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)

Traces some historical developments in handwriting, noting the effects of different types of pens on handwriting. Reports findings from a study of the late Roman cursive, conducted as part of a project to develop a new model alphabet for school children. (GT)

Concentrates on a few fundamental aspects of Renaissance handwriting that are well documented and that are relevant to handwriting today. (GT)

Contains a list of current references on handwriting instruction, mainly those published in the past twenty years. (RB)

Reports that a computer-based system employing a graphic display screen and a hand-held "pen" proved successful in improving the handwriting skills of three 13- and 14-year-old students who had not been able to sign their names satisfactorily. (GT)

Shows that, through the use of a digital computer, pen movements may provide information for the investigation of motor control in the self-paced movements involved in handwriting. Describes the apparatus used, indicates the kinds of information that may be obtained, and discusses practical applications, including applications for instruction. (GT)

Presents findings from an in-depth study of children's composing processes in an effort to explain handwriting performance in relation to child development and the writing process. (GT)

Reproduces a study reported in 1899 that compared the relative advantages of producing handwriting through finger, full arm, and forearm movements and that concluded that the forearm movement was the best of the three. (GT)

This study chronicles the process in which a young child teaches herself to write the letters of the alphabet. (HOD)

Proposes an approach to the design of certain portions of a machine for the analysis and recognition of handwriting. Measures the displacement, velocity, acceleration of handwriting movements, and the writing pressure of the pencil point. Appendix and references. (VJ)

Suggests a conceptual framework for the handwriting system, consisting of three elements: the hand, the writing instrument, and paper. Discusses the integration of these elements relative to handwriting performance, presents an overview of relevant research and a proposal for needed research, analyzes and compares writing instrument designs, and…

Presents an interim report on work with writer's cramp patients, suggesting that a wider view of this condition is needed. Discusses aspects inherent in the act of writing, and in taught strategies, that influence the attitudes to, and treatment of, this movement disorder. Describes simple practical measures aimed at alleviating the symptoms. (SR)

Notes that copying is a common technique for training perceptual motor skills such as handwriting; describes an experiment in which stimuli to be copied were presented dynamically or statically close to or distant from children seven and 10 years old and discusses the implications of the results for teaching handwriting. (Author)