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 ...

Writing a letter in one’s own hand can be an artistic act. Handwriting animates paper. The bold flairs of calligraphic script shout for attention, while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the ...

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 ...

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

For example, the letter “b” in English represents a voiced bilabial stop, but no particular meaning can be attached to it in its function as a letter of the alphabet. Chinese writing is logographic, ...

This month, Anderson launches a remarkable, five-years-in-the-making project called called : How Letters Get Their Shape, an ...

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 ...

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.