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A March 1593 letter from England’s Queen Elizabeth I to King James VI of Scotland, where she acknowledges his “cumber [i.e., trouble] to read such scribbed lines.” (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Think tech killed penmanship? Messy handwriting was a problem centuries before smartphones

Misha Teramura, University of Toronto

While the rise of smartphones and typing impacts handwriting, bad penmanship is far from a new phenomenon. People have struggled to read each other’s handwriting for centuries.
Older generations have sometimes been shocked that some younger people can’t read a handwritten note. (Shutterstock)

Why cursive handwriting needs to make a school comeback

Hetty Roessingh, University of Calgary

Developing fluency in handwriting matters for literacy outcomes, and handwriting is an elegant testimony to the unique power of the human voice.
What’s lost if we lose our handwriting skills? Flick/PhotoSteve101

Handwriting’s relevance in a digital world

Anthony Cahalan, Swinburne University of Technology

The making of graphic marks in the form of letters was one of the first activities of early humans. Written words are the visual representation of our spoken language, and handwriting is a personal representation…

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