What is Writing?

 

Here are some definition of writing described below: 

What is Writing? Widdowson states that writing is the act of making up correct sentences and transmitting them through the visual medium as mark on paper.[1] 

What is Writing? Hornby states that writing is in the sense of the verb ‘write’. Write is to make letters or other symbols (ideographs) on a surface, especially with a pen or a pencil on a paper.[2] 

What is Writing? Pincas states that writing is a way of communicating a message to a reader for a purpose. The purposes ofwriting are to express one’s self, to provide information for one’s reader, to persuade one’s reader, and to create a literary work.[3] 

What is Writing? Barli Bram defines that writing is producing or reproducing written message. It is an active process to organize and formulate the ideas on the paper. Therefore, before we write we need to determine what to writes should have something meaningful to convey.[4]

What is Writing? The term of ability is defined as skill or power. Concisely, writing ability is the skill to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings to other people in written symbols to make other people or readers understand the ideas conveyed.[5]

What is Writing? Writing is a process organizing the idea, opinions, and feelings into written form. It is a complex activity with the control language both of the sentences level (grammatical, structure, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling, and later information) and beyond the sentence rank (organizing and integrating information into cohesive and coherent paragraph or text). What we want write should have something meaning to convey. 

 See also:

1. What is Writing According to Experts? (Update 1)

2. What is Writing According to Experts? (Update 2)

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[1]Henry Widdowson. Definition of Writing Ability http://teachingenglishonline.net (Accessed on December 14^th 2012)

[2]Hornby.Definition of Writing According to Expert http://www.globalshiksha.com (accessed on December 14^st 2011)

[3]Pincas, Teaching English Writing : Essential Language teaching Series (London: The Macmilan Publisher ,Ltd,1998)p.56   

[4]Barly,Bram. Write Well: Improving Writing Skills.(Yogyakarta: Kanisius, 1995), p.23

[5] Morris, Rupperd, smith Hurried. Bussiness writing (Orienbussisness book, Great Britain Class, Ltd 1999), p. 22