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I constantly need clarification. At work, instructions are sometimes vague or non-specific, and I have to send an email that describes what I am going to do in great detail, to make sure I have understood my task properly. 

My friend Jay is currently working on a fictional setting he plans to write novels in, and I'm the wall he bounces ideas off of. Sometimes, he words these ideas in a way that is not at all conducive to my understanding. And I have to rephrase them, and inquire "Do I have that understood correctly?" 

I think possibly one of the most important ways I write to learn is just that; rephrasing or further specifying a concept of instruction to make sure I have learned the information I need from it. 

This is likely the basis for educational papers, now that I consider it. Explaining something to someone else requires us to have understood it.