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  2. Written language - Wikipedia

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    The first writing can be dated back to the Neolithic era, with clay tablets being used to keep track of livestock and commodities. The first example of written language can be dated to Uruk, at the end of the 4th millennium BCE. [15] An ancient Mesopotamian poem tells a tale about the invention of writing:

  3. Structured writing - Wikipedia

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    Structured writing is a form of technical writing that uses and creates structured documents to allow people to digest information both faster and easier. [1] From 1963 to 1965, Robert E. Horn worked to develop a way to structure and connect large amounts of information, taking inspiration from geographical maps. [ 2 ]

  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    In logographic writing systems, glyphs represent words or morphemes (meaningful components of words, as in mean-ing-ful) rather than phonetic elements. No logographic script is composed solely of logograms .

  5. Chinese character forms - Wikipedia

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    Primitive components are the final-level components of hierarchical dividing. For example, components 田 and 力 in character 男. A component composed of two or more primitive components is a compound component (合成部件). For example, component 咅 in character 陪, 部 and 菩. [12] Radicals (部首) and pianpangs(偏旁) are components.

  6. Rule of three (writing) - Wikipedia

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    The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. [2] [4] The three elements together are known as a triad. [5] The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising.

  7. Chinese character structures - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character external structure is on how the writing units are combined level by level into a complete character. There are three levels of structural units of Chinese characters: strokes, components, and whole characters. [3] For example, character 字 (character) is composed of two components, each of which is composed of three stokes:

  8. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    A writing system comprises a set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language.

  9. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts , often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution. It has been described in different ways by Aelius Donatus in the fourth century A.D. and by Syd Field in his 1979 book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting .