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hypergraphia
thumb|A letter written by artist Emma Hauck while institutionalized in a mental hospital; many of her letters consist of only the written words "come sweetheart" or "come" repeated over and over in flowing script Hypergraphia is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write or draw. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy and in Geschwind syndrome. Structures that may have an effect on hypergraphia when damaged due to temporal lobe epilepsy are the hippocampus and Wernicke's area. Aside
liner notes
writing including with a musical release
script doctor
screenwriter hired to rewrite an existing script
crossed letter
form of manuscript where two separate texts are written on the same page at right angles
credit
acknowledgement of those who contributed to a work
polygraph
author who writes in a variety of fields
news article
article that is published in news media
writing surface
surface on which text or images can be drawn
Manu propria
Latin expression meaning by one's own hand
acknowledgment
written expression of gratitude for assistance in creating a work
desk pad
table protector used when work such as painting or writing would otherwise damage the table or desk
text types
type of written text
fix-up
A fix-up (or fixup) is a novel created from several short fiction stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published. The stories may be edited for consistency, and sometimes new connecting material, such as a frame story or other interstitial narration, is written for the new work.
video game writing
screenwriting for video games
ductus
qualities and characteristics of speaking or writing instantiated in the act of speaking or the flow of writing the text; (unlike rhythm) performative quality that emerges by actuating the metrically arranged language in voice
Emergent literacies
early knowledge of reading and writing skills
legibility
thumb|Vulgate manuscript: Book of Numbers 1:24-26 Legibility is the ease with which a reader can decode symbols. In addition to written language, it can also refer to behaviour or architecture, for example. From the perspective of communication research, it can be described as a measure of the permeability of a communication channel. A large number of known factors can affect legibility.
Portal:Writing
Wikimedia portal
cognitive philology
science that studies written ans oral texts as the product of human mental processes
latrinalia
thumb|upright|Restroom graffiti, People's Cafe, San Francisco thumb|220px|right|Graffiti at Meilahti Yläaste. Helsinki, Finland, 2006 Latrinalia is a type of deliberately inscribed or etched marking made on latrines; that is, bathrooms or lavatory walls. It can take the form of art, drawings, or words, including poetry and personal reflections. Other types of latrinalia include political commentary and notes on love as well as derogatory (sharing low opinions) comments and pictures. Humor is also common, such as the phenomenon observed on some college campuses of writing puns about grout in th
Visual rhetoric
art of effective communication through visual elements
book packaging
publishing activity
valediction
A valediction (; derivation from Latin ), parting phrase, or complimentary close in American English, is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, or a speech made at a farewell.
writing in space
Instruments to write in outer space
word count
number of words in a document or passage of text
dialogue in writing
literary element; a verbal exchange between two or more characters
rhetorical situation
context of a rhetorical event
alphabetic principle
The predictable and systematic relationship between letters and spoken sounds.
rhetorical criticism
literary criticism that analyzes the symbolic artifacts of discourse that people use to communicate
manuscript for publication
work that an author submits to a publisher or editor for publication
archi-writing
In the philosophy of language, "Arche-writing" ( "arche-" meaning "origin, principle, or telos") is a concept introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida which refers to an abstract kind of writing that precedes both speech and actual writing. In the West, phonetic writing was considered as a secondary imitation of speech, a poor copy of the immediate living act of speech. Arche-writing is, in a sense, language, in that it is already there before we use it, it already has a pregiven, yet malleable, structure/genesis, which is a semi-fixed set-up of different words and syntax. This fixedne
opening sentence
first sentence of a literary work
Journal therapy
Type of writing therapy
transitions
concept in linguistics
composition studies
field of research focused on composition (writing and rhetoric) education
court hand
style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts
transcription service
business service
Potboiler
A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of low quality whose main purpose is to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of "boil the pot", which means "to provide one's livelihood." Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks. Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp fiction, and potboiler films may be called "popcorn movies".
translingualism
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
chancery hand
any of several styles of historic handwriting