In addition to making movies, Ephron also tackled writing in many other forms.

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Certainly Twitter lacks nuance and subtlety, but that just means I have an opportunity to talk about the ways that particular forms of writing have unique strengths.

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This translates poorly to longer forms of writing.

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The course, offered at AS and A-level, will examine forms of writing - such as prose and poetry - and different types of content, such as travel writing or a sonnet or a radio play.

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And as I said, I've writing about Hip Hop and its various forms for about 10 years now, and again, having grown up with it.

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He scorns a reading of the first amendment which protects only freedom of speech and the press, and not other forms of expression such as letter writing or making television programmes.

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For services covered by Medicare, alas, Congress' prohibition remains in place unless a patient says in writing that he does not want to fill out the myriad Medicare forms for reasons of privacy.

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The last government originally tried to measure efficiency against a whole panoply of targets: response times, arrests and convictions, writing letters to victims, clear-up rates, time spent on the beat rather than filling forms - a huge range of measures.

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