writing

the act of creating written works

"writing was a form of therapy for him"

"it was a matter of disputed authorship" the work of a writer

anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect)

"the writing in her novels is excellent"

"that editorial was a fine piece of writing" (usually plural) the collected work of an author

"the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings" letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language

"he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"

"the doctor's writing was illegible" the activity of putting something in written form

"she did the thinking while he did the writing"

''Writing'' may refer to two activities: the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming Word (linguistics)words and other constructs that represent language or record information, and the creation of material to be conveyed through written language. (There are some exceptions; for example, the use of a typewriter to record language is generally called typing, rather than writing.) ''Writing'' refers to both activities equally, and both activities may often occur simultaneously.

Methods and tools for recording information -

Writing systems - Writing systems, i.e., methods of inscription, can be broadly divided into four categories: logographic, syllabic, alphabetic, and featural. Another category, ideographic (symbols for ideas), has never been developed sufficiently to represent language. A sixth, pictographic, is insufficient to represent language on its own, but often forms the core of logographies.

Logographies - A logogram is a written character which represents a word or morpheme. The vast array of logograms needed to write within language and the many years they require to learn, are the major disadvantage of the logographic systems over alphabetic systems. However, the efficiency of reading logographic writing once it is learned is a major advantage. No writing system is wholly logographic. All have phonetic components as well as logograms ("logosyllabic" components in the case of Chinese, cuneiform, and Mayan, where a glyph may stand for a morpheme, a syllable, or both; "logoconsonantal" in the case of hieroglyphs), and many have an ideographic component (Chinese "radicals", hieroglyphic "determiners".) For example, in Mayan, the glyph for "fin", pronounced ''ka’'', was used to represent the syllable ''ka'' whenever clarification was needed. However, such phonetic elements complement the logographic elements, rather than vice versa.The main logographic system in use today is Chinese, used with some modification for various languages of China, Japanese, and, to a lesser extent, Korean in South Korea. Another is the classical Yi script.

Syllabaries - A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables. A glyph in a syllabary typically represents a consonant followed by a vowel, or just a vowel alone, though in some scripts more complex syllables (such as consonant-vowel-consonant, or consonant-consonant-vowel) may have dedicated glyphs. Phonetically related syllables are not so indicated in the script. For instance, the syllable ''ka'' may look nothing like the syllable ''ki'', nor will syllables with the same vowels be similar. Syllabaries are best suited to languages with relatively simple syllable structure, such as Japanese. Other languages that use syllabic writing include the Linear B script for Mycenaean Greek; Cherokee; Ndjuka, an English-based creole of Surinam; and the Vai script of Liberia. Most logographic systems have a strong syllabic component.

Alphabets - see alsoHistory of the alphabet An alphabet is a small set of symbols, each of which roughly represents or historically represented a phoneme of the language. In a perfectly phonologyphonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling. As languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. In most of the alphabets of the Mid-East, only consonants are indicated, or vowels may be indicated with optional diacritics. Such systems are called ''abjads''. In other, vowels are indicated through diacritics or modification of the shape of the consonant. These are called ''abugidas''. Some abugidas, such as Ethiopic and Canadian Aboriginal SyllabicsCree, are learned by children as syllabaries, and are often called "syllabics". However, unlike true syllabaries, there is not an independent glyph for each syllable. Sometimes the term "alphabet" is restricted to systems with separate letters for consonants and vowels, such as the Latin alphabet.

Featural scripts - A featural script notates the building blocks of the phonemes that make up a language. For instance, all sounds pronounced with the lips ("labial" sounds) may have some element in common. In the Latin alphabet, this is accidentally the case with the letters ''b'' and ''p''; however, labial ''m'' is completely dissimilar, and the similar-looking ''q'' is not labial. In Korean Hangul, however, all four labial consonants are based on the same basic element. However, in practice, Korean is learned by children as an ordinary alphabet, and the featural elements tend to pass unnoticed. Another featural script is SignWriting, the most popular writing system for many sign languages, where the shapes and movements of the hands and face are represented iconically. Featural scripts are also common in fictional or invented systems, such as J. R. R. TolkienTolkien's ''Tengwar''.

Historical significance of writing systems - Historians draw a distinction between prehistory and history, with history defined by the advent of writing. The cave paintings and petroglyphs of prehistoric peoples can be considered precursors of writing, but are not considered writing because they did not represent language directly.Writing systems always develop and change based on the needs of the people who use them. Sometimes the shape, orientation and meaning of individual signs also changes over time. by tracing the development of a script it is possible to learn about the needs of the people who used the script as well as how it changed over time.

Tools - ''(see also !Reading_%28activity%29#Overvie wmethods of representing text)''

Stylus - A stylus is a narrow, elongated staff, similar to a modern ballpoint pen. Many styli are slightly curved to be held more easily. The ancient Romans used a thin metal stick, often made of lead, to scratch on wax-tablets. A quill was used to write on papyrus.

Pens - A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to some surface. Pens come in a variety of colors, the most common of which are: dark blue, black, red, and green. Types of pens include ballpoint pens, fountain pens and marker pens. Originally the word meant quill. A quill pen is made from a flight feather (preferably a primary) of a large bird, most often a goose. Quills were used as instruments for writing with ink before the pen came into use.

Pencils - A pencil is a handheld instrument used to write and draw, usually on paper. The writing is done with graphite, which is typically covered by a wooden sheath. The prototypical pencil may have been the ancient Roman stylus. Indeed, the word ''pencil'' comes from the Latin word penicillus which means "little tail".

Typewriter - A typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a document, usually a piece of paper. A typewriter has a keyboard, with keys for the characters in its font. The method by which the typewriter actually marks the paper varies, but until the end of the 20th century the impact of a metal type element against an "inked" ribbon caused ink to be deposited on the paper.

Word processor - A word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of viewable or printed material. They are descended from early text formatting tools. Word processing was one of the earliest applications for the personal computer in office productivity. Most word processors are powerful systems consisting of one or more programs which can produce any arbitrary combination of images, graphics and text.

Writing in Historical Cultures - mergeWriting_system#History of writing systems

Mesopotamia - The original Mesopotamian writing system was initially derived from a system of clay tokens used to represent commodities. By the end of the 4th millennium BC, this had evolved into a method of keeping accounts, using imprints of a nail (hence the term cuneiform), atfirst only for numbers, and finally a general purpose writing system, initially used to represent Sumerian languageSumerian. This writing system was originally a logogramlogographic writing system, but had begun to evolve phonetic elements by the 29th century BC. By the 26th century BC, this script had been adapted to another Mesopotamian language, Akkadian languageAkkadian, and from there to others such as Hurrian languageHurrian, and Hittite languageHittite. Scripts similar in appearence to this writing system include those for Ugaritic languageUgaritic and Old Persian languageOld Persian.

Egypt - The earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphhieroglyphic inscriptions are the Narmer Palette, dating to c.3200 BC, and several recent discoveries that may be slightly older, though the glyphs were based on a much older artistic tradition. The hieroglyphic script was logogramlogographic with phonetic adjuncts that included an effective !Egyptian_hieroglyph#Scriptalphabet. Writing was very important in maintaining the Egyptian empire, and literacy was concentrated among an educated elite of scribes. Only people from certain backgrounds were allowed to train to become scribes, in the service of temple, pharaonic, and military authorities. The hieroglyph system was always difficult to learn, but in later centuries was purposefully made even more so, as this preserved the scribes' status. The world's Middle Bronze Age alphabetsoldest known alphabet was developed in central Egypt around 2000 BC from a hieroglyphic prototype, and over the next 500 years spread to Palestine and eventually to the rest of the world.

Phoenician writing system and descendents - The Phoenician writing system was adapted from the Proto-Caananite script in around the 11th century BC, which in turn borrowed ideas from Egyptian hieroglyphics. This writing system was an abjad - that is, a writing system in which only consonants are represented. This script was adapted by the Greek alphabetGreeks, who adapted certain consonantal signs to represent their vowels. This alphabet in turn was adapted by various peoples to write their own language, resulting in the Etruscan alphabet, and its own descendents, such as the Latin alphabet and Runes. Other descendents from the Greek alphabet include the Cyrillic alphabet, used to write Russian languageRussian, among others. The Phoenician system was also adapted into the Aramaic script, from which the Hebrew script and also that of Arabic scriptArabic are descended.

China - In China historians have found out a lot about the early Chinese dynasties from the written documents left behind. From the Shang Dynasty most of this writing has survived on bones or bronze implements. Markings on turtle shells have been carbon-dated to around 1,500 BC. Historians have found that the type of media used had an effect on what the writing was documenting and how it was used.

Indus Valley - The Indus Valley CivilizationIndus Valley script is one of the most fascinating and mysterious aspects of ancient Indian culture as it has not yet been deciphered. Although we have many example of the Indus script, without true understanding of how the script works and what the inscriptions say, it is impossible to understand the importance of writing in the pre-Indo-European Harappan Civilization.

Elsewhere - Many other systems have been developed independently, e.g. the complex Mayan writing; Etruscan is still not deciphered despite a fairly large corpus of material (mainly Latin and Greek).

Creation of text or information -

Creativity - mainCreativity In order to write a creative essay or short story, there are several tools that you can employ:dialogue (conversation and your thoughts)sensory imagery (the five senses and your feelings)dialectconcrete details (as opposed to abstract ideas)literary devices (such as similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and understatement)

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Critiques - Writers will often search out others to evaluate or critique their work. This can give the writer a better product in the end. To this end, many writers join writing circles, often found at local libraries or bookstores. With the evolution of the internet, writing circles have started to go dragonfly-publishing.com - online.

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