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Writing
* All writing form of communication and often the only form of communication available
  - prayer.
  * All writing is available by copyleft licensing.
  * References are more than adequate, and in my opinion do not need further elaboration. Writing is good.
  * differs from speech because 'the readers need not be present at the time'. We can read writing from long ago, and from different parts of the world. It works across time and space. It stores and communicates knowledge. Writing is one of the greatest inventions of the human species. It was invented after people had settled in towns, and after agriculture had started. Writing dates from about 3,300BC, which is over 5000 years ago, in the Middle East
* allows the keeping of records and better transmission of knowledge over generations.
* also helps children learn about and experiment with the structure of the English language.
* are activities
  - human activities
  - located in walls
  - oeuvres
  - skills
* are used for authors
  - communicating
  - creative expression
  - education
  - entertainment
  - humor
  - information
  - pleasure
  - relaxation
* begins with scribbling, drawing pictures, and inventing spelling.
* can also be an important tool for learning and for solving problems.
* can be a means to training the mind to think
  - more active way of learning content than passive listening or reading
* can be an act of discovery and exploration
  - discovery, of communication, of joy
  - consume a person because thoughts of a book are always in a writer's mind
  - serve to test and strengthen the mind and the imagination
  - take many forms
* cause catharsis
  - cramp
  - documentation
  - revolution
  - stories
  - thinking
* central feature in Chinese civilisation.
* cerebral-motor function.
* cognitive process that shapes perception and reality
* communication skill that has been used too infrequently in mathematics
* complex process involving a wide range of thinking skills
  - of composing meaning
  - set of skills that requires continuous practice
  - task that takes years of practice to develop
* complex, dynamic process as well as a concrete finished product.
* complicated activity which takes many forms and involves many processes
  - process which takes many forms and involves many processes
* concrete version of speech.
* craft and can be practised across media
  - or a skill that requires practice and dedication to get right
* craft that develops over time, with perseverance and dogged determination
  - is easily learned
  - requires both talent and acquired skills
* craft, like playing a musical instrument or painting with oils.
* creative act and creativity has been studied extensively
  - process that requires a lot of mental energy and discipline
* daily activity to ensure correct formation of letters and numbers.
* deep subconscious to conscious form of self expression.
* depends on literacy.
* direct expression of the imagination through language.
* documentation of one's feelings and thoughts.
* encompasses science, mathematics, art, athletics, and politics.
* focal point of every state and school district's education standards.
* form of communication and a form of social interaction
  - control
  - immortality
  - imposture
  - rehearsal
  - release, perhaps partly physical
  - therapy
  - thinking, a form of memory, and a form of communication
* generative behavior.
* gift of self.
* gives children the opportunity to use reading.
* habit, like exercise.
* has a different set of strengths and is often epitomized as the language of information
  - laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music
  - many different forms
* helps children learn the relationships between letters and sounds
  - control chronic asthma and arthritis
  - in acquiring and remembering new information
  - the mind expand to the limits of the imagination
* human invention.
* improves joint mobility in rheumatoid arthritis
  - lung function in asthmatics
* includes spelling, grammar, and the rational flow of thought.
* involves painting word pictures
  - the use of a system of signs or symbols to represent the spoken language
* is about sitting down and putting words on paper.
* is also a means for learning
  - way to discover growth in our lives
* is also an act of defiance of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  - enactment of self-discovery
  - integral part of math
  - important when it comes to reading
  - technology
  - the evasion of action
  - very important in the business sector
  - among the most important ways that mathematics is communicated
* is an ability that grows and changes over the course of a lifetime
  - act for making meaning and advancing thinking
* is an act of communication from writer to reader
  - creativity, which means that it is an act of love
* is an act of discovery, a means for personal growth, and a tool for clarifying knowledge
  - means of personal growth, and a tool for clarifying knowledge
  - expressed moral responsibility
  - faith
  - self discovery
  - art form
* is an art that develops over time
* is an art, a craft, a profession
  - and art implies communication
  - as well as a skill
  - but also a business
  - attempt to communicate
  - essential part of everyday life
* is an essential skill and an integral part of mathematics
  - in science and many other professions
  - example of a task that is best carried out by a single individual
  - existentialist vocation
  - extension of reading
* is an important component in most professions
  - the use of interactive texts
  - element of philosophy
  - part of integrating reading and science
* is an important skill for social work practitioners
  - in life
* is an integral part of learning
  - scientific work
  - the study of history
  - intellectual activity which stimulates the higher order functions of the human brain
  - interactive, recursive process used to convey thoughts, feelings, and ideas
  - invention, created by people who have agreed to common standards
  - obsessive activity
  - solitary art, driven by an urge to create and ultimately to communicate
  - believed to be very important in learning, perhaps the most important thing
* is both a personal and social activity
  - an art and a science
  - the boat and the wind in the sails
* is central to all of the media industries
  - the craft of lawyering and a key element in one's success as a student of law
  - communication with an audience
* is considered by many psychologists to be the key to the psyche
  - part of the critical process of understanding texts and their environment
  - craft and art, both a methodology and a way of knowing
  - derived from the act of using marks to represent sounds
  - design, an organization of elements focused on a unity of purpose
* is different in different disciplines and contexts
  - than thinking or talking
  - discipline, emotion, depth, and art
  - floral arrangement with words
  - for reading
  - founded in oral work and also in reading, summarizing and note-taking
  - hard work and it requires daily discipline as well as creativity
* is important in many jobs
  - so that they can communicate in more than just orally and visually
  - in itself the act of being attentive to experience
  - integral to the health of their soul
* is learned by writing
  - in various contexts
* is like making bread
  - pottery
  - painting with words
  - made easier by reading widely to get the feel of how language is put together
  - meant to be read by people who care about what the writer has to say
  - often a process of discovery
* is one kind of interaction, one kind of meeting between parties
  - means of communicating
* is one of the Internet's fastest growing fields
  - areas in which persons with learning disabilities often have difficulty
  - critical tools of communication by which the life of the mind is enriched
  - dominant modes of academic learning
  - essentials and characteristics of civilization
* is one of the fundamental skills of education
  - higher forms of human endeavors
  - leading stress reducers known to humanity
  - means by which particular subjective networks of associations can be mapped
* is one of the most effective means of educating oneself
  - ways to develop thinking
* is one of the most important skills a person needs to succeed in life
  - skills for college success
  - powerful technologies humans have developed
  - way to reflect oneself
  - only one form of language use
  - perceived information
  - physical work
  - probably the most critical activity of learning
  - professional communication
  - self-therapy
  - slow, cumbersome way to communicate
  - social as well as cognitive
* is something that happens to the writer
  - takes a long time to learn to do
  - which people either love or hate
  - speech put into visible form
  - textual play
* is the act of motion
  - area which is most neglected in English education in Japanese secondary schools
* is the art of communicating thought by means of letters
  - rewriting
  - essence of expression
  - exact opposite of therapy
  - expression of thought and derives from both experience and the imagination
  - greatest invention of the world
  - loneliest of art forms
  - material equivalent of the spoken language
  - means by which a computer provides the results of processing
  - method, content, and telos of all expressions
  - mother of eloquence and the father of artists
  - occasion for many skills and attitudes to come together for a specific purpose
* is the one area where deep and sustained access to technology makes a difference
  - universal skill that is valuable in every career and vocation
  - only socially acceptable form of schizophrenia
  - original form of asynchronous communication
  - place of interaction, exchange and search
  - prototype of social control through mass-communications media
  - simple, creative act of putting thoughts and feelings down on the page
* is the skill indispensable to advancement
  - that students say they care most about improving
  - task of putting the right words next to each other
  - transcription of linguistic noises into visible squiggles
  - traditionally a solitary activity
* is used as a tool for learning as well as for communication
  - to help students think about ideas
  - in almost every academic experience
* is used to build communities in the classroom and in society
  - communicate with others for various purposes
  - encourage progression from the spoken to the written word
  - foster thinking in developing and applying a design methodology
  - reinforce and extend reading skills
  - teach and extend word identification skills
* is, in fact, the basis for knowledge.
* key skill for everyone, especially for scientists.
* kind of self-hypnosis.
* learn by doing process.
* learning activity as well as a communications activity
* life-time apprenticeship.
* lowers the blood pressure and heart rate, and benefits the immune system.
* means by which a person discovers, creates, and communicates knowledge.
* means of discovery of self and world
  - discovery, always
  - eliminating distractions
  - to discovery
* meditation, a form of introspection.
* mindset, a psychological view of life.
* mixture of the art of communication with the art of visual expression.
* natural ability that reading and school can enhance.
* notation based on a language and therefore well defined.
* one-dimensional process.
* part of the learning process in all subjects at all grade levels.
* performing art.
* plays a central role in mathematical communication.
* practiced art.
* process , from gathering ideas through to checking what has been written.
* process as well as a product
  - an art form
* process of continually linking ideas together
  - continuing revision and discovery
  - study, examination, experimentation
  - trial and error
  - that involves prewriting, writing, revising, and writing again
  - whereby writers move recursively through a series of stages as they compose
  - whose finished product sentence, a paragraph, an essay, etc
* process, a logical sequence of steps
  - thinking process
* profession like a doctor, nurse or lawyer.
* profession, like rocket science.
* provides opportunities for children to gain control of important literacy practices.
* recursive and collaborative process.
* reflection of a child's thoughts, or frozen thoughts.
* rhetorical act that asks students to write for varied purposes and audiences.
* secondary form of communication.
* set of skills that people can learn, practice, and constantly build upon.
* shapes their perceptions of themselves and the world.
* skill and habit that can be learned by anyone determined to see their words in print
  - fundamental to all intellectual endeavors
  - learned by practice, like playing the piano or painting with watercolors
  - one can refine and bring to a higher level
* skill that can be learned and improved
  - best be developed through practice
  - everyone needs to work at, to continually develop, improve, and refine
  - has to be practiced
  - nearly everyone can learn
  - profits every college graduate
* skill to be developed and it takes practice
  - mastered
  - used to express thoughts and communicate
  - which is learned and which is improved with continual work and effort
* skill, a craft, and as such, is learned
  - job which has to be learnt, sometimes the hard way
  - and, like all skills, takes practice to achieve
  - like fixing a motor, landing a plane, or determining depreciated interest
* slow process, made richer by the passage of time.
  - practice through which humans act and make meaning
  - process that involves readers
* solitary activity that requires a controlled environment of concentration
  - activity, shared by many
* solitary, and often lonely, pursuit.
* somewhat schizophrenic process.
* special case of language.
* state of mind, and a passion of the heart.
* struggle between presence and absence.
* system of transcription for speech.
* takes on many forms and functions in society.
* talent, like playing the guitar or mastering chess.
* tangible representation of spoken language.
* technology for collective memory , for preserving and passing on human experience
  - inseparable from the materials and techniques of writing
* technology that helps executives and professionals be prepared
  - restructures thought
* transferable skill that can be applied to almost any job in any company.
* visceral activity, as are all the arts.
* vital part of the study of religion and philosophy.
* way of becoming a whole person
  - communicating a message to a reader for a purpose
* way of knowing, a way of learning
  - of thinking, of making meaning
  - making meaning, but it also form of social action
  - processing our lives
  - putting our feelings on paper
  - recording and recalling spoken language's sounds and meanings
  - testing values, principles and beliefs
* way to learn and can be used to teach every content area
  - think, to explore