Writing in sentence

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I have another experience: In my writing class, I give students a special assignment.

This is not good writing!

The really good writing I've seen in my class was not from the assignments with a long deadline, but from the 40- to 60-minute crazy writing students did in front of me with a pencil.

After 30 or 40 minutes, they write without knowing what they're writing.

I was working on my computer trying to finish a freelance writing assignment, and I got frustrated, and Conor used my anger as an excuse to put both of his hands around my neck and to squeeze so tightly that I could not breathe or scream, and he used the chokehold to hit my head repeatedly against the wall.

By writing, be creating these interactive Mother's Day cards, these kids were showing that they were really fluent with new technologies.

Again, it's useful to make an analogy to reading and writing.

When you become fluent with reading and writing, it's not something that you're doing just to become a professional writer.

So I started digging and writing and so and so on, and that work can be found, my personal work can be found at AfraRaymond.com, which is my name.

One of the first lines of poetry I can remember writing was in response to a world that demanded I hate myself.

It's not OK to let some decision go through without saying your piece, and typically, writing it down.

And a light bulb went off, which was, first, that I didn't actually have to do the writing myself, I could find writers.

And then the next light bulb was, better than just writing, what about film and TV, to get out to people in a big way?

The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, among young people in the United States and now the whole world today.

The fact of the matter is that it just isn't true, and it's easy to think that it is true, but in order to see it in another way, in order to see that actually texting is a miraculous thing, not just energetic, but a miraculous thing, a kind of emergent complexity that we're seeing happening right now, we have to pull the camera back for a bit and look at what language really is, in which case, one thing that we see is that texting is not writing at all.

Writing is something that came along much later, and as we saw in the last talk, there's a little bit of controversy as to exactly when that happened, but according to traditional estimates, if humanity had existed for 24 hours, then writing only came along at about 11:07 p.m. That's how much of a latterly thing writing is.

So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice.

Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages.

Now of course, as history has gone by, it's been natural for there to be a certain amount of bleed between speech and writing.

So, for example, in a distant era now, it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing.

The point of it was to listen to him speaking like writing.

That's what people did then, speaking like writing.

Well, if you can speak like writing, then logically it follows that you might want to also sometimes write like you speak.

What texting is, despite the fact that it involves the brute mechanics of something that we call writing, is fingered speech.

This is the time when we all assume that everything somehow in terms of writing was perfect because the people on "Downton Abbey" are articulate, or something like that.

"Bad spelling, incorrectness as well as inelegance of expression in writing."

As it happens, he was writing about what had become French.

And so, the way I'm thinking of texting these days is that what we're seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing, which they're using alongside their ordinary writing skills, and that means that they're able to do two things.

That's certainly true of being bidialectal in terms of your writing.

Larry was actually changing the dialogue about AIDS through writing this play, and Joe was by producing it.

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