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  2. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    This article cites its sources but its page reference ranges are too broad or incorrect. Please help in adding a more precise page range. (July 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Survey of eight prominent scripts (left to right, top to bottom): Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Maya script, Devanagari, Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Braille Part of ...

  3. Composition studies - Wikipedia

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    Composition studies (also referred to as composition and rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, writing studies, or simply composition) is the professional field of writing, research, and instruction, [1] focusing especially on writing at the college level in the United States.

  4. Writing across the curriculum - Wikipedia

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    Writing across the curriculum (WAC) is a movement within contemporary composition studies that concerns itself with writing in classes beyond composition, literature, and other English courses. According to a comprehensive survey performed in 2006–2007, approximately half of American institutes of higher learning have something that can be ...

  5. Joseph M. Williams - Wikipedia

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    Joseph M. Williams (18 August 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio – 22 February 2008 in South Haven, Michigan) was a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago where he promoted clarity in writing for many years. He authored several books on language and writing.

  6. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument. Today, this is most commonly done with a pen, or pencil, but throughout history has included many different implements. The various generic and formal historical styles of writing are called "hands" while an individual's style of penmanship is referred to as ...

  7. Hittite cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    Examples of this practice include the -a-in iš-ḫa-a-aš "master" or in la-a-man "name", ú-i-da-a-ar "waters". In some cases, it may indicate an inherited long vowel ( lāman , cognate to Latin nōmen ; widār , cognate to Greek ὕδωρ hudōr ), but it may also have other functions connected with 'word accentuation'.

  8. Basic writing - Wikipedia

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    David Bartholomae was a professor of English and chair of the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.Bartholomae's most-referenced publication about BW is the book chapter "Inventing the University", in which he unpacks the audience and purpose of writing for the academy, particularly from the perspective of students new to this discourse community.

  9. Written language - Wikipedia

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    Scholars mark the difference between prehistory and history with the invention of the first written language. [14] 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]