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There is no dearth of free advice on the Internet on how to get better handwriting or how to improve handwriting.<\/p>\n
The nuggets of information available on some websites are pretty basic and their recommendations on how to get better handwriting usually range from ‘pick up a pen that suits you’ to ‘make sure you get your posture right’.<\/p>\n
What surprises me is that some of the suggestions offered in the name of improving handwriting are by people with little understanding of how handwriting works and what are the things to keep mind before changing it.<\/p>\n
Here are a couple of examples: A particular website<\/a> suggests ‘swapping your air guitar for an air pen’.<\/p>\n How on earth do you that? And has anyone willing to change his handwriting ever swapped an air guitar for an air pen?<\/p>\n I know I am taking things literally here. But my limited point is that this is not how handwriting works, and this is not how people change their handwriting.<\/p>\n Another run-of-the-mill suggestion on how to get better handwriting was given in an article on Buzzfeed<\/a>. It recommends people to ‘mimic handwriting on Instagram accounts’.<\/p>\n Yes, there is no doubt that visually, the Instagram handwriting example looks “perfect”. (See below)<\/p>\n View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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