According to one theory, children don't "learn" to write; rather, they "acquire" writing fluency through inputs of pleasure reading in the same way that we acquire our native language by being inundated in it.
He invited Sarah Handler, an art historian, to review the stools he had acquired and to write an essay on their history in a book that accompanies the show ($60).
As outsourcing has burgeoned, Whitehall simply has not acquired the capacity to write contracts that stretch contractors, including third-sector providers.
As David Walker, former director of public reporting at the Audit Commission, wrote recently: "Whitehall simply has not acquired the capacity to write contracts that stretch contractors, including third sector providers… Officials seem to have given up on monitoring performance".
In return, according to Jacobs, Mill gave Taylor Mill little more than Mary Ann Evans got for herself by becoming George Eliot: she merely "acquired the freedom to write provocative articles … and to be heard as a man, with seriousness and consideration" (Jacobs 2002, 129 31).
Hunt has a fine account of the Liverpool banker William Roscoe, the son of a publican, who acquired sufficient cultural confidence to write a life of Lorenzo de' Medici and sufficient wealth to emulate his hero's collecting.
Both were equally important to the young Nikki, who used to read TV Guide and the electricity bill to satisfy her "wolfish appetite for the printed word," but in order to acquire the wisdom necessary to write her book, formal lessons had to be filtered through direct experience, which included the Dionysian splendor and squalor of her life.
Raw materials, land or money, which were historically difficult for African Americans to acquire, are not needed to write software.
It has also been posited, with good reason, that the newly acquired script was first used to write Akkadian and was only later employed for Hittite as well.
In many cases, the self-help memoirists have actually acquired their experience in order to write about it, a reversal of sorts from the traditional memoir.
