In years gone by, it helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate. But now, in the digital age, people are increasingly communicating by computer and smartphone. No handwritten signature ...

This column has often mentioned the Dakota Business College in Fargo, its penmanship classes and the Watkins family that operated the school. Here’s a note from Lee Watkins, Fargo. His grandfather, F.

Cursive is fading, but advocates say it conveys intelligence, engages creativity COLUMBUS, Ohio – The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep ...

The marvelous penmanship of both F. Leland Watkins and his son F. Leland Jr., of the Dakota Business College, Fargo, continues to bring comments to Neighbors. And in one case, a copy of a drawing by ...

The educational company Zaner-Bloser hosts an annual national handwriting contest. Each year one winner is chosen from kindergarten through 8th grade. Winners receive a $500 cash prize, a trophy, and ...

There are exceptions, but here is the rule: Boys are graphologically challenged. That males have many more problems with penmanship than females is “not even a question,” according to University of ...

The question facing Dr. Paul Hackmeyer was this: How could he convince his hospital’s doctors that their penmanship ranked right up there with hieroglyphics? Doctors’ handwriting is, of course, one of ...

In 1972, Steve Jobs took a calligraphy class at Reed College guided by campus posters he saw after leaving school. The fonts on the posters themselves were artistic enough to get his attention, and he ...