That desire for writing is deeply rooted in reading long and fascinating books which since early childhood allow the renewal of styles of writing more and more mindful and complex. Writings have the power to make the reader become metacognitively competent, favour the development of in­trospective capacities, translated in a fluent almost musical speech.
Key words: reading, authors, diary.

This article aims to discuss some of the most popular critics to digital writing, demonstrating their scientific inconsistency. Then it presents the main characteristics of digital writing: the a posteriori organization of the text, the opportunities of text virtuality, the integration between writing and publishing. This analysis ends in a short review of what in digital writing is new, that is: multimedia, multichannel, in depth writing (thanks to hypertextual architecture). The final goal is to stress the new target of Education, that is Multiliteracy, according to what New London Group as already well showed.
Key words: digital writing, hypertextuality, new literacy.

The first Italian survey promoted on self-writing starts to be conducted ten years after the birth of Libera Universita dellAutobiografia in Anghiari and addresses the overwhelming need to monitor a phenomenon which is felt in great expansion. The comprehensive survey – here summarised in its fundamental aspects – highlights strengths and weaknesses linked to the phenomenon of self-writing thus providing useful hints about how to implement self reflective capacities and about how to develop memories in all the contexts under study.
Key words: self-writing, laboratory, human self-reflection.

L’autobiografia proposta agli alunni dell’ulti-mo anno della scuola primaria non è soltanto un genere letterario, ma è un percorso che pone le premesse per l’elaborazione del pro-getto di sé. Attraverso la memoria si ricostru-isce la propria storia, che può diventare un percorso, un viaggio di autoformazione, che necessita di una guida, di un insegnante, che condivida la stessa esperienza scrittoria. Scri-vere insieme la propria autobiografia è la me-todologia per provare il piacere di scrivere e, quindi, per superare le ansie della scrittura. Parole chiave: autobiografia, scrivere insieme, strategie.

Re-writing is a fundamental aspect in Western literary tradition. The present paper focuses on re-writing as a skill that improves not only the progressive acquisition of language competence but also of a human dimension which is the essence of education.
Key words: language competence, human dimension, humanities.

The film re-writing of a literary book is a topic which is not much treated in literature. Generally “obscured” by the wider relation between the two arts it shows its main meaningful aspects if considered as a writing interaction. The present paper analyses this issue through Andrej Tarkovskij’s artistic experience by investigating some ideas about re-writing whose elaboration shows all the complexity of this topic.
Key words: re-writing, writing interaction, narrative structure.

According to an ancient African legend when a rose is cut off it can grow again more luxuriant than before. It is a legend which crosses all Africa. It is the key idea of a continent where everything was born and where everything also changes very fast. A son remembers his father’s experience and recalls his own sons’ life. Flowers are as fragments of memories, emotions, experiences, hopes and dreams…It is told about a war of conquest, a horrific attack, a church built by prisoners from a distant world, a city which is thousands of cities, about sports and music. Everybody’s life is both like a race when fallen to the ground you get up again, and like roses when cut off, they continue to blow again. Maybe you cannot see them again but you can smell their exquisite but faint fragrance.
Key words: memory, father, emotions.