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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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• 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)

• A Constructed Roman Alphabet: A Geometric Analysis of the Roman Alphabet, Including the Greek Characters and the Arabic Numerals, by David Lance Goines (illustrated HTML at goines.net)
• The One Primeval Language: Traced Experimentally Through Ancient Inscriptions in Alphabetic Characters of Lost Powers From the Four Continents (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1852-1854), by Charles Forster (page images at HathiTrust)

• An A. B. C. of Every-Day People, Good, Bad and Indifferent (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1902), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• An Alphabet Allegorical, Alliterative and Amusing, Appreciable at All Ages (London: Effingham Wilson, 1871), by L. J Hill (page images at Princeton)

• The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, by Unicode Consortium (HTML at unicode.org)

• ABC: An Alphabet Written and Pictured by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin (London: E. Mathews; Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1895), by Georgie Gaskin (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Fun (Los Angeles: Broadway Department Store, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Jingles (Syracuse, NY: G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co, 1920), by G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co (page images at Princeton)
• The Absurd ABC (London and New York: John Lane, c1874), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Alphabet of Fairy Tales (London: Gale and Polden, Ltd., 1920), by Doris Pailthorpe (page images at Princeton)
• Arthur's Book of Alphabets (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.) (page images at Princeton)
• Babes of the Empire: An Alphabet for Young England (London: W. Heinemann, 1902), by Thomas Stevens, illust. by A. H. Collins (page images at Princeton)
• The Bandit Bunny Alphabet and Other Stories (1901), by Charles M. Snyder, illust. by George Reiter Brill (page images at Princeton)
• Comic Animals and Their Adventures; With Alphabet and Rhymes (ca. 1880), illust. by George H. Thompson and Louis Wain (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Denslow's ABC Book (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1903), by W. W. Denslow (page images at Princeton)
• Edward Lear's ABC (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1913), by Edward Lear (page images at Princeton)
• Fairy A B C (New York: McLoughlin Bros, ca. 1880) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Footsteps on the Road to Learning: or, The Alphabet in Rhyme (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ladder to Learning (Albany: R. H. Pease, 1852), by Miss Lovechild (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Moral Alphabet (London: E. Arnold, 1899), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Naval Alphabet (London: Sands and Co., ca. 1901), by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• Pumpkin Pie ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1900) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Wright's Alphabet Book (London: Wright's Coal Tar Soap, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)
• Peter Piper's Playmates (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1930), illust. by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
• An A. B. C. of Every-Day People, Good, Bad and Indifferent (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1902), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• The Alphabet of Goody Two Shoes: By Learning Which She Soon Got Rich (London: Printed For J. Harris and Son, 1820) (page images at Princeton)
• The Bicycle ABC (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1898), by I. Noys Lewis (page images at Princeton)
• The Children of Many Nations and the ABC (Rochester, NY: Stecher Lith. Co., 1916), by Carolyn S. Hodgman, illust. by William F. Stecher (page images at Princeton)
• The Child's Alphabet, Emblematically Described and Embellished by Twenty-Four Pictures, Brought Into Easy Verse, for the Tender Capacities of Young Readers: The Whole Contrived to Allure Children Into the Love of Learning (Glasgow: Printed by J. And M. Robertson, 1805) (page images at Princeton)
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)
• The Jolly Adventures of Billy Van and Betty Camp (Indianapolis: Van Camp Products Co., c1923), by Edward M. Carney, illust. by Carl Mueller
  • page images at Princeton
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jolly Animal ABC (New York: McLoughin Bros., ca. 1890) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Keith ABC for Children (Boston: Publicity Department, Keith's Theatre, 1906), by James F. McNally, contrib. by B. F. Keith, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (page images at Princeton)
• Laugh and Learn ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1900) (page images at Princeton)
• Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• The Mother's Picture Alphabet (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1887) (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Old Aunt Elspa's ABC: We'll Soon Learn To Read, Then How Clever We'll Be (London: Field and Tuer; E.C. Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1884), by Joseph Crawhall (page images at Princeton)
• Take Your Choice! or, A Peep at my Playmates (London: Printed for J. Harris and Son, 1822), by Pat Playful (page images at Princeton)
• The Teddy Bear ABC (Boston and New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., c1907), by Laura Rinkle Johnson, illust. by Margaret Landers Sanford (page images at Princeton)
• Tom Thumb's Alphabet (London: W. Darton and Son, ca. 1836) (page images at Princeton)
• The Union ABC (Boston: Degen, Estes, and Co., ca. 1864) (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Health Cards (New York: American Child Health Association, 1915) (page images at Princeton)
• Goldfish at School: or, The Alphabet of Frank the Fisherman (London: Hodgson and Co., 1823) (page images at Princeton)
• The Golfer's Alphabet (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Van Tassel Sutphen, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Union Label Alphabet For Little and Big Children (Chicago: Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America, 1905), by Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America (page images at Princeton)
• An A B C, for Baby Patriots (London: Dean and Son, 1899), by Mrs. Ernest Ames (page images at Florida)

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