Writing a letter in one’s own hand can be an artistic act. Handwriting animates paper. The bold flairs of calligraphic script shout for attention, while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. We love our kids’ first drawings. They draw before they write, so their drawings seem somehow miraculous in those early ...

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...

Cursive may seem like an outdated skill. In fact, in 2010, The Common Core standards dropped it as a requirement to be taught in elementary schools. However, recent studies revealed that this ...