Writing

Outline

Origin Definition

Purpose Types of writing

Obstacles Writing phobia

Types Causes
 Origin Of Writing Systems

Mythological Origins

Among many ancient societies, writing held an extremely special and important role. Often
writing is so revered that myths and deities were drawn up to explain its divine origin.

In ancient Egypt, for example, the invention of writing is attributed to the god Thoth (Dhwty in
Egyptian),

In Mesopotamia, among the Sumerians the god Enlil was the creator of writing. Later during Assyrian,
and Babylonian periods, the god Nabu was credited as the inventor of writing and scribe of the gods.
And similar to Thoth, Mesopotamian scribal gods also exhibit the power of creation via divine speech.

Whether as a medium to communicate with the gods, or as a magical or supernatural power, writing
cleared possesed a divine nature in these ancient cultures. Hence, writing became not only a way to
extend memory but also a tool for the elite to justify their rule upon the common, illiterate people.
 Evolution Of Writing

Jumping ahead in time to the 19th century, we come to a time when social sciences went. Overzealous and Eurocentric
scholars held that writing was invented ,and all subsequent writing systems were offshoot of this original. Worse is the fact
that they started to abuse Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. They separate writing systems into functional types, which
is still valid and scientific. However, they assigned "evolved-ness" to each group, with alphabet being the most evolved,
and inherently the best system. Logographic systems like Chinese are considered primitive, archaic, and much inferior,
and syllabic systems fall somewhere in between. Their rationale is that alphabets have a small number of signs (easy on
your memory) and allow the writer to specify every phonetic value in the language down to the most minute detail.

The biggest problem with the monogenesis of

writing system and its subsequence diffusion is
obviously that of culturally tinted views.
This theory started to break down when the evidence for the
indigenous origin of Chinese became very strong with the
discovery of the oracle bones and the lack of any earlier text in
the vast space between the Iranian plateau and the Yellow River.
 Definition

Writing is the process of composing a message in the form of text.

The work that is expressed in words is known as writing.

Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of

signs and symbols as well.

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems defines a writing system as "a set of
visible or tactile signs used to represent units of language in a systematic way".
 Modern Views
Furthermore, the concept of "evolved-
Nowadays there is more-or-less
ness" prevalent in the monogenesis
consensus on a few points theory is refuted in the modern view.
concerning the origin of writing. No type of writing system is superior
First of all, writing was invented or inferior to another, as the type is
independently in at least three often dependent on the language they
places, Mesopotamia, China, and represent. For example, the syllabary
Mesoamerica. Recent discoveries works perfectly fine in Japanese
might also provide evidence that because it can reproduce all Japanese
writing was invented in Egypt and words, but it wouldn't work with
English because the English language
Indus independently of
has a lot of consonant clusters that a
Mesopotamia. syllabary will have trouble to spell out
 Purpose

A purpose is the aim or goal of the writer or the written product; a strategy is a means of
achieving that purpose. For example, one’s purpose may be to explain something, but he may
use definitions, examples, descriptions, and analysis in order to make his explanation clearer.

The first question for any writer should be, "Why am I writing?" "What is my goal or my purpose for
writing?" For many writing contexts, one’s immediate purpose may be to complete an assignment or get a
good grade. But the long-range purpose of writing is to communicate to a particular audience. In order to
communicate successfully to your audience, understanding your purpose for writing will make you a better
writer.

Purpose is the reason why one is writing

Focusing on one’s purpose as one begins writing helps one know what form to choose, how to
focus and organize his writing, what kinds of evidence to cite, how formal or informal his style
should be, and how much he should write.
 Types Of Writing Systems
Writing systems can be
conveniently classified into
broad "types" depending on
Logograp
the way they represent their
underlying languages. hic

Logophon
Syllabic
etic
 Types Of Writing
Systems
Logographic Logophonetic Syllabic
A system of this kind uses a This is somewhat like a in a syllabic writing system, the
tremendous number of signs, stripped down versions of overwhelming number of signs
each to represent a logographic systems. In is used solely for their phonetic
morpheme. A morpheme is essence, there are two major values. These phonetic signs
the minimal unit in a language types of signs, ones denoting are Syllabograms, meaning that
that carries some meaning. morphemes and ones they represent syllables rather
So, a logogram, a sign in a denoting sounds. Most of the than individual sound. A few
logographic system, may logophonetic systems are non-phonetic are used for
represent a word, or part of a logosyllabic, meaning that numbers, punctuation, and
word (like a suffix to denote a their phonetic signs mostly commonly used words. Like Old
plural noun). like Chinese denote syllables. like Japanese Persian
 Types Of Writing Systems

Consonantal Nearly all the sounds

alphabets are also in a language can be
known as abjads, and represented by an
are all descendents of appropriate
the Proto-Sinaitic consonant and
script. In a "pure" vowel alphabet.
Consonantal consonantal alphabet, C&V Alphabetic However, just take a
vowels are not look at English
written. However, spelling and you can
nearly consonantal almost feel we're
alphabets use certain back to logographic
conventions like systems like Greek
Arabic etc ,Latin etc
 Writing Phobia
Types of Social
A phobia is a strong, persistent fear of
situations, objects, activities, or persons.
The main symptom of this disorder is the
excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the

Phobias: phobias
feared subject. Phobias are believed to be
developed by heredity; genetics and brain-
chemistry combine with life-experiences.

Specific Agorapho Writing

phobias bia Phobia

There are two

types of writing
Scriptoph Graphoph
phobia: obia obia
 Symptoms & Causes
Symptoms The symptoms are extreme sweating, excessive sweating,
As with anxiety, dread and nausea, dry mouth, nausea,
any phobia, the symptoms anything associated with inability to articulate words or
vary by person depending panic such as shortness of sentences, dry mouth and
on their level of fear. breath, rapid breathing, shaking. .

Causes
One may think it’s boring One may think that his
There are
and he is not interested literacy level is
many reasons that people
are afraid of writing:
in it insufficient for writing

One may don’t know

One may think his
how to convert ideas in
vocabulary is weak
to words
 Symptoms & Causes

Causes One may have lack of expression of thoughts

One may think it makes him afraid for fear of

One may think it’s wastage of time giving energy to negativity and he don’t want
these things to expand and grow
 Solution

Solution:
In order to combat fear one should
take a positive approach and be
mentally ready and in control at all
times.

One way to control a phobia is to ignore it,

which is easier said then done. However, if
one think or talk about it, then he will create
more fear and anxiety, which might make the
phobia worse.

One should try researching more information

about his phobia. It is said that knowledge is
power and it might help one in the long run.
However, do not dwell on the phobia or is might
make it worse.