Composition (language)

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the way a writer assembles words and sentences to create a coherent and meaningful work

preliminary stage of an unfinished written or visual work in progress

school of literary criticism and literary theory

thumb|Example of multimodality: A televised weather forecast (medium) involves understanding spoken language, written language, weather specific language (such as temperature scales), geography, and symbols (clouds, sun, rain, etc.).

style guide

process in which words and phrases are formed to produce a text

variety, conventions, and purposes of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking

field of research focused on composition (writing and rhetoric) education

thumb|404x404px|Example of translingualism Translingual phenomena are words and other aspects of language that are relevant in more than one language. Thus "translingual" may mean "existing in multiple languages" or "having the same meaning in many languages"; and sometimes "containing words of multiple languages" or "operating between different languages". Translingualism is the phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language; a translingualism is an instance thereof. The word comes from trans-, meaning "across", and lingual, meaning "having to do with languages (tongues)"; thus, it