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  2. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    Linear writing is most common, but there are non-linear writing systems where glyphs consist of other types of marks, such as in cuneiform and Braille. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Maya script were often painted in linear outline form, but in formal contexts they were carved in bas-relief. The earliest examples of writing are linear: while ...

  3. Wikipedia:Saying something doesn't make it so - Wikipedia

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    In regards to sources, no matter how much one believes something, if another editor or editors add cited content which disagrees then you have two options. You may explore the source and demonstrate, if this is the case, that it is not a verifiable or reliable source. This will probably not be an option in most cases.

  4. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle's proscriptive analysis of tragedy, for example, as expressed in his Rhetoric and Poetics, saw it as having 6 parts (music, diction, plot, character, thought, and spectacle) working together in particular ways. Thus, Aristotle established one of the earliest delineations of the elements that define genre.

  5. Formalism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Trotsky does not wholly dismiss the Formalist approach, but insists that "the methods of formal analysis are necessary, but insufficient" because they neglect the social world with which the human beings who write and read literature are bound up: "The form of art is, to a certain and very large degree, independent, but the ...

  6. Literary language - Wikipedia

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    The formal style is generally used in formal writing and speech. It is, for example, the language of textbooks, of much of Kannada literature and of public speaking and debate. Novels, even popular ones, will use the literary style for all description and narration and use the colloquial form only for dialogue, if they use it at all.

  7. Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources - Wikipedia

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    It has a policy distinguishing among primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. Dictionaries and glossaries present a special challenge in determining whether the source is primary, secondary, or tertiary. One dictionary or glossary may be considered a primary source among linguists, whereas for Wikipedia's purposes it is a secondary source.

  8. 20 Contest-Winning Desserts That Will Wow a Crowd - AOL

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    When Ree first used her new stand mixer, she said she made no less than seven batches of this dough. They're the "key to Ladd's happiness," thanks to their "dark and magical, chewy and dense" texture.

  9. Begging the question - Wikipedia

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    The stylized dialectical exchanges Aristotle discusses in the Topics included rules for scoring the debate, and one important issue was precisely the matter of asking for the initial thing—which included not just making the actual thesis adopted by the answerer into a question, but also making a question out of a sentence that was too close ...