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Welcome, New Tiger Pens Blog Readers

by TonyB on January 24, 2012

We’ve been picking up some new readers lately, so it seemed like a good time to give our new friends a little idea what they can find on the Tiger Pens Blog.

We’re all about ink pens here, from fountain to ballpoint, and the ways that people use them, whether for writing, office work or creating pieces of art. Occasionally, we’ll touch on notebooks and paper, but there are several excellent blogs that do it so well, we usually leave it to them (we’re looking at you, Notebook Stories, Rhodia Drive and a dozen others).

Our favorite pens are the ones that are relatively inexpensive, reliable and comfortable to use – gels and rollerballs and hybrids from Pentel, Uniball and the like. We’re also fans of novelty pens, or just about any kind of pen that is ‘different.’

In keeping with our love of pens and their uses, we run several regular features on the blog. In no particular order, they are: Read More –>

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Conversations About Handwriting

by TonyB on August 24, 2011

• An interesting letter appeared recently in the Wisconsin Star Journal making the argument that while handwriting is important, cursive actually is not.

According to a paper published in the Journal of Educational Research titled “The relationship between handwriting style and speed and legibility,” these writers join only some letters, not all of them, making the easiest joins, skipping the rest, and using print-like shapes for those letters whose cursive and printed shapes are dissimilar.

The author of the letter was Kate Gladstone from Albany, New York, the CEO of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works.

The kind of handwriting she describes is exactly how I write. Except for the legibility. Read More –>

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Conversations about Handwriting

July 27, 2011

• The Indiana Department of Education has decided that schoolkids in that US state no longer need to learn cursive handwriting. Instead, they’ll get lessons in typing. From The Telegraph: According to a memo sent by the Department of Education to schools on April 25 they can continue to teach handwriting if they want, but children [...]

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Conversations About Handwriting

April 7, 2010

• Would you believe that the best way to improve children’s handwriting is to have them do it lying on their stomachs? That’s what Channel 5 in Bismarck, North Dakota claims. “When we lay on our tummies and do writing we`re getting some weight through our elbows and through our shoulders,” said occupational therapist Wendy [...]

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Be On The Lookout for Pens!

April 1, 2010

Readers, you may have noticed that we’ve been running occasional features called “Totally Random Pen Stuff” and “Conversations About Handwriting.” Today, we introduced a new one, “Inappropriate Uses of Pens.” The purpose of these features is to bring you interesting, funny or just plain weird news about pens and handwriting. And we’d like your help. [...]

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