WRI203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Writing Implement, Interjection, Preposition And Postposition
12 May 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Speech is picked up automatically and naturalistically; language acquisition is a programmed species specific phenomenon. Human language is genetically programmed and its acquisition is an inevitable as all other developmentally programmed behaviours. Writing is learned as a result of direct formal instruction. Although related to language, writing is a cultural artifact, the creation of a people in a time and place. Writing is a social construct and like all other behaviours, it must be learned from others in direct contexts. Writing if oft-times, thought of as an oral language in print. It"s unlike speech: it"s usually time-delayed, meaning it requires reflection before recording, thinking before printing and it"s viewed as more painful than speech, less natural and slower. Writing requires the mastery of a whole set of arbitrary print conventions, like paragraphing, quotations, punctuation and macro-organization conventions. Students recognize these conventions as an endless source of error generation and can contribute to personal discomfort with the writing experience.
