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 ...

Browsing a folder in which some first-grade elementary school report cards were stored, I noticed receiving an “A” for an activity seldom offered today: penmanship. Teachers instilled pride in ...

Thanks to the training they received at Fargo's old Dakota Business College, many students learned the art of penmanship. Some of them also found out something else at the college, out on its fire ...

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 ...

New Jersey students in the third, fourth and fifth grade will be required to learn cursive writing due to a bill signed by departing Gov. Phil Murphy.

Art in the Loft in Alpena will be hosting The Art of Modern Calligraphy class on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. Calligraphy is an art form that brings awareness to detail with intentionality, ...