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Thanks for visiting!
Kate.

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(WHC) entries accepted January 1 through June 30.

The contest for 2010 has now been judged.

CLICK HERE to learn details and see the WINNING SAMPLES from the 2010contest.

If "handwriting can't matter" in the Cyber Age ...

... why does the SAT exam now include a timed, handwritten essay?

... why do most employers still require applicants to complete one or
more forms by hand?

... why do hundreds of blog entries and Twitter posts daily describe the
blogger's or poster's poor handwriting or complain about the poor handwriting of others?

Computers will never completely replace other writing tools -- not unless someone can invent a computer the size of a pencil or pen, costing the same as a pencil or pen, and needing no electric power supply.

(After Hurricane Katrina, millions of teachers and students who had supposed that "handwriting can't matter" learned otherwise when they had to spend a school year without computers.)

Computers and cell-phones haven't eliminated handwriting they have merely tempted people to stop teaching and learning the subject. This is changing, though -- thanks, ironically, to computer software.

As millions of schoolchildren head back to the classrooms, Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works is orchestrating the release of a startling new iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch application that will forever change the way the world thinks about teaching, learning, and using handwriting.

Songs of pendom

Click here to buy SONGS OF PENDOM, a book of handwriting-related lyrics by me, singable to popular tunes.

Want to improve your handwriting?

My Youtube Video

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[tm] handwriting improvement sessions.

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Learn about this flexible handwriting curriculum for adults, created by
my colleague Nan Barchowsky! Click this text or the above picture to
send Nan an e-mail asking for more information. You will have space to
add your own contact-information before you click SEND on that e-mail.

samples written by Kelly D. of Escalon, California

Notes Kelly:

"Ever since I repaired my handwriting under your guidance, I've been getting rave reviews about the appearance of my writing, but the biggest benefit for me has been regaining the ability to write without pain. The beauty of the writing is a wonderful bonus!

samples written by Carmen P. of Avellino, Italy.

Carmen comments:

"Dear Kate,

I attach a sample of my newhandwriting. It improved so much in such a little time! I still have a lot to do but with these results I have solved half of my problems.

It's such a pleasure to have a good handwriting, you want to do nothing but writing. Before this I hated to write, I used pc even for my shopping list.

Thanks a lot for your advice, it really worked. Regarding the lessons, later on I will take at least another one ... During these days I thought a lot aboutthe importance of the handwriting. A bad handwriting can restrict you in many ways. How many letters I didn't send and what a shame when friends or teachers can't read what you wrote!

Before coming across your website I was sure that handwriting is like the color of your eyes, something you just can't change. How foolish I was!

Thanks a lot for your work.

Love,
Carmenp>

To buy Handwriting
Repair [tm] handwriting
improvement sessions:

1. individual sessions via eBay
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2. individual
sessions
via
PayPal
($75 for first session, $50 for subsequent sessions)

PayPal me
(handwritingrepair@gmail.com) the
fee for that session, then send me an e-mail with a sample of your handwriting and any
information you would like me to have about yourself and about what has
influenced your handwriting so far. Within a week, I will e-mail your Handwriting
Repair[tm] lesson, customized to meet your scribal needs.

3. other
arrangements
for
individual
sessions
--

if options
1 and 2 do not meet your
needs, please contact me via e-mail to set up a different price
schedule, an in-person session[s], or other custom arrangements.

It
worked for these doctors ...

it can
work for you!

CLICK
HERE to see how one man repaired his handwriting, step by step ...

 

"So ... what can Handwriting Repair do for me?"

Handwriting Repair
makes your handwriting into GRAND writing:
user-friendly, readable at speed, and totally awesome!

Handwriting Repair achieves
this
with
a
no-frills
writing
model
that
reaches
back
to
the
very
first
handwriting
textbooks
of
Western
Europe,
which
used
a
style
some
call
"Italic"
from its origin in Renaissance Italy.

Handwriting
Repair, founded by a member
of the Society for Italic
Handwriting (the SIH), reaches worldwide with a customized, caring,
fun, and user-friendly program for improving handwriting.

I
developed Handwriting
Repair because ...

I grew
up with several neurological disorders that made it difficult for me to
write quickly or legibly by hand. I worked hard on handwriting at
school, but for me it remained painful, slow, and illegible:
"user-hostile."

To
find a way out. I dug through all available research on the history and
ergonomics of our handwriting: how it has developed, and where things
have gone wrong. You can benefit from the results today.

At
work, at home, at school -- how people evaluate you can depend on your
handwriting. For instance, many high-stakes exams (such as the SAT examination,
city-wide/state-wide educational achievement and competency tests, and
other standardized tests) now include or soon will include handwritten
essay sections. (The SAT exam,
widely
taken
by
college-bound
high-school
students
in
the
USA,
adds
a
handwritten
essay
section beginning in March of 2005. Students will have 25
minutes to write two pages on an assigned topic. Graders will have two
minutes to read and score each essay, working from scans of each
student's handwriting. The Educational
Testing
Service,
which
creates
and
administers
the
SAT, will then
make these scanned handwritten essays available to college admissions
officers for use as part of their decision-making on student
applications.)

From
another side of college life comes further evidence of the power of the
pen. According
to
this
DALLAS
MORNING
NEWS
story,
savvy
college
coaches
recruiting
for
football
teams
have
found
that
the
old-fashioned
handwritten
note
gets
much
more
attention
than
form letters - even from high schoolers.
Says reporter Tim McMahon, "Handwritten notes are signs of respect to
recruits, proof that college coaches consider them worth spending a few
minutes with pen in hand."

(Less
creditably, "a few minutes with pen in hand" paid off undeservedly well
for one student at a Washington, DC high school when college
application time came around. Reports
NEWSWEEK, senior-year students who worried about their uncertain
handwriting skills each paid $5 to this sure-handed classmate to write
their names and addresses on college application forms: a sad
reflection on the morals of that skillful student scribe -- and an
equally sad commentary on an educational system that has let numbers of
students head for college without learning, somewhere along the line,
to write a few lines competently by hand.)

If
"keyboard
in
hand"
gives
you
less
trouble
than
"pen
in
hand"
at
present
...

CLICK HERE for Handwriting Repair (tm) sessions on
eBay!

Handwriting Quotations

"Handwriting is civilization's casual
encephalogram."

-- Lance Morrow

"You may not be able to read a doctor's
handwriting and
prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten."

-- Earl
Wilson

" ... behold, the false pen of the scribes
hath written falsely."

The
Bible
, Jeremiah 8:8

"I have terrible handwriting. I now say it
is a learning disability
... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingerswith
a ruler because my handwriting was so bad."

-- attributed variously to Andrew Greeley
and Akhmed Zakayev

"Somehow I started
introducing handwriting
into my drawings, and after
a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with
the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting."

-- Patti
Smith

"I once did hold it, as our statists do,

A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much

How to forget that learning, but, sir, now

It did me yeoman's service."

 --William
Shakespeare, HAMLET, Act 5, Scene 2

"Here is a golden Rule. ... Write legibly.
The average temper of the
human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this
Rule!"

-- Lewis
Carroll
(Charles
Lutwidge
Dodgson) in “Eight or Nine Wise
Words About Letter-Writing” reprinted in The
Letters
of
Lewis
Carroll:
,
vol. II, ed. Morton N. Cohen, Oxford University Press (1979).

"I do not know whence I got the notion
that good handwriting was not
a necessary part of education, but I retained it until I went to
England. When later, especially in South Africa, I saw the beautifu
handwriting of lawyers and young men born and educated in South Africa,
I was ashamed of myself and repented of my neglect. I saw that bad
handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education." --
Mahatma
Gandhi, Gandhi
An
Autobiography:
The
Story
of
My
Experiments
With
Truth

" ...But the effort that cost her [Eliza
Dolittle] the deepest
humiliation was a request to
Higgins, whose pet artistic fancy, next to Milton's verse, was
caligraphy[sic], and who
himself wrote a most beautiful Italian hand, that
he would teach her to write. He declared that she was congenitally
incapable of forming a single letter worthy of the least of Milton's
words; but she persisted; and again he suddenly threw himself into the
task of teaching her with a combination of stormy intensity,
concentrated patience, and occasional bursts of interesting
disquisition on the beauty and nobility, the august mission and
destiny, of human handwriting. Eliza ended by acquiring an extremely
uncommercial script which was a positive extension of her personal
beauty ... "

-- George Bernard
Shaw in his Afterword to PYGMALION ("Sequel: What
Happened Afterwards")

"When Fred went to the office the next
morning, there was a test
to be
gone through which he was not prepared for.

Now Fred," said Caleb,
"you will have some desk-work. ... . How are you at writing and
arithmetic?"

Fred felt an awkward movement of the heart; he had not
thought of desk-work; but he was in a resolute mood, and not going to
shrink. "I'm not afraid of arithmetic, Mr. Garth: it always came easily
to me. I think you know my writing."

"Let us see," said Caleb, taking
up a pen, examining it carefully and handing it, well dipped, to Fred
with a sheet of ruled paper. "Copy me a line or two of that valuation,
with the figures at the end."

At that time the opinion existed that it
was beneath a gentleman to write legibly, or with a hand in the least
suitable to a clerk. Fred wrote the lines demanded in a hand as
gentlemanly as that of any viscount or bishop of the day: the vowels
were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up or
down, the strokes had a blotted solidity and the letters disdained to
keep the line-- in short, it was a manuscript of that venerable kind
easy to interpret when you know beforehand what the writer means.

As
Caleb looked on, his visage showed a growing depression, but when Fred
handed him the paper he gave something like a snarl, and rapped the
paper passionately with the back of his hand. Bad work like this
dispelled all Caleb's mildness.

"The deuce!" he exclaimed, snarlingly.
"To think that this is a country where a man's education may cost
hundreds and hundreds, and it turns you out this!" Then in a more
pathetic tone, pushing up his spectacles and looking at the unfortunate
scribe, "The Lord have mercy on us, Fred, I can't put up with this!"

"What can I do, Mr. Garth?" said Fred, whose spirits had sunk very low,
not only at the estimate of his handwriting, but at the vision of
himself as liable to be ranked with office clerks.

 "Do? Why, you must
learn to form your letters and keep the line. What's the use of writing
at all if nobody can understand it?" asked Caleb, energetically, quite
preoccupied with the bad quality of the work. "Is there so little
business in the world that you must be sending puzzles over the
country? But that's the way people are brought up. I should lose no end
of time with the letters some people send me, if Susan did not make
them out for me. It's disgusting." Here Caleb tossed the paper from
him.

... "I am very sorry," were all the words that [Fred] could
muster. But Mr. Garth was already relenting. "We must make the best of
it, Fred," he began, with a return to his usual quiet tone. "Every man
can learn to write. I taught myself. Go at it with a will, and sit up
at night if the day-time isn't enough. ... "

 -- George
Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH