"down in writing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to writing something down on paper, or recording information electronically in writing. For example: "I wrote down my ideas in writing before the meeting to make sure I wouldn't forget anything."
She told the story to a twelve-year-old boy who took it down in writing.
His main interest in us began — actually, he put it down in writing fifty-six, fiftyearsen hundred yeago ago.
It found that just 53% had put down in writing what they wanted to happen in the event of their death.
The agreement — sweeping by design, with few details to bog down negotiators — puts down in writing for the first time the nature of the relationship the United States will have with Afghanistan once the bulk of American troops go home.
There is another paradox in the fact that Plato put the parable in the mouth of the last great Greek oral philosopher, whose ideas he had chosen to put down in writing.
Lord Chief Justice Woolf, Britain's top judge, was pilloried in the press this week for suggesting that the two legal systems are more similar than screenwriters make out.Lord Woolf was trying to set down in writing how far judges could "discount" minimum prison terms for defendants who plead guilty.
His lectures were also set down in written commentaries, of which the commentary on Book I of the Sentences (a commentary known as Ordinatio) was actually written by Ockham himself.
Student responses to the questions shown in Table 3 were noted down in written form and a summary table of responses was compiled.
It is preferable to have your goals down in written form.
Styron, already celebrated for "Lie Down in Darkness,"wrote the introduction.
Remember, there is no harm in writing something down.
