Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...

A custodian of tradition: Handwriting, once so ordinary it scarcely merited thought, is now framed as an act of intention. To write by hand is to slow the pace, to weigh words more carefully, to leave ...

Most of us can remember this pivotal point in life: at some point in school, we all switched from writing with pencils to a pen. Before you were allowed to write with pens, doing so was almost an act ...

Time was when we elders wrote our letters and other correspondence using pen and paper and sent them across through the post office. Today, other than sending greeting cards by post, we have even ...