I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ... a way of writing that was more like us — a blur of activity, everything connected, an oddly-modular alphabet that was supposed ...

Korea is perhaps the only country in the world to have a holiday to celebrate the development of its writing system, known as hangul. In South Korea, they do so on October 9, close to the date on ...

Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members ...

But is there a benefit to hours spent painstakingly copying the joined alphabet? Teaching children ... of classroom time spent on traditional cursive writing, the benefits, some argue, may not ...

Copy quotes or passages from books to get more handwriting practice or try the free cursive worksheet Bugbee offers on her website. If you’re really serious, you can sign up for Bugbee’s ...

(What ever happened to cursive writing?) “We think that our results can be partly explained by how handwriting activates different pathways to the same concept,” says Robert Wiley, a professor ...

They say your handwriting is as unique to you as is your fingerprint. Maybe they are right – perhaps every person adds a little bit of his or her personality to their penmanship. Just maybe ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...

They choose the passage carefully to ensure that the alphabets get repeated at regular intervals, to check for perfection," she said. Writing with such precision can be tiring and painful.

Handwriting is taught in primary schools, with children expected to write in cursive “legibly, fluently and with increasing speed” by the time they leave at the age of 11. But the increasing ...

Emily Bary is a MarketWatch news editor based in New York.