Elizabeth hill boone reading response

In this essay, Elizabeth talks about writing systems in pre Columbia America era in order to find out a broader definition of writing.
The first part, for which the topic is “Limited notions of writing”, points that almost all the scholars who have looked seriously at writing systems in their general sense have defined writing as spoken language that is recorded or referenced phonetically by visible marks. However, seems most of these scholars are linguists; it is easier for them to tie writing to speech. “Speech has evolved as the fullest and most efficient means of conveying thought. Only full spoken language enables us as human beings to express any and all thoughts” said Defrancis. Also, other scholars give different opinions in order to emphasize the limitation of certain writing systems. Some examples of limitation for some writing systems are given.
We can simply define writing as the ability to write or compose, however, scholars, who are still trying to find out an inclusive definition of writing, pull out several meanings and definition of writing. By analyzing the focus and concentration of different definitions, we can get to those similarities which are the main characteristic of the issue, but it is still hard to announce an inclusive summary.
In the last sub topic of this article, Elizabeth talks about some writing systems in Pre-Columbian America, for sure the most famous one is the writing system that had had been used in Maya civilization.
In conclusion, this essay is actually talking about those writing systems that beyond only-writing which means other method and media of writing, like graphic and visual literacy. Writing or in a boarder way we can say literacy, plays a vital role in recording information for histories of human evolution. Sometimes these simple ways of recording or expressing could even be better than normal writing way which is text. Like in our assignment 4, the purpose is to use another forms and Medias of writing to express the topic that we composed in one form.