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	Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Writing is believed to have originated by the simple drawing of ideograms: for example, a drawing of an apple represents an apple, and a drawing of two legs may represent the concept of walking or standing.
		An exception to the general rule that writing is an attempt to communicate is the writing in unknown scripts or languages alleged by mediums to be communicated to them by ghosts, spirits, or other, generally supernatural or extraterrestrial entities.
		Rarely, "writing" is used to refer to the making of marks using various methods, that is not, strictly speaking, writing, as in the "indecipherable writing" (a type of surautomatism) developed by the Romanian surrealists; "indecipherable writing" is actually more akin to what would commonly be described as drawing or painting than writing.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/w/wr/writing.html (644 words)

	Constrained writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.
		This is not generally what is meant by “constrained writing” in the literary sense, which is motivated by more aesthetic concerns.
		One famous constrained writing in the Chinese language is the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound shi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constrained_writing (382 words)

	Comic strips and constrained writing, by Jan Baetens
		Indeed, it is one thing to reconsider comics in the light of constraint theory, but another to use the practice of comics reading and writing to critically re-examine the definition, the modalities, and most of all the aims of constraint theory itself.
		What is meant by the second process – "integration" – may then easily be deduced: it is the permanent interaction, and mutual shaping, of all parameters of the work, subject or not to the initial constraint, during the elaboration of the comic strip.
		Constrained theory thus has no reason any longer to separate constrained and non-constrained elements, as is still done by most scholars, and instead should think of the non-constrained parts or aspects of the work as participating "negatively" in the overall action of the writing under constraint.
	www.imageandnarrative.be /graphicnovel/janbaetens_constrained.htm (2217 words)

	What Counts as Writing? An Argument From Engineers' Practice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I therefore believe that the output is writing as much as what we generate by printing out a file on our word processors, despite the gap of time and space that occurs between the human action of designing or programming and the appearance of a document.
		In another example of the unacknowledged presence of writing in engineering activity, a research engineer recently told me that some gatherings in his workplace are called "meetings" and some are called "presentations." Presentations always include visual aids such as transparencies, slides or handouts by means of which the speaker displays some sort of findings.
		Examining the writing that differs so sharply from our own may, at first, make us nervous for fear we are meddling in areas in which we have no expertise to the possible neglect of areas in which we do.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/12.2/Articles/6.htm (4486 words)

	Constrained writing: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Constrained writing is a literary technique (literary technique: novels and short stories do not simply come from nowhere....
		The most common constrained forms of writing are strict restrictions in vocabulary (vocabulary: A language user's knowledge of words), e.g.
		This is not generally what is meant by 'constrained writing' in the literary sense, which is motivated by more aesthetic (aesthetic: (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful) concerns.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/constrained_writing (790 words)

	John Cayley: Writing on Complex Surfaces
		As it is typically conceived, the surface of writing is a flatland plane, a 3rd-dimensionless scroll (however segmented or, indeed, fragmented) on which linguistic symbols, similarly dimensionless, are arrayed.
		A related argument, that practices of writing are constrained by actual physical media—paper and the book—is often resisted by poetic writers, those, that is, who produce work which challenges flatland authority and engages with language-as-material.
		Rules problematize the surface of writing, they are both writing and not writing both on the surface of writing and on a surface of another dimension of writing.
	www.brown.edu /Research/dichtung-digital/2005/2/Cayley (5670 words)

	The 20' By 20' Room: Constrained Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All three are constrained because they are being used to develop details in a shared experience (the campaign) with assumptions that don’t necessarily stem from the author alone.
		The first player writes a letter in the voice of a newly created character; in this first letter the writer should establish her own identity and that of her correspondent, should set the scene, and should explain why she and her correspondent must communicate in written fashion.
		Constrained writing is interesting to me because there are a lot of folks who we wouldn’t consider roleplayers doing it.
	www.20by20room.com /2004/02/constrained_wri.html (1471 words)

	A Constrained Vision of the Writing Classroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From this perspective, the phenomenon of politicized writing classrooms reflects conflicts in public life that are genuinely political in the sense that they are generating political discourse and political action: legislation, resolutions in the United Nations, picketing, reports in the media, dramatization in artistic and popular media, and so on.
		The writing teacher is often a graduate student or professional writing instructor whose approach is strongly influenced by the general orientation of the department or graduate program, perhaps by a charismatic professor or collective.
		The writing program's third annual spring conference was conducted by students at Syracuse University in April 1992 under the leadership of Laura Iodice, professional writing instructor, with the guidance and advice of instructors in her coordinating group.
	www.ade.org /ade/bulletin/N103/103013.htm (5461 words)

	Kids' Poems
		His teacher, Kevin Hill, commented on the impact of poetry writing: "With poetry, Kenneth was unleashed, and his talents were all over the page." Fascinated by the world around him, Kenneth could finally use writing to express himself freely.
		Rather than asking every student what he or she is going to write about (which is time consuming and allows for only a brief response), I will ask several to talk in detail on what they think they might like to write a poem about.
		Once again, our purpose in writing poetry is to free kids up to write, to make poetry writing fun and easy, to play around with language, to write without concern about "correctness," and to give everyone confidence in their abilities as writers.
	teacher.scholastic.com /professional/teachwriting/kids_poems.htm (1213 words)

	COMPOSING: Harry Mathews' Words & Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Writing can be restricted at the level of the letter: the lipogram prohibits letters from occuring in a text, the beau present requires certain letters, and other forms may place restrictions on the number of letters in a line (as seen in this snowball poem).
		Mathews excels at the use of lexical constrait in teaching and in his own compositions, and he has pioneered new sorts of constraint, including the chronogram, in which all the letters in a text corresponding to Roman numerals sum to a particular calendar year that is the topic of the text.
		Mathews uses diagrams as part of his process of literary composition to represent the structure of his narrative, structrues that occur within the story, and structures that his characters are imposing upong themselves.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/mathews/mathews.html (1105 words)

	Fed Ex Un Ltd
		Constrained writing has more to do with Rabelais and the Bakhtinian tradition of the vulgar and the excessive than appears at first sight.
		To write under constraint is always to borrow from others, and the work so produced is meant to be stolen by readers and critics.
		More generally, one could even ask whether the very notion of writing under constraint, with its critical refusal of the concepts of "author" and "inspiration," is not better fitted to the challenges of post-Holocaust narrative than the models held in traditional literary frameworks.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/wuc/golf-linguistic (1347 words)

	Lipograms and Other Constraints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Writing under restriction can, I think, meet the strict challenge if the fraction is 0.4 or more.
		I strongly doubt that anyone can write a paragraph or more of half-alphabet text that would not attract the reader's suspicion, but perhaps topics can be intelligibly paraphrased.
		In acrostic-style restricted writing, one insists that the first letters of successive words in running text spell out a message of their own.
	wordways.com /lipogram.htm (1404 words)

	University Calendar - Loyola University New Orleans
		This presentation will be an overview of the art of constrained writing literary creation which is governed, either tightly or loosely, by a pre-specified set of rules.
		Come prepared to be amazed by some of the recent developments in the field of word study, as well as in the practice of constrained writing literary creation which is governed, either tightly or loosely, by a pre-specified set of rules.
		He was employed at the David Sarnoff Research Center from 1980 until 1990 where he was one of the primary developers of the first digital video system, and then from 1990 to 1998 at Intel Corporation, working in the areas of digital media compression and software optimization.
	www.loyno.edu /newsandcalendars/calendar.php?id=2065&month=&year= (425 words)

	Brainwriting - Mycoted
		Everyone writes the problem statement at the top of their worksheet (word for word from an agreed problem definition).
		They then write 3 ideas on the top row of the worksheet in 5 minutes in a complete and concise sentence (6-10 words).
		Each person, using Post-it notes or small cards, writes down ideas, and places them next to the person on his or her right.
	www.mycoted.com /creativity/techniques/brainwrite.php (776 words)

	Poe, E.: Near a Raven
		This is one of my longer pieces of constrained writing.
		Constrained writing (an old idea, but one which greatly increased in popularity in the latter half of the 20th century as a result of the work of the mostly French group Oulipo) is the art of constructing a work of prose or poetry that obeys one or more artificially-imposed rules.
		It is a reference to George Perec's La disparition, and in particular its English translation (A Void) by Gilbert Adair.
	users.aol.com /s6sj7gt/mikerav.htm (1240 words)

	The Revolution of an Anachronism: Radical Hypertextualism in a Text by Renaud Camus
		My second point, then, is that hypertext should learn from those constrained forms of text, and learn more specifically from those characteristics of constrained texts which seem to restrain the freedom promised by the unlimited possibilities nowadays already given and produced by hypertext.
		This is a crucial aspect of reading totally obliterated by most discussions on hypertext and by all those who consider the fading away of the borderlines of the reading process a promise of freedom and discovery.
		To put it another way: the discipline required of the reader's response in the case of constrained text is less easy and gratifying than the quick and massive response to hypertext, but there is a good chance that it is the only way to real creativity.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/internetnation/hypertext (1320 words)

	MadInkBeard - Comic Strips and Constrained Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If one is constraining what one is writing about, then it will necessarily be autorepresentative and a bridge from constraint to work.
		...an expanded vision of constrained writing not only establishes a less schematic definition of what a constraint really is and means, but also, and maybe even more so, changes the status of the non-constrained elements of a work which can now be analyzed as negative constraints in their own right.
		Throughout, Baetens discusses the importance of comics to constrained theory, but he never discusses any actual comics except for two very brief examples on "dissociation" and "integration".
	www.madinkbeard.com /archives/comicstripsa.html (852 words)

	Cadaeic Cadenza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Constrained writing is the art of constructing a work of prose or poetry that obeys some artificial condition, often related to the alphabet or some other aspect of word or sentence structure.
		Cadaeic Cadenza is a short story of about 4000 words, divided into 14 sections, consisting of a first-person narrative interwoven with some quotations (by the story's narrator) from literature and other sources.
		As you read it you might try to guess the primary constraint imposed on the writing of the story, and also several secondary constraints which, as explained in the story itself, only apply to certain sections.
	users.aol.com /s6sj7gt/cadenza.htm (262 words)

	Journal Task - RW2
		Reading their frequent free writing makes it possible to gauge real progress and to see how students adopt what they are learning in class to their personal writing styles.
		The grade a student receives in RW 2 is highly dependent on their journal writing because it indicates their level of involvement, their progress and focus.
		I feel that personal free journal writing with no assigned topics and little emphasis on grammar is extremely helpful to students on many different levels and helpful to teachers as an ongoing assessment tool.
	mines.edu /Outreach/interlink/LESSONS/TEACHERS/CORETASK/2journal.htm (1131 words)

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		David was enrolled in a writing class and his assignment was to give himself a writing task and complete it.
		One characteristic of my personal writing is that I usually construct a central message clearly discernible to most readers a quality which David's writing never quite developed.
		His writing was nonlinear and highly symbolic, and it had a definite polysemic quality.
	www.idbsu.edu /wcenter/ww89.htm (1935 words)

	ebr10 --<Susana
		Conquered by the Internet, Roubaud has announced that the fourth section of his memoir is to be edited by way of electronic texts.
		Here, I present a short survey of writing produced under constraint and its criticism, each of which more and more invests the Web.
		Anne-Cécile BRANDENBOURGER is a writer who for the past four years has developed a vast work on the WEB: interactive fiction whose intrigue and writing are forced into existence by an original use of hypertextuality.
	www.altx.com /ebr/ebr10/10sus.htm (893 words)

	noulipo \| REDCAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The second annual experimental writing conference hosted by the CalArts MFA Writing Program focuses on the legacy of Oulipo--the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (“workshop of potential literature”) founded in Paris 45 years ago.
		This year our focus is on the legacy of the French literary group Oulipo, inviting a conversation between the originators of this major experimental collective and some of their English speaking counterparts and heirs.
		Our aim is to discuss currents in contemporary writing that combine strategies developed by members of the Oulipo with other techniques, to move beyond an oppositional idea of form and develop new modes of wordwork that challenge structures of domination by seriously playing with the wor(l)d.
	redcat.org /season/0506/cnv/noulipo.php (616 words)

	About Epigramophone
		Because writing is often like solving a problem or a puzzle, and the best and most interesting solutions to problems or puzzles that I've come up with have been the result of collaboration.
		Once a character or event is used in Epigramophone, it's open: anyone else can write that character into a new story, or write a sequence that includes the same event.
		Authors are free to impose extra constraints on their own writing, of course ("only two-syllable words," for example, or "always second person, future perfect").
	www.xorph.com /epigramophone/about (628 words)

	Writing by Earle Martin - constrained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the moment, the topic that I've given myself is "Writing two hundred words on a given topic".
		You should probably have a carefully arranged space to write in, an idealized area for contemplation and transliteration.
		I think I will try various writing goals as days pass, working up to a crazy froth of words, and a good quantity, not just an absurdly small snatch of it.
	downlode.org /writing/constrained (542 words)

	c h a n d r a s u t r a: Constrained writing and lipograms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the most famous examples of constrained writing is the lipogram:
		"A lipogram is a kind of writing with constraints consisting of writing full paragraphs or books in which a particular symbol, such as that fifth symbol in talks in which it is most common, is missing.
		Try writing a sentence, for example, that does not contain an 'e' (the fifth symbol)!
	chandrasutra.typepad.com /chandra/2004/02/constrained_wri.html (627 words)

	Fitzpatrick-O'Dinn Award for the Best Book Length Work of Formally Constrained English Literature
		A constraint is a systematic writing technique or overt formal structure.
		Examples of constrained writing include certain classical poetic forms (the sestina), classical forms not always considered poetic (the palindrome), as well as a potentially endless variety of techniques both known (the lipogram) and yet undiscovered.
		If you have a manuscript you consider to be somehow constrained, and are concerned that it does not precisely fit the description above, we encourage you to submit it anyway.
	www.spinelessbooks.com /award/constraints.html (624 words)

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