Instead of writing a text, mind map aficionados start out with a single word or concept on a preferably-very-large piece of paper and simply engage in a brainstorming session that is as unrestricted as possible.
We might be able to predict the exact physical configuration of the writing in a text that will be composed a million years from now in a language entirely unknown to us.
An obituary on Oct. 25 about Michael Grant, who wrote popular books on the ancient world, misstated the title of a text written by Ben Sira, the subject of an assessment by Mr. Grant.
It is concluded that "the location of the tonic in the recitation of a text written originally to be read as written may proceed mainly from principles of lexicogrammar" (p. 216).
Similarly, names of cities and places can change over time and even the formulations used to express certain facts can differ depending on the author's writing style, the target audience of a text and the time of its creation.
The students first wrote summaries of a narrative text and subsequently wrote summaries of an expository text.
"It'll be fun," Washington Coach Steve Sarkisian, the former U.S.C. quarterbacks coach, wrote in a text message of competing against Kiffin.
Thursbitch is, as its author once wrote of another story, "less of a text than a state of mind".
This fleet, bracing version, from a literal translation by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, has exactly the tone you want in a contemporary English rendering of a text written in another language in another century.
Earlier that year, the Prussian Royal Library in Berlin had acquired a fragment of a text, written by Hegel, given the title "An Ethics," because these were the text's first two words.
