The Basic Elements of Writing: A New Perspect...

The Basic Elements of Writing: A New Perspective

Author Name : Dr. S. Santosh Smitha

ABSTRACT Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language. Writing is not a language but a form of technology that developed as tools developed with human society. Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols. The result of writing is generally called text, and the receipt of text is called a reader. Motivations for writing include publication, storytelling, correspondence and diary. Writing has been instrumental in keeping history, maintaining culture, dissemination of knowledge through the media and the foundation of legal systems. It is also an important medium of expressing oneself by way of written words as do authors, poets and the like.