What Makes Writing Worth Reading?

This is a tricky question! I think that writing is one of the most popular forms of expressing oneself. I know that when I write, I am usually writing to an audience. If it's a research paper, I'm writing for a professor, if it's s journal, I'm writing that for myself, or sometimes for others to read. I tend to express how I feel through writing. Sometimes it will be a letter or sometimes it will be a card.

The one example that comes to mind is when I receive a letter in the mail from a childhood friend. I read the card and read what they write. After I have done that, I will write back in return. I feel like in a lot of cases, you must read before you can write.

In a classroom setting, a lot of times children will journal daily. I think what they write is worth reading, because I think children really express how they feel through writing. Reading what someone writes allows you to connect to the individual in different ways.
I really enjoy reading what others have to write. I think that for a teacher, it is a fun thing they get to do.
If a child is writing about something they have just read (a book), what they write will help allow the teacher to judge if he/she understands what the student just read about.