wolf_shadow | Mar. 15th, 2006

From Rocky Mountain News: Rewriting handwriting.

"We have a national affliction, and it's called cacography — that means ‘illegible handwriting,' " says Barbara Getty, handwriting expert, former elementary-school teacher and co-creator of a method she believes can solve the problem. "That's why we're a ‘Please print'nation. Nobody says, ‘Please write in your lovely cursive handwriting.'"

At a time when the computer is king and toddlers type, some educators believe it's even more imperative to teach a speedy handwriting technique that others can read.

Enter italic, a zippy hybrid of print and cursive that Getty and fellow Oregon calligrapher Inga Dubay consider a simple, elegant solution to the massive modern handwriting malaise.

"There are people who do the various italic methods, and they're not very fond of people saying that the only way to do it is to go from print to cursive," says Kate Gladstone, a handwriting specialist in Albany, N.Y., who teaches people how to go from lousy to legible. "We don't want it to take forever and look like something that crawled out of the - 19th century. Most of the handwriting programs out there make life terrible." [continue]

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