Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols ( known as a writing system ).

Writing A for the inverse of a, we have possible strings combining any number of the symbols a and A.

In 1588 Timothy Bright published his Characterie ; An Arte of Shorte, Swifte and Secrete Writing by Character which introduced a system with 500 arbitrary symbols each representing one word.

However, there are some pure alphabetic systems, including Personal Shorthand, SuperWrite, Easy Script Speed Writing, Agiliwriting and Keyscript which limit their symbols to a priori alphabetic characters.

Writing in Chinese characters was at the time a masculine pursuit ; women were generally discreet when using Chinese symbols, confining themselves mostly to native Japanese words ( yamato kotoba ).

Writing in 1960, he begins: " Consider a very long sequence of symbols ... We shall consider such a sequence of symbols to be ' simple ' and have a high a priori probability, if there exists a very brief description of this sequence-using, of course, some sort of stipulated description method.

• Honored in the competition for the third annual Literature Writing for Children-Course Mahmoud Maghout to honor the symbols of Arab Culture 2005 / 2006.

* Sutton's Sign Symbol Sequence, now the International Movement Writing Alphabet, an ordered set of symbols used to record movement

Writing the same symbols as before, and middleBB for the moving average, or middle Bollinger Band:

Writing is a system of linguistic symbols which permit one to transmit and conserve information.

Writing appears to have developed between the 7th millennium BC and the 4th millennium BC, first in the form of early mnemonic symbols which became a system of ideograms or pictographs through simplification.

Writing for the majority, Justice Jackson eloquently stated: " If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

The terms of Hopwood's will left a substantial portion of his estate to his alma mater, the University of Michigan for the establishment of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Creative Writing Awards.

Writing Culture helped bring changes to both anthropology and ethnography often described in terms of being ' postmodern ,' ' reflexive ,' ' literary ,' ' deconstructive ,' or ' poststructural ' in nature in that the text helped to highlight the various epistemic and political predicaments that many practitioners saw as plaguing ethnographic representations and practices.

Writing after various developments in biology, however, Spencer rejected what he regarded as the ideological aspects of Comte's positivism, attempting to reformulate social science in terms of evolutionary biology.

Writing from Nairobi, Hassan Abshir and Abdallah Derow Isaak both said any attempts to extend the terms of the TNG were " unconstitutional.

He was co-editor ( with William Bright ) of the book The World's Writing Systems ( 1996 ), and he introduced the terms abjad ( an " alphabet " with no vowel letters ) and abugida ( a system partly alphabetic, partly syllabic ) as modern linguistic terms for categories of scripts.

Writing in 1989, Michael White differentiated between TFA's brand of libertarianism and that of civil liberties campaigners, arguing that: " The unavoidable fact is that TFA represents that ancient tradition of English concepts of freedom, easily traceable to Magna Carta, which see liberty in terms of freedoms from restraints and obligations, not civil rights and duties enunciated by Jefferson in the rebellious American colonies, by Tom Paine and the revolutionaries of 1789 ".

Writing to James Joyce in April 1914, Pound described the magazine in ambiguous terms: " Lewis is starting a new Futurist, Cubist, Imagiste Quarterly ....

Published in 1906, Johnston ’ s best known work Writing, Illuminating & Lettering never used the terms “ Foundational ” or “ Foundational Hand ” for which he is most remembered.

For example, words such as " overhead panel ", " grease ", " propeller ", " to ream ", and " to drill " are not listed in the Dictionary, but they qualify as approved terms under the guidelines listed in Part 1, Section 1 ( specifically, Writing Rules 1. 5 and 1. 10 ).

Writing it explicitly in terms of mixing angles is extremely cumbersome if there are more than two neutrinos that participate in mixing.

' Writing these pieces ' said Tóibín, ' helped me to come to terms with things-with my own interest in secret, erotic energy ( Roger Casement and Thomas Mann ), my pure admiration for figures who, unlike myself, weren ’ t afraid ( Oscar Wilde, Bacon, Almodóvar ), my abiding fascination with sadness ( Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin ) and, indeed, tragedy ( Thom Gunn and Mark Doty ).

Writing was from right to left except in archaic inscriptions, which occasionally used boustrophedon.

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.

It is also where the Writing Center and Foreign Language Learning Center, two of the most often used and predominately student-run organizations are held.

Writing in 2005, the New York Times language columnist William Safire attributed the term ( in its modern usage ) to conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, who wrote on June 1, 2003: I have a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists.

Writing in the mid-1960s with another genetics student of Ronald A. Fisher, Anthony W. F. Edwards, Cavalli-Sforza pioneered statistical methods for estimating evolutionary trees ( phylogenies ); to estimate evolutionary trees, they used maximum likelihood estimation.

Writing at the time of Popish Plot, Crowne, who was a devout royalist, used his adaptation to warn about the danger of allowing England to descend into another civil war, which would be the case should the Whig party rise to power.

Writing at the time of Popish Plot, Crowne, who was a devout royalist, used his adaptation to warn about the danger of allowing England to descend into another civil war, which would be the case should the Whig party rise to power.

( Writing in his own persona, though, Marquis always used correct capitalization and punctuation.

Writing in 1850, the British diplomat Sir Henry Charles Sirr described a visit to one of the elephants that had been used by Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the last king of Kandy, to execute criminals.

Andrew Robinson also highlights, in his work The Origins of Writing, the possibility for writing to be used to spread false information and therefore the ability of the written word to decrease social knowledge ( Robinson, Andrew ( 2003 ) The Origins of Writing in Crowley and Heyer ( eds ) Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society, Boston pp 34 ).

In the dialogue for Automatic Writing, the words themselves were not necessarily the primary source of meaning — especially not after the kind of audio manipulation Ashley used to modify them.

Writing in 1906, Louis Chassevent recognized the difference ( and as Daniel Robbins pointed out in his Gleizes catalogue, used the word " cube " which later would be taken up by Louis Vauxelles to baptize Cubism ): " M. Metzinger is a mosaicist like M. Signac but he brings more precision to the cutting of his cubes of color which appear to have been made mechanically [...]".

Writing later in the eighteenth century, the Whig member of parliament Edmund Burke used the speeches of Whig leaders at the Sacheverell trial in his An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs ( 1791 ) to demonstrate true Whiggism ( as opposed to the beliefs of the Foxite ' New Whigs ').

A group of graduate students working in the Computer Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin used the toolkit to develop a prototype version of a game to be used in undergraduate rhetoric courses.

* Band scores used for each language sub-skill ( Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking ).

) Writing in 1921 Spengler observed that he might have used in his title the word Vollendung ( which means ' fulfillment ' or ' consummation ') and saved a great deal of misunderstanding.

* The FORMULA For Writing Fiction That Publishers Will Like by Bill Sheehy explains the Plot Formula that Mr. Dent often used.

Writing " ballet music " used to be a job for musical craftsmen, rather than for masters.

Writing in the 1909 Catholic Encyclopedia, Adrian Fortescue, while remarking that what the synod said of the East was false, took the synod's decree to mean that the form originally used in the West was the same as the Greek form.

Stephen King, in his book On Writing, talks about how he and his older brother Dave used the process to create their newspaper, Dave's Rag.

Writing in The Spectator, Kingsley Amis ( under the pseudonym Christopher Pym ) wrote that " each episode of the Bond novels meant the adventure was less probable and more preposterous than the last, and now our hero seems to have lost, as well as any claims to plausibility, the know-how, the know-who, know-what and sheer zing that used to carry the unlikely plots along.

Literary Chinese, Wényánwén ( 文言文 ), " Literary Writing ", is the form of written Chinese used from the end of the Han Dynasty to the early 20th century when it was replaced by vernacular written Chinese, or Baihua ( 白話 ).