Virginia Berninger, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Washington, is a longtime advocate of handwriting.

I've found that bad handwriting is not a new phenomenon at all. In 16th- and 17th-century England, the vast majority of documents were produced by hand. Even after the spread of the printing press ...

Writing a letter in one’s own hand can be an artistic act. Handwriting animates paper. The bold flairs of calligraphic script shout for attention, while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the ...

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

For most people cursive writing is faster and more fluent, and extended practice soon eliminates the cramping, sore hands ...

Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive? What about your own habits? Do you write letters frequently or mostly tap out emails? Is your grocery list on your ...

(So far, evidence suggests that it’s the writing by hand that matters, not whether it’s print or cursive.) For adults, one of the main benefits of writing by hand is that it simply forces us to slow ...

From the societal perspective, academic standards in many states have become too eager to pivot from printing and handwriting by the end of first grade to tech-based work on a computer or other ...

Although it’s a bit rough-and-ready in parts, the Note Air 3 is ultimately a likeable and supremely flexible and ...

Omaha’s Cursive are releasing a new album, Devourer, on September 13 via Run For Cover, their first for the label. Now they ...