Print Handwriting for Teens
The Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Handwriting and Mastering Different Handwriting Styles
PHILBERT MAY
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Handwriting can be any of these things or all of them. For others, it is simply an art form, where the main emphasis is the neatness where the quality of the presentation. It needs to be a practical platform for others that helps them to bring things on paper, seamlessly and easily. Here, less critical than the fluency of the script is the look of the script. There are times for both of us that we need handwriting for one reason, and times for another. Our handwriting is very intimate, as is the way we dress and show ourselves, a part of our self-image and an expression of our personality. We all have a viewpoint on how our handwriting looks to others and would often like to be different from that portrait!
For humans, mark-making is fundamental. Symbolic representation is distinctly human for anyone to perceive, and since cave paintings were first found, it is understood that individuals have engaged in writing. However, it is not something that comes easily, like walking or leaping, to create the symbols of any writing scheme. Until we have been taught how to, we cannot publish, a truth that is often forgotten. In each writing system, the symbol associations have perfect movement patterns, and the spatial relationships between symbols and the page's directional conventions must be shared across generations.
Much like voice, handwriting is a way of transmitting words, and it often leaves a permanent mark. Others call it 'Language by Side.' It is a tactile means to share concepts and emotions and a way to communicate with others. Handwriting is a very complex capacity to master, one that incorporates elements of vocabulary, cognitive, perceptual, and motor, all of which need to be arranged into an integrated manner. Although we take it for granted, certain persons, young and old, find it very difficult to execute handwriting and believe they need guidance to improve the ability. Support from others with insight and expertise is almost always respected. It is to be human to write.
This book presents a realistic and imaginative approach to teaching the teaching of writing by pen. The secret is the conviction that teachers' behaviors and approaches are the essential ingredients for the quality of children's handwriting, much more important than the choice of any single handwriting style. It is especially critical that all the teachers in a school agree on the teaching method.
In the early days of kindergarten, what is taught about handwriting will influence kids for many years to come. Ability preparation is given adequate attention, and handwriting is taught routinely, but imaginatively from the beginning of formal instruction, most kids can learn very quickly. As there has been very little instruction for so long about how to teach handwriting, it has now been recognized that teaching and learning is a challenge.
Chapter 1: History and Evolution of Handwriting
Although we can get computers today to compose for us, writing has been a manual activity for much of human existence. And there are entities that are super adamant about holding things that way. While even the optimistic study findings on the advantages of handwriting over typing are not significant enough to be super conclusive, some schools are building handwriting criteria into their curriculums, and some studies find that cursive, in particular, is actually not any different than other ways of placing words on paper. But in human culture, handwriting has a long and storied past, and, if just for that reason, it won't go away too fast.
- Handwriting used to be a mark of rank.
- People used to undergo intensive instruction in penmanship.
- Digital text processors have diminished the value of tidy handwriting these days.
Before Gutenberg's printing press appeared in 1440, handwritten manuscripts and sacred documents were the norms.
Well, after the printing press, articles such as the US Declaration of Freedom of 1776 were published by skilled penmen in a clean, clean script. (The ornate signatures give their very own flair.)
The handwriting was a sign of prestige in the 17th and 18th centuries. With guides called copybooks, both men and women underwent systematic penmanship instruction.
In England in 1809, Joseph Carstairs invented a "bold and free prose" type of cursive.
Like this notice from Arthur Conan Doyle to Herbert Greenhough Smith in 1901, cursive is the go-to for writing messages.
The Spencerian cursive writing method was developed by Platt Rogers Spencer in the mid-1800s in an effort to democratize handwriting in the US.