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  2. 6 Signs You Need to Improve Your Writing Skills - AOL

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    Getty By Kaleigh Moore Whether you're interviewing a new employee or you're trying to spot some of the better writers on your team, being able to identify weak writing skills is a key skill you ...

  3. Dysgraphia - Wikipedia

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    The DSM is unclear in whether writing refers only to the motor skills involved in writing, or if it also includes orthographic skills and spelling. [ 4 ] Dysgraphia should be distinguished from agraphia (sometimes called acquired dysgraphia) , which is an acquired loss of the ability to write resulting from brain injury , progressive illness ...

  4. Stress and vowel reduction in English - Wikipedia

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    The homonymy resulting from the use of some of the weak forms can lead to confusion in writing; the identity of the weak forms of have and of sometimes leads to misspellings such as "would of", "could of", etc. for would have, could have, etc. English weak forms are clitics: they form a rhythmic pattern with an adjacent word, and cannot occur ...

  5. Stress (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Stress in these languages is usually truly lexical and must be memorized as part of the pronunciation of an individual word. In some languages, such as Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Lakota and, to some extent, Italian, stress is even represented in writing using diacritical marks, for example in the Spanish words célebre and celebré ...

  6. Agraphia - Wikipedia

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    Agraphia is an acquired neurological disorder causing a loss in the ability to communicate through writing, either due to some form of motor dysfunction [1] or an inability to spell. [2] The loss of writing ability may present with other language or neurological disorders; [ 1 ] disorders appearing commonly with agraphia are alexia , aphasia ...

  7. Syllable - Wikipedia

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    In most languages, the actually spoken syllables are the basis of syllabification in writing too. Due to the very weak correspondence between sounds and letters in the spelling of modern English, for example, written syllabification in English has to be based mostly on etymological i.e. morphological instead of phonetic principles.

  8. Old Norse morphology - Wikipedia

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    Old Norse has three categories of verbs (strong, weak, & present-preterite) and two categories of nouns (strong, weak). Conjugation and declension are carried out by a mix of inflection and two nonconcatenative morphological processes: umlaut, a backness-based alteration to the root vowel; and ablaut, a replacement of the root vowel, in verbs.

  9. Bidirectional text - Wikipedia

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    Bidirectional script support is the capability of a computer system to correctly display bidirectional text. The term is often shortened to "BiDi" or "bidi".Early computer installations were designed only to support a single writing system, typically for left-to-right scripts based on the Latin alphabet only.