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Note Taking Handwriting vs Typing

By Midnight Indigo Leave a Comment | Last Updated October 28, 2020

Handwriting vs Typing

Today with the ever-increasing use of technology such as tablets, smartphones, and laptops people are writing a lot less than ever before.  But is it better to handwrite notes or type them on a laptop?

An increasing number of school’s colleges and universities are allowing students to have a laptop in the classroom or during lectures to take notes with.

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Filed Under: General Interest Tagged With: handwriting, Typing


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Is Handwriting Really Obsolete?

By Tony Bridges 2 Comments | Last Updated February 29, 2020

Handwriting Sample Text

There has been much written in the media over the last several months about the supposed death of handwriting, with some writers gladly bidding goodbye to cursive.

Which is all very funny, given the results of a new study coming out of the University of Washington. Perhaps you’ve heard. Researchers found that children wrote faster and wrote more when composing essays with pen and paper than when using keyboards. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Interest Tagged With: handwriting


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Do Fountain Pens Improve Children’s Handwriting?

By Tony Bridges 4 Comments | Last Updated April 16, 2020

Do Fountain Pens Improve Childrens Handwriting

In the right hands, fountain pens produce some beautiful lettering, so it stands to reason that giving your child a fountain pen might be the right way to neaten the little one’s Ps and Qs. But can using a fountain pen really improve your children’s handwriting?

It very well might be the case and there is at least one Junior School that is convinced of the benefits of introducing children to fountain pens at a very young age. Also when it comes to doing exams if your child has neat legible handwriting then this can only be a good thing in the eyes of an examiner. They must get very frustrated trying to decipher something resembling spiders crawl when they have hundreds of papers to mark.

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Filed Under: News & Info Tagged With: fountain pens, handwriting


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