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Essay / Is Writing an Essential Skill for Engineers By James...
For me, as an engineer, I like to compare things to other things in my life, so using analogies would really interest me. The author used an analogy that I saw and I really liked that he included at least one in his article. Koelsch likened that learning to write is like learning to ice skate or learning to do karate. I thought it was a good way for me to see what he meant about learning to write only happening through the experience of writing. In the one occasion Koelsch used analogies he was very effective, I just think he could have used them more to try and convince the reader that writing and communication skills are important. For example, he might have said that the ability to write and communicate is as important to engineers as studying a playbook is to a football player. If a football player wants to succeed, he must study the playbook, because even if he is a very strong athlete, if he does not know the plays, he will not succeed; just like if an engineer is very strong in the technical area of engineering but very bad in the area of communication and writing, that person will not develop his