Lifehacker

Improve Your Handwriting by Writing With Your Shoulders, Not with Your Fingers

You might think that the best penmanship would involve excellent finger control over the pen, but your fingers actually don't help you write better—they can make your handwriting worse. Dyas A. Lawson ...
PBS

Try these 3 writing exercises from Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Less’

Our June pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This” is Andrew Sean Greer’s novel “Less.” Become a member of the book club by joining our Facebook group, or by signing up to ...
Scientific American

Know Yourself Better by Writing What Pops into Your Head

For decades, physician and author Silke Heimes has been leading groups in therapeutic exercises to put thoughts and feelings down on paper. Heimes, a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of ...
The Conversation

Our research shows children produce better pieces of writing by hand. But they need keyboard skills too

Deborah Pino Pasternak receives funding from The Ian Potter Foundation, and the ACT Education Directorate via the Affiliated Schools Funded Research Projects. Susan Ledger received funding from Ian ...
The Straits Times

Why handwriting matters

Once an essential life skill, writing by hand is now saved for special occasions like wedding invitations. Sometimes, we do it when we need to scribble down a quick note. As we observed generational ...
The Conversation

How much does handwriting matter?

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Handwriting is dead, long live keyboard skills! So says the Finnish education system. From 2016 handwriting will no longer ...