Contexts of an Relations between Early Writing Systems: The CREWS Project (original) (raw)

Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems is an ERC-funded project based in the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. You can read more about the project on the CREWS blog at https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/

Tracing writing technologies through time: A historical reflection of writing systems, writing surfaces and writing implements

2014

Instructional technologies, just like any other technology have been evolving over time, and have existed over centuries. This paper develops a historical framework for the evolution of writing systems, surfaces and instruments up to the time their most modern prototypes were developed. The study was a documentary analysis of virtual documents stored electronically for access through the internet, text books, archival repositories and encyclopedia, providing insights into the past of writing technologies, and how these technologies have been changing over time. The study has demonstrated that the systems and instruments that we have today arose not by chance, but by careful thought and intelligent intention to manipulate resources found in nature. The study will provide an understanding of the progression of the most basic instructional technologies over the time of human civilization.

Back to the Future: Contextuality and the Construction of the Basic Writer

Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2006

Gray-Rosendale continues a project begun with "Investigating Our Discursive History: "JBW" and the Construction of the "Basic Writer's" Identity" ("JBW" 1999) in which she employed a Foucauldian archaeological perspective to trace the dominance of as well as the disruptions within the ...

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