SPEAK UP FOR WRITING

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f we consider writing as a human invent, we are considering it as a technology at the same time. As compared to oral speech, writing is an external tool to human being, therefore less natural to them. According to J.Ong, writing is essential for the realization of fuller, interior human potentials, given that writing as a technology, transforms the consciousness by affecting the word. As a matter of opinion I consider the dialogue as the most important characteristic developed trough writing -i.e- in writing, authors first have to recreate a context and an audience so they can discuss.

There is no doubt that thanks to writing many cultures around the world have made their history preserve. When Plato first wrote his “Dialogues” he hardly imagined that it would last for so long; nowadays his thoughts are the centre of a philosophy lecture thanks to writing. Nonetheless, writing it is not the only way to make the speech preserve. As a matter of example, there are many “no-westernized” cultures with such a rich oral tradition, in those contexts knowledge is preserved though speech, so, any kind of writing is no required.

Besides, Rather than weakens the thought, writing strengthens it. We have to take into account the mental process that has to be developed in order to try to "materialize" our thoughts. It is commonly accepted that in knowledge-contruction process it is necessary, therefore important, that the person drive his thoughts through any kind of writing so the knowledge built is significative. Besides, this statement does not consider that thanks to writing, history was born and evolved until present time so the memories as humans remains.

All the authors write for someone else. According to George Orwell, one of the motives for an author to write it is sheer egoism, it is the desire to be talked about, which can stimulate someone to write. From this perspective the written discourse is not separated from its author; this is because, in writing, the author establishes a dialogical connexion between his or hers words and the audience. Therefore the autonomous discourse it’s only autonomous in an objective and abstract level, nonetheless it is not in a subjective level which means that any discourse can be doubted in this later level.