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Peer reviewedEdiger, Marlow – Reading Improvement, 1979
Argues that language arts teachers need to guide pupils in developing good handwriting so that they may communicate content to others. Offers six principles of teaching and learning good handwriting. (FL)
Descriptors: Cursive Writing, Elementary Education, Handwriting Instruction, Handwriting Skills
Horn, Thomas D., Ed. – 1966
In this collection of articles, the results of recent research in handwriting and spelling are reported and evaluated in the perspective of studies done over the past 50 years. The articles included are "Handwriting and Spelling: Their Current Status in the Language Arts Curriculum,""Handwriting Research" ("Movement and Quality" and "Style and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cursive Writing, Educational Research, English Curriculum
Peer reviewedWestern, Richard D. – Elementary School Journal, 1977
A plea for the elimination of required instruction in cursive script from the elementary school curriculum. Difficulties of learning cursive are described as a handicap to student development of composition skills. Greater legibility and comparable speed of printing are cited. (BF)
Descriptors: Cursive Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Handwriting Readiness
Hughes, Anne E. – Instructor, 1969
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cursive Writing, Handwriting, Handwriting Skills
Download full textHorn, Thomas D., Ed. – 1966
In this collection of articles, the results of recent research in handwriting and spelling are reported and evaluated in the perspective of studies done over the past 50 years. The articles included are "Handwriting and Spelling: Their Current Status in the Language Arts Curriculum,""Handwriting Research" ("Movement and Quality" and "Style and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cursive Writing, Educational Research, English Curriculum
McMillan, Carol W.; Brown, Bonita – Teacher, 1977
Soon after "Prescription for Ailing penmanship" (EJ 153 105) appeared in this journal, two readers sent in their adaptations and expansion of the idea, including several "newly discovered" ailments. Here are their descriptions, diagnoses and treatments of strokenemia, messiosis, numberalgia and two secondary manifestations of "t"sles and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cursive Writing, Educational Problems, Handwriting Skills
