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"Reading begins With the Eyes1". Use This Statement to Reflect on the Relationship between Writing and Reading. At first it seems obvious that in order to have a reader, there must have been a writer. It has been argued that reading existed long before text became a form of communication; illiterate societies read and understood the world around them, the emotions of others reading existed in many forms. Our earliest records of writers date from 4000BC, and although very simplistic, their tools of writing and reading remain the same today - letters and the eyes. The eyes are "the world's point of entry"2. Reading does not simply refer to the act of apprehending letters, but to a process that involves not only sight and perception, but inference, judgement, memory, recognition, knowledge, experience and practice.3 When the first scribe scratched and uttered the first letters the human body was already capable of...

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