Is it still cursive if …
Visitor Aya Katz — linguist, writer, primatologist, and handwriting rebel— posted a comment which leads to an interesting question. She writes: July 17, 2011 at 6:37 pm Kate, I agree that writing...
View ArticleStrange Tales from the World of Handwriting
/1/ It sounds like a Woody Allen movie, but it’s true … A bank robbery failed because of the robber’s illegible hold-up note. /2/ And if you thought your handwriting teachers were tough, be glad you...
View ArticleNot only doctors write poorly …
Not only doctors write poorly … here’s a nurse reprimanded for illegible handwriting. And then there is another kind of bad writing. This blog deals with “writing as handwriting,” not “writing as...
View ArticleHandwriting and Vocabulary Growth
Here’s an unexpected, unintended consequence of pouring precious classroom time into cursive … according to this study from the Journal of Education Research, the longer a student has been taught...
View ArticleSnippets on handwriting …
/1/ Here’s some proof that liking to use cursive is no guarantee of common sense or accurate spelling. Well, at least the cursive was competent. /2/ Incompetent handwriting — of any style — led to...
View ArticleFound: precise analysis of cursive defenders’ favorite logical errors
Found: precise analysis of cursive defenders’ favorite logical errors (I disagree, though, with this blogger’s claim that long handwritten messages are always an imposition on the reader. With...
View ArticleHandwriting News …
/1/ I’ve just learned that I have been very recently quoted on handwriting — well, on the perils of doing it badly — in a fairly big magazine. In other (and perhaps rather more interesting) news of...
View ArticleWhat was it like being a medieval scribe? Here’s my guess …
I wrote this yesterday in an an idle moment, while thinking what it might have been like to be a medieval scribe … SCRIBES OF CAMBREATH By Kate Gladstone (tune: MARCH OF CAMBREATH by Heather...
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An interesting blog about punctuation marks and their histories ……
Here is an exceedingly interesting blog about marks of punctuation and their often odd histories, where you are all but guaranteed to learn far more about the subject than you could ever have imagined...
View ArticleSome beliefs on handwriting are beyond parody …
The cartoon here — http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/08/15/a-mars-curiosity/ — was meant as humor, but there are people who really believe that … and who teach their sons/daughters/ students to believe it...
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