... distinctive uses to which you can put your writing: to communicate, to imagine, and to explore.WRITING TO COMMUNICATEIt is easiest to describe writing as communication because this is the use to which ... problem to solve), an outline can give you a clear direction, a goaltoward which to write. To make an outline, you list ideas according to their relative weight: some ideas are equal to others ... ITHE WRITERUSING LANGUAGE We use language all the time for many reasons. We use it to meet, greet,and persuade people ;to ask and answer questions ;to pose and solve prob-lems; to argue, explain,...