Conversations about Handwriting
• St. Louis Today took time recently to highlight a woman who still manages to make a living with her handwriting. Barbara Winnerman has been a professional calligrapher for 35 years, and still gets...
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• Apparently, the chief regulator of school exams in England has declared that tests should be conducted on computers, rather than with pen and paper. As Ofqual head Isabel Nisbet sees it, handwritten...
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• Here’s an interesting little bit of handwriting trivia: The entertainment site Ugo reports that director Quentin Tarantino handwrites, instead of types, the cover pages of all his movie scripts. That...
View ArticleHandwriting and Laughs from 2 Great Sites
Being pen fiends, we spend a lot of time talking about, practicing, looking at and sometimes making fun of handwriting. Which is why we are delighted to recommend to you a couple of sites that will...
View ArticleCNN Wants to See Your Handwriting!
Schools across the United States are phasing out cursive handwriting, making it a hot topic of debate among educators, students and researchers. So, CNN has responded with a brilliant series of...
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• Researchers at a U.S. university are working with the FBI to compile a database of donated handwriting samples to use in handwriting analysis programs. It’s being run through the English Department...
View Article6 Simple Steps to Christmas ‘Thank You’ Notes
Now that the fun part – tearing open all those wonderful gifts – is over, it’s time to start thinking about saying ‘thank you’ to the people who put time, effort and money into making your holiday...
View ArticleStudents’ Hands Too Feeble To Write Essays?
OK, we’re understanding people, we really are. But the Guardian has published a piece that puts forth the idea students are so unused to writing by hand that it stresses them out to do so on exams....
View ArticleSurvey: Average Adult Hasn’t Written By Hand In Last Six Weeks
This might seem alien to those of us who pick up our pens daily, even if for just a few moments, but apparently weeks can go by between writing sessions for the typical adult. Docmail, an online...
View ArticleHandwriting vs. Technology: 6 Reasons Why Taking Notes By Hand Still Wins
Handwriting is always dying. Fading. Becoming a lost art. That’s how it’s often described, even by those who love it. But the thing is, handwriting is not some quaint remnant of the past that we look...
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