Essay on “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; but writing an exact man” for Students.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; but writing an exact man

By helping its interpretation and expression, language plays an important role in spreading knowledge. The functions related to a language, like reading, speaking, and writing, have varying importance in the exercise. Whereas reading. as the least active of the functions, is useful only in acquiring knowledge, speaking and writing, with their additional facilities for expression and explanation, are more important in spreading it. Speaking calls for such qualities as command over language, skill for convincing the audience, and alertness, particularly in conversations, to support one’s viewpoints and arguments and to counter those of others. However, speech lacks some of the advantages of writing. In the speech, despite the best efforts, maintaining precision and coherence, particularly in long sentences, is virtually impossible. But in writing, since it has the nature of a record, allowing review and correction, and exactness of expression is possible. Writing, in order to be effective, should reflect the thoughts of its author precisely. It should not create any confusion in the minds of its readers. It is thus clear that, while reading enables us only to acquire knowledge, and speaking to express ourselves convincingly and readily, in writing, the virtues of knowledge, and its expression, are combined in the most efficient manner.

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