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OK, we’re understanding people, we really are. But the Guardian has published a piece that puts forth the idea students are so unused to writing by hand that it stresses them out to do so on exams.

C’mon…seriously?

From the Guardian:

For the moment it seems that the pen and paper are here to stay, but examiners are aware of the strain written tests place upon students. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, English tutor at Oxford University, says: “Inevitably, anxiety is sometimes voiced that students are now so used to typing they can’t cope with a three-hour handwritten exam.”

Students use keyboards almost exclusively for classwork, then are required to use pens and/or pencils on written essays during exam times. Apparently, that makes their hands hurt and slows down their ability to answer questions. Read More –>

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Now that the fun part – tearing open all those wonderful gifts – is over, it’s time to start thinking about saying ‘thank you’ to the people who put time, effort and money into making your holiday special.

Yes, writing a stack of notes can be tedious, especially if there are a lot of them. But it’s the right thing to do, and it doesn’t have to be a complete chore.

Simplify the process with these quick steps: Read More –>

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Conversations About Handwriting

September 21, 2011

• Researchers at a U.S. university are working with the FBI to compile a database of donated handwriting samples to use in handwriting analysis programs. It’s being run through the English Department of West Virginia University, which is conducting two-hour “collection sessions” with volunteers. From the university’s website: The goal is to compile an anonymous data [...]

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CNN Wants to See Your Handwriting!

September 7, 2011

Schools across the United States are phasing out cursive handwriting, making it a hot topic of debate among educators, students and researchers. So, CNN has responded with a brilliant series of articles about handwriting, all linked to a “cultural census” the network is taking that asks everyday people to submit samples of their own handwriting [...]

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Handwriting and Laughs from 2 Great Sites

July 25, 2011

Being pen fiends, we spend a lot of time talking about, practicing, looking at and sometimes making fun of handwriting. Which is why we are delighted to recommend to you a couple of sites that will give you huge laughs about nonsensical stuff while exposing you to handwriting samples from around the world.

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Conversations about Handwriting

May 4, 2011

• Here’s an interesting little bit of handwriting trivia: The entertainment site Ugo reports that director Quentin Tarantino handwrites, instead of types, the cover pages of all his movie scripts. That detail came out when a Twitter user posted a pic of the title page of Tarantino’s new spaghetti Western, called “Django Unchained.”

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Conversations about Handwriting

March 28, 2011

• Apparently, the chief regulator of school exams in England has declared that tests should be conducted on computers, rather than with pen and paper. As Ofqual head Isabel Nisbet sees it, handwritten tests are “invalid” means of measuring the progress of children raised on technology. So, James Preston has published a succinct rebuttal against [...]

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Conversations about Handwriting

March 2, 2011

• St. Louis Today took time recently to highlight a woman who still manages to make a living with her handwriting. Barbara Winnerman has been a professional calligrapher for 35 years, and still gets enough work to stay employed full-time, she told the paper. I stay busy designing wedding invitations and addressing envelopes throughout the [...]

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How to Send Emails in Your Own Hand Writing.

July 23, 2010

Pilot pens have created an application that lets you “Write by Hand on the Computer”. You use the app to turn your handwriting into a digital font; this can then be used to send personalised “handwritten emails”. Watch the Pilot Handwriting Demo Video It all looks very impressive but is it any good? I logged [...]

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Conversations About Handwriting

March 17, 2010

• Parents in New York are so obsessed with getting their kids into the right schools that they are hiring occupational therapists to teach their pre-schoolers how to write, according to the New York Times.

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