal. Everything that you see today requires a written component in the process, so to have ENG4U be required is the school’s way to prepare us for our futures.
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Works Cited
“Canadian Secondary School.” Canadian Secondary School – Canadian Secondary School Admissions – Welcome to Western – Western University, welcome.uwo.ca/admissions/admission_requirements/canadian_secondary_school/index.html.Conrad, Jordan. “Do Writing Skills Benefit Your Career?” Office of Career Services | School of Public Health | Indiana University, 6 June 2018, careers.publichealth.iu.edu/blog/2018/06/06/do-writing-skills-benefit-your-career/.
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