Prone to errors, handwriting required more time and a stronger connection to the text to complete an essay. Penmanship mattered, either: Depending on its legibility, handwriting could influence a ...

That’s why I still take notes in a notebook even though I can hardly read my chicken scratch. Yet earlier this month, the same academic journal published a scathing rebuttal to the handwriting study.

When I raise my personal barrier to entry, “You can change your handwriting,” Syme assures me. And with a new pen in hand, after just a weekend of doodling the quick brown fox… and sending ...

“For some students, it’s a great alternative to printing, and it helps them be more accurate and more careful with the writing,” Erica Ingber, principal of Longfellow Elementary School in ...