Although people in many parts of the world share common alphabets and numeral systems ( variations on the Latin Writing System are used throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and much of Africa ; the Hindu-Arabic numerals are nearly universal ), styles of calligraphy vary.

Writing for Allmusic, critic Ned Raggett said " With their former band's generally gloomier shadows left behind, what Ash and Haskins draw from their time with Bauhaus is that group's melange of styles — their most underappreciated strength.

Writing in The Times, Henry Raynor struggled to characterise their music: " It is not a pop group, not a folk group and not a jazz group, but what it attempts is music which is a synthesis of all these and other styles as well as interesting experiments in each of them individually.

Writing styles of YA stories range widely, from the richness of literary style to the clarity and speed of the unobtrusive and free verse.

Writing at the time of release, Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, " This long, spare, contemplatively paced film, scored with a wide range of musical styles and given a sun-baked clarity by Stuart Dryburgh's cinematography, is loaded with brief, meaningful encounters ... And it features a great deal of fine, thoughtful acting, which can always be counted on in a film by Mr. Sayles.

Writing in these forms or styles is usually serious, intended for a critical and informed audience, based on closely investigated knowledge, and posits ideas or arguments.

Writing about the acquisition of academic writing styles of those who are learning English as an additional language, Swales presents six defining characteristics:

" Writing before the proliferation of the internet, Putnam claims to have found an overall decline in social capital ( really civic engagement ) in America over the past fifty years, a trend that may have significant implications for American society.

Writing a lipogram may be a trivial task for uncommon letters like " Z ", " J ", " Q ", or " X ", but it is much more difficult for common letters like " E ", " T " or " A ".

Writing the title with a small letter may work correctly as a link, but interwiki bots may fail to recognize it.

Writing in 2000, pianist and historian Joseph Smith cited Suicide in an Airplane among those pieces of Ornstein's that " represented ( and may still represent ) the ne plus ultra of pianistic violence.

He may have been taught various subjects, it is reasonably conjectured, by his future stepfather, who besides painting portraits and cutting engravings eked out a living in Boston by teaching dancing and, beginning September 12, 1743, by conducting an " Evening Writing and Arithmetic School ", duly advertised.

Writing tools and scratch paper may not be brought to the testing site.

Writing in 1894, Haggard believed that marriage was the natural state for women: " Notwithstanding the energetic repudiations of the fact that confront us at every turn, it may be taken for granted that in most cases it is the natural mission of women to marry ; that-always in most cases-if they do not marry they become narrowed, live a half life only, and suffer in health of body and of mind.

Writing experts have warned that if you " write to the formula ," that is, attempt to simplify the text only by changing the length of the words and sentences, you may end up with text that is more difficult to read.

Writing practice encourages the writer to be aware of their thoughts throughout the writing practice, and may be an end unto itself, rather than a means to produce a more polished piece.

Meanwhile a weary author may sympathize with Tai T ’ ung, who in the thirteenth century issued his ‘’ History of Chinese Writing ’‘ with these words: ‘ Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished .’” ( p. ix )

Writing as the basis vectors for the tangent space, so that, the Euclidean metric may be written as

Writing for Fannie Mae, Lang and Lefurgy ( 2003 ) note that edge cities may turn out to have been only a 20th-century phenomenon because of their limitations.

Writing in the Economic Journal, published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society, Astrid Oline Ervik states that while the book may be " thought provoking ", there is nothing that economists can learn from it.

" The objects of the Union shall be to maintain Reading, Writing and Dining Rooms, to promote social interaction among the members, to form a centre to which the various University Societies may be affiliated, and generally to fulfill the function of a Club for the members.

Each student is given an academic advisor, and the students may utilize academic support services if needed, including a student-run and faculty-advised Writing Center.

Writing may have started independently on various areas of Eurasia.

Each semester, the Ashbrook Scholars may submit essays for consideration for the Taylor Excellence in Writing Award.

Writing centers attempt to provide non-proscriptive and non-corrective response, instead relying on a fuller explanation of why a piece of writing may fail to fulfill the writer's aims.

Best Writing, Screenplay may refer to:

Best Writing, Original Story may refer to:

Writing in 1962, Ritter stated he felt profound " sadness " over the prospect that Germans may not be as patriotic as a result of Fischer.

Writing and production credits may be assigned to either the virtual band, or the human writers and artists involved.

Writing before the advent of the term ' homosexuality ', Fourier recognised that both men and women have a wide range of sexual needs and preferences which may change throughout their lives, including same-sex sexuality and androgénité.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

Writing that would later be incorporated into the Hebrew Bible names Sheol as the place of the dead.

Writing a little later, Tertullian makes the same main point but adds expressly that recently founded churches ( such as his own in Carthage ) could be considered apostolic if they had " derived the tradition of faith and the seeds of doctrine " from an apostolic church.

Writing B < sub > P < sub > i </ sub >, P < sub > j </ sub >, P < sub > k </ sub ></ sub >( t ) for the quadratic Bézier curve defined by points P < sub > i </ sub >, P < sub > j </ sub >, and P < sub > k </ sub >, the cubic Bézier curve can be defined as a linear combination of two quadratic Bézier curves:

Writing in the Brooklyn Eagle, drama critic Arthur Pollock called it " an unusual piece of work by a director not nearly so well-known as he should be.

Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argued that, as a result of global warming, " billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable " by the end of the 21st century.

Writing appropriate and measurable outcomes can be very difficult, and the choice of specific outcomes is often a source of local controversies.

Writing in the 2nd century AD, the satirist Lucian points out that while temples to the major Olympians were everywhere, none to Prometheus is to be seen.

Writing the work inspired him to further his interest in the flora and fauna of the seashore and also revealed him to be a determined creationist, although this position was typical of pre-Darwinian naturalists.

Writing might include the name of the owning military unit or commander or might be more imaginative: " Take this ," " Ouch ," and even " For Pompey's backside " added insult to injury, whereas dexai (" take this " or " catch!

Writing to the Christians of Smyrna, in about AD 106, Saint Ignatius warned them to " stand aloof from such heretics ", because, among other reasons, " they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.

Terrestrial testing might be subject to reasonable objections ; as one physicist wrote, " Writing the environmental impact statement for such tests [...] might present an interesting problem ..."

Writing in Variety, Todd McCarthy said the cast ensemble " could not be better "; he praised Spacey's " handling of innuendo, subtle sarcasm and blunt talk " and the way he imbued Lester with " genuine feeling ".

; Re-entrancy: Writing code in such a way that it can be partially executed by a thread, reexecuted by the same thread or simultaneously executed by another thread and still correctly complete the original execution.

Writing pyramid-style tossups can be more difficult because the answer must have many clues, ordered from unique and obscure to giveaway, without tapering too quickly or slowly.

It was also nominated for Best Writing — Screenplay Written for the Screen for the work by Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon making Toy Story the first animated film to be nominated for a writing award.

The opening chapter of the novel was originally published in New World Writing as Catch-18 in 1955, but Heller's agent, Candida Donadio, requested that he change the title of the novel, so it would not be confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris's Mila 18.

Writing simple software applications for keylogging can be trivial, and like any nefarious computer program, can be distributed as a trojan horse or as part of a virus.

Writing for the normal person is too complicated an activity to be indulged in automatically.

Material about King can also be found in his own partly autobiographical On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft ( 2000 ), as well as scattered throughout King's Danse Macabre ( 1981 ).