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thumb|Mechanical typewriters, such as this 1930s Underwood Typewriter Company|Underwood, were long-time standards in government agencies, newsrooms, and offices. thumb|This late 1960s Olivetti Valentine typewriter designed by [[Ettore Sottsass became a pop-culture icon.]] A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element. Thereby, the machine produces a legible written

object that can be "read" by reader; result of writing

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text. These references are sometimes made deliberately and depend on a reader's prior knowledge and understanding of the referent, but the effect of intertextuality is not always intentional and is sometimes inadvertent. Often associated with strategies employed by writers working in imaginative regi

process of analysing text to extract information from it

thumb|Person typing on a laptop keyboard thumb|Video of two-fingered typing on a notebook computer keyboard thumb|War correspondent typing his dispatch in the woods outside Arnhem, 1944 Typing is the process of entering or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, mobile phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition; text can be in the form of letters, numbers and other symbols. The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from Wisconsin in the United States, the daughter of Christopher Latham S

branch of linguistics

A pastebin or text storage site is a type of online content-hosting service where users can store plain text (e.g. source code snippets or error logs). The most well-known pastebin is the eponymous pastebin.com, created in 2002. Many sites with similar functionality now exist, and several open source pastebin applications are available for self-hosting.

text written by a copywriter

creating or manipulating electronic text