A write out is a punishment

Punishment

Punishment is the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or group....

 used in school

School

A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...

s in which a misbehaving student

Student

A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...

 must write something out. It is different to writing lines as, instead of writing something out a number of times, the student might write out a page

Page (paper)

A page is one side of a leaf of paper. It can be used as a measurement of documenting or recording quantity .-The page in typography:...

, chapter

Chapter (books)

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 or paragraph

Paragraph

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 of their schoolbook, workbook or novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

. In the case of non-written homework (spelling

Spelling

Spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics. In addition, the term often, but not always, means an accepted standard spelling or the process of naming the letters...

s), the student might have to write the spellings a number of times.