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2. Palmer Method - Wikipedia

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   The Palmer Method of penmanship instruction was developed and promoted by Austin Palmer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was intended to simplify the earlier "Spencerian method", which had been the main handwriting learning method since the 1840s. [1] The Palmer Method soon became the most popular handwriting system in the United ...

3. D'Nealian - Wikipedia

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   D'Nealian. The D'Nealian Method (sometimes misspelled Denealian) is a style of writing and teaching handwriting based on Latin script which was developed between 1965 and 1978 by Donald N. Thurber (1927–2020) in Michigan, United States. Building on his experience as a primary school teacher, Thurber aimed to make the transition from print ...

4. Zaner-Bloser (teaching script) - Wikipedia

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   Script sample. The Zaner-Bloser (also Zaner-Bloser Method) is a teaching script for handwriting based on Latin script as well as a system of penmanship instruction, which originated around 1904 at the Zanerian College of Penmanship in Columbus, Ohio. Charles P. Zaner (1864–1918) and Elmer W. Bloser (1865–1929), originally a Spencerian ...

5. Victorian letter writing guides - Wikipedia

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   Children were taught the art of letter-writing, as well; they were particularly taught to form letters neatly with instructive books filled with drawing and line instruction. One of these such books, “ Elementary Drawing Copy Books ,” incorporated traditional alphabet practice with instructions on drawing elements of the natural world. [14]

6. Letter (message) - Wikipedia

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   A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. [1] Something epistolary means that it is a form of letter writing. The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by large numbers of people, such as newspapers and placards, although even these may ...

7. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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   Initial Teaching Alphabet. The Initial Teaching Alphabet ( I.T.A. or i.t.a.) is a variant of the Latin alphabet developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of a system of shorthand) in the early 1960s. It was not intended to be a strictly phonetic transcription of English sounds, or a spelling reform for English as ...

8. Cursive - Wikipedia

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   Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined and/or flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster. . This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnected and in Roman/Gothic letterform rather than joined-up scri

9. Shakespeare's handwriting - Wikipedia

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   Shakespeare's handwriting. William Shakespeare 's will, written in a style of handwriting known as the secretary hand. William Shakespeare 's handwriting is known from six surviving signatures, all of which appear on legal documents. It is believed by many scholars that the three pages of the handwritten manuscript of the play Sir Thomas More ...