I: Reading, Writing, and the Difference -- 1 Orthography, Reading Disability, and Cerebral Organization -- 2 Predicting Reading Ability from the "Invented" Spellings of Kindergarten Children -- 3 A Note on Teaching Writing to Rio Slum Children -- 4 Spelling as Culture -- II: Writing-Systems -- 5 Some Graphotactic Constraints -- 6 Some Thoughts on a Historico-Genetic Theory of the Lettershapes of our Alphabet -- 7 Developmental Morphographemics II -- 8 Determinacy Analysis and Contrastive Orthography -- 9 Curves as Angles -- 10 Empirical Methods for Evaluating Generative Semiotic Models: An Application to the Roman Majuscules -- 11 Hieratic is Beautiful: Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy Revisited -- 12 Forerunners of Writing: The Social Implications -- 13 On the Interaction of Greek Orthography and Phonology: Consonant Ousters in the Syllabic Scripts -- III: The Scribal Tract -- 14 Sensory and Motor Functions of the Hand -- 15 Handwriting and the Writing Hand -- Authors' Affiliations.