handwriting
Sign in to savethumb|Jaruu|Handwriting in Italian schools (20th–21st century) Handwriting is the personal and unique style of writing with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil in the hand. Handwriting includes both block and cursive styles and is separate from generic and formal handwriting script/style, calligraphy or typeface. Because each person's handwriting is unique and different, it can be used to verify a document's writer. The deterioration of a person's handwriting is also a symptom or result of several different diseases. The inability to produce clear and coherent handwriting is also kno
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11 sectionsContents
- Uniqueness
- Medical conditions
- Graphology
- Handwriting recognition
- Pedagogy
- Significance in education
- Cognitive processes in writers
- Phenomenology
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Jaruu|Handwriting in Italian schools (20th–21st century) Handwriting is the personal and unique style of writing with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil in the hand. Handwriting includes both block and cursive styles and is separate from generic and formal handwriting script/style, calligraphy or typeface. Because each person's handwriting is unique and different, it can be used to verify a document's writer. The deterioration of a person's handwriting is also a symptom or result of several different diseases. The inability to produce clear and coherent handwriting is also known as dysgraphia.
==Uniqueness== Each person has their own unique style of handwriting, whether it be everyday handwriting or their personal signature. Cultural environment and the characteristics of the written form of the first language that one learns to write are the primary influences on the development of one's own unique handwriting style. Even identical twins who share appearance and genetics do not have the same handwriting.