Night writing visited the National Institute for the Blind in Paris, France, where he met Louis Braille. Braille identified the major failing of the code, which was that the human finger could not encompass the whole symbol without moving and so could not move rapidly from one symbol to another. His modification was to use a six-dot cell, the Braille system that revolutionized written communication for the visually impaired. Night writing Night writing, a.k.a. sonography, was a system of code that used symbols of twelve dots arranged as two columns of six dots embossed on a square of paperboard, and is now
News Writing (UIL contest) team competition in this event. However, the school with the best performance in the four journalism categories (Editorial Writing, Feature Writing, Headline Writing, and News Writing) is given a special team award. Students have 45 minutes to complete the contest; a time signal is given when 15 minutes remain. Students are given a prompt and they are to respond with a news story. Students are given the option of either handwriting the story or using a computer (a portable printer is required). The judging criteria are as follows: All papers are read and critiqued, with the top six papers ranked.