‘Writing’ Archives
Handwriting
Handwriting The skill of writing letters, words and sentences. Usually taught in kindergarten through second or third grade, two forms of handwriting are taught in most schools: manuscript writing, with each letter printed separately, and cursive writing, with the letters of each word connected to each other in a flowing, sustained writing [...]
National Writing Project
National Writing Project A model, university-based teacher development program to improve the teaching and learning of writing in American elementary and secondary schools by teaching teachers how to write. Conceived in 1973 at the University of California–Berkeley’s School of Education, the program was a response to studies showing that [...]
Travel Writing
Travel Writing Human geographers have a long-standing and rather basic interest in “travel” insofar as travel of a sort is assumed within a wide range of people’s movements, from large-scale migration flows and settlement patterns to a host of everyday activities such as the journey to work. However, studies of travel writing— written [...]
Intertextuality
Intertextuality The term was coined by the critic Julia Kristeva (1941– ) in her influential 1969 essay on the theories of critic Mikhail Bakhtin: dialogism and carnivalism. Kristeva argues that ‘any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another’ (Moi 37). By this she posited a [...]
Making Documents Look Good
Making documents look good Finally, remember that the end product should be neatly presented. This principle applies to every kind of document, but perhaps especially to longer ones, so a word about it is added here. Basics first: any message must look right. It must be attractively laid out, grammatically correct and well presented. This is [...]
Writing a Proposal
Writing a Proposal These are a form of report that must also persuade (maybe a customer or a colleague). A proposal that is inadequate in some small detail compared to one from a competitor (and very often your proposal is in competition) may easily be placed second. Your proposal may be rated less impressive or appropriate by only a whisker [...]
Writing
Writing At one time, geographers and others thought about writing as a straightforward mode of communication, one that could be used to directly communicate the results of their research. During recent years, however, geographers and others have examined writing more closely, and we now understand it as a complex form of expression that may [...]
Digital Signatures and Other Security Devices
Digital Signatures and Other Security Devices Electronic signatures are being used more widely as more people send information by e-mail. In addition, it is more important than ever that e-mails cannot be read by anyone other than your recipient. By using digital IDs or signatures you can ensure that no one is pretending to be you and sending [...]
Brochures and Leaflets
Brochures and Leaflets Now we spare a few words about other specialist documents, which may be used in a number of ways: for example, brochures distributed by salespeople, leaflets you display in a reception area, or items for staff information, or used from the sales office or for direct mail. There is, however, no reason why such material [...]
Standard Letters
Standard Letters Word processing is a wonderful gift of technology. But some of what it makes possible has real dangers. Standard letters are a case in point. Such letters (and other documents for that matter) save time and money and it may speed up administration, customer service and more to use them. They can be used to answer enquiries, [...]
