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Written communication

General and comparative works on the Semitic alphabet and its ancient and modern derivatives, or with similar series of characters employed to represent the sounds of a language, are entered under Alphabet.

Here are entered works on written language as a form of communication or discourse.

Works on the process or result of recording language in the form of conventionalized visible marks or graphic signs on a surface are entered under the heading Writing. Works on the writing of a particular language are entered under the name of the language with subdivisions Alphabet and Writing, e.g. Greek language -- Alphabet; Egyptian language -- Writing. Works on systems of writing used by several peoples are entered under Writing, followed by the name of the system, e.g. Writing, Arabic.

Works on variations in the style of writing in the past, and especially with ancient and medieval handwriting, are entered under Paleography.

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• Written communication -- Congresses
• Written communication -- Egypt
• Written communication -- History
• Written communication -- Periodicals
• Written communication -- Research
• Written communication -- Russia
• Written communication -- Study and teaching (Higher)

• Written discourse
• Written language

• Writing Selves, Writing Societies: Research From Activity Perspectives (2003), ed. by Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Rhetoric of Literate Action (v1 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Theory of Literate Action (v2 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (1982), by Per Linell (PDF with commentary in Sweden)
• The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by Barbara Couture and Thomas Kent (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum (fourth edition, c2006), by Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
• Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward A Taxonomy of "Small" Genres and Writing Techniques for Writing Across the Curriculum (c2011), ed. by Richard E. Young (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures (c2012), ed. by Charles Bazerman, Christopher Dean, Jessica Singer Early, Karen J. Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Academic Writing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Curriculum (2000-2003) (full serial archives)

• Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum (c1998), ed. by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on Project in Understanding New Media: Prepared and Published Pursuant to a Contract With the Office of Education, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare (typescript; 1960), by National Association of Educational Broadcasters and Marshall McLuhan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1987), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Empire and Communications (1950), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Minerva's Owl (1947), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Elite Discourse and Racism (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1993), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (1979), by Joel de Rosnay, trans. by Robert Edwards (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Networking Game, by Patricia Wagner and Leif Smith (HTML at pattern.com)

• Australia in the Information Age (ACSJC occasional paper #14; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, c1992), by Christina Spurgeon and Paul Chadwick (PDF in Australia)

• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Francisco Yus (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• International Journal of Communication (2007-) (full serial archives)

• Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)
• Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (prepublication version, 2003), by Brian Martin and Wendy Varney (PDF in Australia)
• Communication and Democracy: Coincident Revolutions and the Emergent Dictator's Dilemma (1997), by Christopher R. Kedzie (HTML at rand.org)

• The Psychology of Cyberspace, by John R. Suler (illustrated HTML with commentary at truecenterpublishing.com)

• The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Nancy C. Kranich (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Reading Rhetorical Theory: Speech, Representation, and Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, ca. 2022), ed. by Atilla Hallsby (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Business Communication for Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2010), by Scott McLean (PDF at saylor.org)
• Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers (2007), by Peter John Chen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• How to Study and Write Good Letters, Applications, Compositions, Telegrams, Agreements, Better Sentences, Important Letters, Speaking in Public, and Teach Yourself Good English (Nigeria, ca.1964), by Wilfred Onwuka (PDF with commentary at Kansas)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Information and Communications Technology for Development: A Sourcebook for Parliamentarians (2004), ed. by B. K. Gairola, Mahesh Chandra, Pooja Mall, James George Chacko, Phet Sayo, and Helena Loh (PDF at apdip.net)

• Internationalizing "International Communication" (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), ed. by Jinquan Li (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Content Analysis: A Handbook With Applications for the Study of International Crisis (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963), by Robert C. North, Ole R. Holsti, M. George Zaninovich, and Dina A. Zinnes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Straight Language for the Deaf: A System of Instruction for Deaf Children (9th printing; Washington: Volta Bureau, 1962), by Edith Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2005), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• Information and Telecommunication Technologies: The Impact of Their Adoption on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (1996), by Elisabeth Lefebvre and Louis A. Lefebvre (PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Rumor and Gossip: The Social Psychology of Hearsay (New York et al.: Elsevier, c1976), by Ralph L. Rosnow and Gary Alan Fine (PDF with commentary at Temple)
• Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), by Clare Birchall (PDF with commentary at a oapen.org)
• Tiny Troublemaker, by Joe Crews (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Measurement of Science: Study of the Development of Science as an Information Process (edited machine translation from Russian; 1971), by V. V. Nalimov and Z. M. Mul'chenko, ed. by Robert D. Hill (linked PDF files here at Penn)
• Data Science at the Command Line (free online edition; originally published 2014), by Jeroen Janssens (illustrated HTML at datascienceatthecommandline.com)
• Metalibrarianship: A Model for Intellectual Foundations of Library Science, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Nitecki Trilogy, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Essays of an Information Scientist (15 volumes), by Eugene Garfield (PDF files here at Penn)

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