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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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• Communication
• Discourse analysis
• Language and languages
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• Written communication -- Psychological aspects
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• Written communication -- Study and teaching
• Written communication -- Study and teaching (Higher)
• Written communication -- Study and teaching (Primary)
• Written communication -- Technological innovations
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• Written communication -- United States
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• Written communication -- Washington (D.C.)
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• Written communication -- West Virginia
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• Arabic language -- Written Arabic
• English language -- Written English
• German language -- Written German
• Greek language -- Written Greek
• Greek language, Modern -- Written Greek
• Italian language -- Written Italian
• Latin language -- Written Latin
• Low German language -- Written Low German
• Spanish language -- Written Spanish
• Writing systems

• 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)
• The private, the public, and the published : reconciling private lives and public rhetoric (Utah State University Press, 2004), by Thomas Kent and Barbara Couture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parlata alla scrita. (G. Truffi e Socj, 1836), by G. B. Grassi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading and writing as ways of knowing and learning (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988), by William McGinley, Robert J. Tierney, National Institute of Education (U.S.), and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missionary paper. No. 22. (The Board, 1838), by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Program in oral and written communication : grades one to six. (Fresno, CA : Fresno Public Schools, 1939., 1939) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World: Writing Change (Leiden: Brill, 2017), ed. by Jacob Høigilt and Gunvor Mejdell (JSTOR ebook)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Protokol chrezvychaĭnogo sobrani︠ia︡ obshchestva li︠u︡biteleĭ drevneĭ pisʹmennosti (Tip. V.S. Balasheva, 1878), by R.S.F.S.R.). Chrezvychaĭnoe sobranīe Obshchestvo li︠u︡biteleĭ drevneĭ pisʹmennosti i iskusstva (Leningrad (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025), by Rachel Midura (JSTOR ebook)

• Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025), by Rachel Midura (JSTOR ebook)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Missionary paper. No. 22. (The Board, 1838), by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Student achievement in Illinois : an analysis of student progress in language arts, 1985. (Illinois State Board of Education, 1986) (page images at HathiTrust)

• "Write on Illinois!" : a users guide to scoring student essays. (Illinois State Board of Education, Program Evaluation and Assessment Section, 1984) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing (U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998), by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The role of task representation in reading-to-write (University of California ;, 1987), by Linda Flower and United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2006), ed. by Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, and Eric Ketelaar
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
  • PDF at loc.gov

• Individual differences in beginning composing : an orchestral vision of learning to write (University of California ;, 1987), by Anne Haas Dyson and United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing and reading : the transactional theory (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988), by Louise M. Rosenblatt, United States. Dept. of Education, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of emergent literacy with implications for research and practice in reading (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ;, 1986), by Jana M. Mason, JoBeth Allen, National Institute of Education (U.S.), Beranek Bolt, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading (page images at HathiTrust)
• Write to fight crime. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000), by National Youth Network (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World: Writing Change (Leiden: Brill, 2017), ed. by Jacob Høigilt and Gunvor Mejdell (JSTOR ebook)

• Lecture no. 4 to accompany part II, book II, the United Y.M.C.A. Schools standard course in salesmanship (New York : Association Press, 1922., 1922), by Fred C. Kelly, Leonard Porter Ayres, and United Y. M. C. A. Schools (page images at HathiTrust)

• Apantēsis eis auton (Typois P.D. Sakellariou, 1905), by Karl Krumbacher and Geōrgios N. Chatzidakis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lingua e nazione : avvertimenti a chi vuol scrivere italiano (Paolo Carrara, 1872), by Pietro Fanfani (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der gebrauch der schrift un'er den römischen königen (S. Calvary & comp., 1871), by Vasilii Ivanovich Modestov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Düdsge or Sassisge Singedigte, Gravsgriften, Leder, singbare Vertelsels un wunderbare Eventüre sunst nömt Romansen un Balladen : mit ener Anwising, dat Hogdüdsge un dat Düdsge in hel korter Tid rigtig uttospreken, to lesen un to sgriven (C.H. Reclam, 1804), by Christian Heinrich Wolke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Düdische oder sassische Singedichte, Grabschriften, Lider, singbare Erzehle und wunderbare Ebenteuer, Romanzen und Balladen : mit einem Anweise, das Hochdeutsche und Dudsche richtig auszusprechen, zu lesen und zu schreiben (in der Maurerischen Buchhandlung, 1816), by Christian Heinrich Wolke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mga hinungdanong lagda alang sa pagsulti ng pagsulat sa pinulongang kinatsila ([publisher not identified], 1928), by Paciente S. Villa and American Philosophical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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