Loosen your grip. “Penmanship is something of a lost art,” but if you have the pen in a “death grip,” you’ll never learn. A tight hold makes handwriting “smaller and harder to read.” Don’t get loopy.

Few report cards these days include a line to mark achievement in an age-old skill that our parents and grandparents toiled over in school. Even when I was a kid, a good grade in penmanship or ...

WASHINGTONVILLE - Keyboarding vs. cursive writing. Welcome to the new generational divide. For many young people raised in the Internet age, script or cursive lettering has become almost as ...

Remember how frustrating those penmanship lessons were back in elementary school? That struggle to make all those graceful little loops and connect one letter to the next? Well, writing in cursive is ...

Like many children her age, 7-year-old Anaya Ellick loves reading, drawing, and writing. She spends hours drawing and working on her handwriting. All that practice paid off — she won a national ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WVEC) -- A first grader from Greenbrier Christian Academy, who was born without hands, has won the Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellence in Manuscript Penmanship. "Out of this ...

"If your handwriting is barely legible, it makes them think that you are not really an organized person." - Adam, 17 years old When teens have something to write, that message is likely to be composed ...

Anaya Ellick accepted an award Wednesday for her penmanship skilled, and she was born without hands. At just 9-years-old nothing stops, Anaya. She won the 2018 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting ...

TRYING TO WRITE a note by hand after years of typing on a physical keyboard or smartphone screen can be discouraging. Often, the spastic result only vaguely resembles penmanship. Thankfully, though, ...