Chapter 3 traces and summarizes the invention of alphabetic writing.

As such, alphabetic writing was revolutionary in a sense comparable to the invention of the printing press much later.

Also they had never invented any form of alphabetic writing.

Furthermore, Joseph Harris pointed out that alphabetic writing is the result of multimodal cognition.

Literacy evolved so that students arrived in classrooms being knowledgeable in video, graphics, and computer skills, but not alphabetic writing.

Instead of referring only to reading and alphabetic writing, or being extended to other fields, literacy and its definition now encompass multiple modes.

The importance of the Greeks in the history of alphabetic writing is paramount.

The Nahua quickly took the Latin alphabetic writing as their own.

Greeks adopt coins and alphabetic writing from Asia Minor.

On the other inscriptions, the alphabetic writing has been used to express the common Greek language.