Sunday 27 September 2009

“Writing is the means through which speech can be transmitted and preserved.”

Although writing is an artificial creation, this one is vital in order to keep any useful oral speech to construct meanings for the human being.
For long time ago, writing has been considered one of the most important human skills because it has helped us to interiorize all kinds of information in order to improve our lifestyle. As Walter J. Ong says to us, in his book “Orality and Literacy”, “Like other artificial creations and indeed more than any other, it is utterly invaluable and indeed essential for the realization of fuller, interior, human potential.” Unlike other machines, writing makes us evolve, but with the difference that this one turns us into conscious people, since we can use this artificial tool to produce coherent and logical ideas in order to express ourselves and to get the cleanest knowledge. Being writing skill an instrument, it can used to make us expert writers through the practice, by developing our entire human potential.

Therefore, writing makes human beings more conscious and wiser about their own actions, their own processes. Furthermore, writing process helps us to transmit and preserve a natural tradition, that it is the oral speech.

1 comment:

  1. well done, hooray, just expectable
    Understandable, but any simple, well constructed but any rethorical
    It delighted me to read it.
    Simple editting mistake "used" after can(the line before ending the first paragraph.
    Reverentially
    franklin Alvarez

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