In this week’s reading of A Better Pencil by Denis Baron it talks about how when writing in text first began it wasn’t trusted by anyone. Writing could not be trusted because of how easily a random person could create a letter that is giving him a large amount of a rich persons land and without proof that the letter was a fake. So to prove that the letter is real signatures would be written on the letter or even a symbol that shows that it is the real person was introduced.

As time progressed signatures became an important part of writing a letter to show it authenticity. You can basically say that the signature or symbol at the end of the letter is the writer’s identity because if someone could perfectly copy the signature then they have access to pretty much anything the person owns. In today’s society any signature can be copied and pasted on any blank document, but its not always perfect because a signature created by a pen as compared to machine has more authenticity to it.