Handwriting was a therapeutic intervention with an adolescent victim of a serious electrical accident that occurred in 1972. It was initiated two months after the accident as one aspect of educational therapy. The handwriting tasks involved copying numbers, printing letters, copying shapes, practicing cursive letters, writing sentences, and…

Too often, students reach college without the learning, critical thinking, and literacy skills they need to succeed in higher education. Recent educational trends that promote teaching to the test, short reading and writing assignments, group work, and technological resources contribute to students' difficulties transitioning to college-level…

The aim of this paper is to present a concise coherent literature review of the Arabic Language script system as one of the oldest living Semitic languages in the world. The article discusses in depth firstly, Arabic script as a phonemic sound-based writing system of twenty eight, right to left cursive script where letterforms shaped by their…

Discusses a number of issues involved in handwriting and handwriting instruction. Notes that the successful selection of appropriate tools, techniques, and letter designs for modern handwriting education requires a collaboration of experienced classroom teachers, educational researchers, and traditional artisans. (GT)

Discusses the need for a new way of writing based on the use of the ball-point pen; describes aspects of experimental handwriting models that have been developed by the author. (GT)

Citing five drawbacks to the traditional "sticks and balloons" method of printing used in beginning handwriting instruction, this pamphlet proposes instead the use of the D'Nealian continuous stroke printing method. The pamphlet contains arguments for using the method with learning disabled and dyslexic students, suggestions for…

Argues the advantages of italic cursive as the handwriting to be taught in the schools. (IRT)

Reports on an informal study that revealed that a significant number of people who hold a pencil with two fingers and a thumb have mixed cerebral dominance, that more females than males have mixed dominance, and that those with mixed dominance tend to be more imaginative. (FL)

The purpose of this paper is to offer a reading of "Handwriting", the book of poems by the Canadian-Sri Lankan author, Michael Ondaatje, in which he recovers the recent and ancient cultural history of the island through his reading of different types of scripts and languages. The texts that Ondaatje rewrites in his poems are visual,…

Discusses how Doyle, through his Sherlock Holmes books, was influential in popularizing graphology. Holmes' unusual ability to analyze handwriting helped him solve a number of cases. Specific examples are provided. (RM)

Suggests that handwriting is a vital skill and needs to be taught along with adult literacy. Looks at understanding the importance of handwriting and diagnosing problems. (JOW)

Draws attention to the need for a useful nomenclature for handwriting and suggests sets of terms for use by those concerned with the teaching of handwriting and research into it. Sets out the terms in a series of tables along with terms commonly used by different groups of specialists. (SR)

Promotes an interest in the scientific observation of handwriting. Maintains that, when dealing with documents whose authenticity is suspect and under investigation, a methodical and complete description of each written document would allow researchers to solve identification problems, investigate group characteristics, and bring forth new…

Teachers in the school setting need to emphasize quality handwriting across the curriculum. Quality handwriting means that the written content is easy to read in either manuscript or cursive form. Handwriting achievement can be assessed, but not compared to the precision of assessing basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.…

Argues for the analyzing, studying, and describing of text pages as configurations of columns and lines and as constallations of alphabets. (FL)