My Writing skills: present and future

In our current society, more and more people are sticking around a sedentary lifestyle; and thus, they are more likely to communicate with one another in the internet: Facebook, Instagram, and even blog posts. Then what elements are important to judge someone on this kind of communication? We can easily rule out conventional things that used to have sweeping effects on building a relation, such as physical appearance, voice, tone, gesture, and even subtle smell. Only one element comes to  distinguish from those elements, our words. Our word are all we have. People judge us based on the style of writing, word choice, and structural cohesiveness. 

What Korea has dismissed and is heretofore seemingly oblivious to is the importance of official writing education. It is such a shame, but I - of course, most people around my age - am barely aware of how to write a compelling, clear essay. Because we simply haven't had any chance to sharpen our writing skills. It means that we can't critique and edit our own and others' writing, reliably explain how our writing is structured and how words in a sentence interact. So, when I happen to read long comments on a certain article or blog posts, I sometimes furrow my brows in concentration and need to put extra efforts to grasp their intents.

Our words are the projection of ourselves in the physical absence. For example, if applicants use poor grammar and can't properly write their resume - extenuating circumstances would be applied to English language learners -   job recruiters will conclude that these are not qualified for a position. It would be frustrating if we have heard from a company we applied for that we were excluded due to some grammatical errors on our resume. 

This is why I decided to hone my writing skills - especially academic writing - gaining the benefit of free online courseware distributed by kind, knowledgeable instructors. As far as I am concerned, the US, where I am planning to pursue my career further and eventually settle down for a bit, puts much emphasis on the education of writing, so that American undergraduates are required to do several folds of writing assignments compared to Korean students. I can assume that, not to speak of my colloquial language, I would awfully have difficulty keeping a pace with well-trained counterparts in terms of written language. 

At present, I definitely lack writing skills; however, I won't let my weakness hold me back from achieving my goal set up for later in the US life.