The consumer interest in well-crafted handwriting tools in Japan bespeaks a worldwide turn, or return, to old-fashioned pen ...

Writing by hand also improves memory and recall of words, laying down the foundations of literacy and learning. In adults, taking notes by hand during a lecture, instead of typing, can lead to ...

Her work has also shown that handwriting improves letter recognition in preschool children, and the effects of learning through writing “last longer than other learning experiences that might ...

Reports indicate people are writing by hand less and less, so if you find yourself struggling to recall your friends’ or classmates’ script, you are far from alone. Our need for handwriting has ...

In a digital age, learning cursive and writing by hand could easily become obsolete. New evidence-based research illuminates why it's important for us to keep writing by hand.

While I confess a love for many of the trappings of modernity, my inner Edith Wharton longs for the simple pleasures of a 19th-century life. I daydream of sitting in the parlor writing letters to ...

The recognition-production connection. Writing by hand creates a powerful neural bridge between letter recognition and production systems in the brain that typing cannot replicate. When ...

WHEN I was at university my dad wrote me the occasional letter. They were quite short, and generally just accounts of a ...

He also recognized the importance of clear penmanship. In a letter to his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the Sage of Monticello advised: “Take pains to write a neat, round, plain hand, and you ...

Writing by hand is usually a lot slower, but has some real benefits, van der Meer told NPR. If you're good at typing, you can basically transcribe a conversation, but often you hear the words ...