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Handwriting

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Instagram’s calligraphy king makes you want to watch ink dry.

a boy shows off his handwriting practice

To empower students with effective writing skills, handwriting matters

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Handwriting is dying a slow death

Culture
Handwriting

Close your laptop. Handwriting could make you smarter.

Education

Handwriting a much debated window into people’s inner thoughts — maybe

Global Politics
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Penmanship and Personality: An Ode to the Handwritten Note

The World in Words

From a loved one’s hasty scrawl to Jack Lew’s “manufactured” signature, how much do people reveal about themselves in their handwriting? Author Philip Hensher says quite a bit, though not as much as handwriting experts sometimes claim. Hensher argues that digital communications deprive us of the intimacy of handwriting

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