The written word has always been a core instrument for humans to share knowledge and express their ideas, emotions, and thoughts. From cave paintings and hieroglyphics to pens, typewriters, and ...

Humanity’s quest for more efficient ways of recording information can be tracked through the IP protection for the earliest pens through to today’s smart devices, says Marisol Cardoso of Inventa The ...

After several years of teaching data analytics, I have come to an agreement that at the end of each academic semester, I will suffer through grading between 20 and 40 group reports. Each report is ...

A SUNY Cortland class studying the evolution of writing doesn’t have a time machine at its disposal to analyze early versions of Homer’s Iliad. So its professor recently secured the funds for the next ...

Famed author and University of Chicago alumna Susan Sontag, AB’51, once wrote: “I write—and talk—in order to find out what I think.” A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that ...

Writing as a system of signs : Ways of communicating ideas ; Definition of writing ; Sources of information ; Study of writing -- Forerunners of writing : Primitive drawings ; ...