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Tendency writing — is literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral. The name is borrowed from German forms such as Tendenzschrift … Wikipedia
Tendency — The word tendency is often used by left wing groups for an organized unit or political faction within the group. It may also refer to:* Bleeding tendency * Central tendency * Debs Tendency * Direct Action Tendency * Fist and Rose Tendency *… … Wikipedia
tendency — tendency, trend, drift, tenor can mean a movement or course having a particular direction and character or the direction and character which such a movement or course takes. Tendency usually implies an inherent or acquired inclination in a person … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Writing implement — A writing implement or writing instrument is an object used to produce writing. Most of these items can be also used for other functions such as painting, drawing and technical drawing, but writing instruments generally have the unique… … Wikipedia
On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection — is the title of a joint presentation of two scientific papers to the Linnean Society of London on 1 July 1858; On The Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type by Alfred Russel Wallace and an Extract from an unpublished… … Wikipedia
hieroglyphic writing — Introduction a system that employs characters in the form of pictures. These individual signs, called hieroglyphs (hieroglyph), may be read either as pictures, as symbols for pictures, or as symbols for sounds. The name hieroglyphic… … Universalium
Legal writing — is a type of technical writing used by legislators, lawyers, judges, and others in law to express legal analysis and legal rights and duties. Its distinguishing features include reliance on and citation to authority, importance of precedent,… … Wikipedia
Dhivehi writing systems — Thaana alphabet The Dhivehi or Divehi writing systems are the different scripts used by Maldivians during their history. The early Maldivian scripts fell into the abugida category, while the more recent Taana has characteristics of both an… … Wikipedia
postmodernist writing — The foremost difficulty in characterizing postmodernist writing is distinguishing it from the traits of high modernist texts such as Woolf’s Orlando, Eliot’s The Waste Land and Joyce’s Ulysses. Because the texts of both periods are associated… … Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture
post-colonial writing — As a starting point, post colonial studies is about the critique of and the resistance to colonialism. Post colonial literature is a term which has come to replace the older labels ‘world literature written in English’, ‘Third World… … Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture
