CCT109H5 Chapter ROBIN: Reading Notes-Robinson (pg 27-33)

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Writing is the greatest invention in the world; it has also made history possible. Yet it is a skill most writers take for granted. Writing and literacy are generally seen as forces for good. It hardly need saying that a person who can read and write has greater opportunities fulfillment than one who is illiterate. Anyone who was anyone among ancient rulers required a personal seal for signing clay tablets and other inscriptions. Such name-tagging has been found as far apart as mesopotamia, china, and. Seals have been found scattered around the houses and streets of the. They would have been worn on a cord or thong and used as a personal signature . The first written symbols are generally thought to have been pictograms, pictorial representations of concrete objects. Some scholars believe that writing was a result of a conscious search by an unknown sumerian individual in the city of uric in about 3300 bc.