Communication Skills Program 1. Writing for Intellectual Development .
Writing is an intellectual activity which stimulates the higher order functions of the human brain.
With language a reservoir of words, each evolved to stimulate some form of memory, communications in general, and writing in particular stimulates the neural network conjuring memory within the reader. There is evidence the act of writing short, daily compositions of several hundred words provides enhanced neural network development and thus increased capacity, and may even contribute to one s overall longevity. The simple act of writing composition requires the arrangement really the crafting of words in a manner calculated to evoke some form of response from the reader. Whether that response is a simple mental image or some manner of individual or group action depends on the reason the writer sought to compose. Writing as communications is an art in the truest sense of the word.