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 ...

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 ...

This page allows you to type phonetic transcripts using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Simply click on a phonetic symbol, and it will appear in the text box below. You can edit your ...

Move the pointer over the row and column headings to see descriptions of the manners and places of articulation. Then click on the IPA symbols for each English sound to open a popup window with sample ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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

Effective writing is readable — that is, clear, accurate, and concise. When you are writing a paper, try to get your ideas across in such a way that the audience will understand them ...

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.