The Craft of Writing: A Panacea for Low Intelligibility

Abstract

 Writing is a natural activity. All physically and mentally normal people learn to speak a language. A written message can be received, stored and refer back to at anytime. Bell and Buraby (1983) see writing as an extremely complex cognitive activity in which the writer is required to demonstrate control of a number of variables simultaneously. At the sentence level, these variables include control of content, format, sentence structure, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and letter formation. Beyond the sentence the writer must be able to structure and integrate information into cohesive and coherent paragraphs and texts.