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Academic writing
* encompasses a variety of genres and styles.
* involves skills in research, analysis, synthesis and scholarly argument.
* is to political writing as figure skating.
* specialized form of conversation.

Advanced writing
* Advanced Writing course for students with demonstrated superior writing skills.
* course in critical reading, critical thinking, research, and writing.

Ancient writing
* Many ancient writings refer to wives as sisters and husbands as brothers.
* describe classic symptoms of schizophrenia.
* speak of the single eye which is the light receptor of the body.

Apocalyptic writing
* forecast the ultimate destiny of the world.
* is characterized by symbols in dreams and visions.

Automatic writing
* form of channeling.
* is often hard to read and the words are often joined together
  - really a form of channeling
  - the most direct of Surrealist technique
* method that many people enjoy.
* type of motor automatism.

Chinese writing
* complex system of thousands of pictographic and ideographic characters.
* is about cooking
  - written from top to bottom

Clear writing
* is an important element of success in college and throughout life.
* means designing materials that are easy to use because they are organized logically.
* skill that can be mastered.
* way of presenting information so that it can be easily read.

Creative writing
* begins when the spark of an idea ignites the fuel of language.
* form of self-expression.
* helps develop communication skills and encourages the imagination.
* is about accessing the unconscious
  - an increasingly important aspect of literary education
* plays an important role in all of our lives.
* way to uncover interdependence and meaning.

Early writing
* begins when a child makes a mark and calls it a word or a letter.
* part of literacy.

Effective writing
* helps people remember, organize, and process information.
* is fundamental to the practice of public relations.

Expressive writing
* can help people heal emotionally and physically.
* is the culmination of development for all functions of language.

Fiction writing
* is an advanced and mediated form of playing with dolls.
* quest into both the external world and one's internal landscape.

Good writing
* happens when good people get together.
* is often a form of intelligent, organized, truthtelling
  - the skill of saying everything needs to be said, but in as few words as possible

Grant writing
* IS heart surgery.
* is an art that needs to be developed through continuous practice.
* saleable skill sought by employers.
* skill that can be learned and enhanced through practice.

Interactive writing
* is another way to communicate, by paper and pencil, or by fax or computer.
* models the mechanic of grammar, spelling and phonetics.

Japanese writing
* goes from top to bottom, and runs in columns.
* is part word writing and part syllable writing.
* type of calligraphy.
* uses different characters and symbols than English writing.

Legal writing
* form of technical writing.
* particular kind of skill.

Persuasive writing
* can take many forms.
* is organized differently and has a different structure than narrative writing
  - used to convince the reader to view things from the author's point of view