I wanted to live in the center of progress, to write and join the masses of starving artists, hoping this rite of passage would one day lead to better things.
As times progressed, other styles of writing appeared, such as the regular handwritten form kai (as opposed to the formal or scribe style li), the running hand xing, and the cursive hand cao, all of which in their various degrees of blurredness are explicable only in terms of the seal characters.
Issues of consciousness, belief, and evolutionary biology rustled across the evening without any obvious fireworks going off to disturb the accustomed smooth and careful progress of the writing.
To date, the returning students attended private schools with good reputations; yet they did not appear to progress in the area of writing in the intervening school year.
Though this analysis provides an overall trend of progress in writing, this should be interpreted with caution, due to the small sample sizes.
When you've sorted out the purpose of writing your progress report, you need to consider the kinds of things that your audience is going to need to know in the report.
However, it can be a slightly less formal way of writing a progress report so it might be better to use it for memos to supervisors and emails to colleagues.
"The natural progress of things," wrote Thomas Jefferson, "is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield".
More recently, a new Narrowing the Gaps guide has been produced for subject leaders to help identify key classroom approaches for vulnerable groups of pupils to ensure progress in writing.
In Japan, on the other hand, pictographic kanji and the syllabic writing systems of hiragana and katakana had thousands of characters, which slowed the progress of one writing machine: the first Japanese typewriter had 2,400 keys.
In "Unless It Moves the Human Heart," I track the progress of a graduate writing course I taught at Stony Brook University in the spring semester of 2008.
