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Improve Your Handwriting: A Comprehensive Online Course
Your handwriting is a means by which you communicate to the world. Whether it’s through a hand-written thank you message or business meeting notes, you’re bound to use handwriting in everyday life. Dissatisfaction with your handwriting can be very stressful and frustrating! Don’t worry, though: with some practice, patience, and perseverance, you absolutely can develop a handwriting style that you’re proud of.
The goal of this course isn’t to completely change your handwriting. After all, your handwriting correlates to your personality! This course will, however, teach you how to create legible, consistent, and flowing handwriting that accurately represents you.
My advice is to pay careful attention to the videos and the worksheet exercises. Sometime exercises may seem elementary — but don’t skip them! It’s the simple exercises that will pack the biggest punch and help you to see a difference in your control of a pen. The single most important thing is not to get frustrated. If you find yourself feeling down about your progress, call it a day and return to the course tomorrow with a fresh outlook!
Start by downloading the course worksheet, which you can find in “Course Media”, right below this paragraph. For best results, I recommend printing the worksheet out on 32# laserjet paper, but any printer paper should work! Then, settle in with your favorite pen, and get ready to take some notes in Lesson 1.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Self-Diagnosis
In this lesson, we’re going to examine your current handwriting and evaluate its deficiencies. We’ll do this with the help of pages 1 and 2 of your worksheet set, so make sure you have them handy!
Lesson 2: Setting Yourself Up for Success
Now that you’ve diagnosed what your particular issues are, let’s talk about setting yourself up for writing success! In this lesson, we’ll discuss optimal writing conditions, examine the qualities of a good pen, and and talk about how to hold it. If you’re a lefty, there’s a special video here just for you!
Lesson 3: Exercises
At this point, you should have a good idea of what to write with, how to write, and what to work on. Now, we’re going to use that knowledge to complete some drills! While these drills may seem simple, their results are powerful. I urge you to complete all the drills: they are vital in strengthening your pen control!
Lesson 4: Improving Your Print
It’s important to be able to write in neat and legible print! We all use print writing for everyday tasks like filling out forms, and some people prefer to use print as their default handwriting. In this lesson, you’ll learn tips for improving your print, and you’ll practice using a few different exemplars.
Lesson 5: Improving Your Cursive
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to write in cursive neatly and comfortably! Among other things, you should try to pick up your pen every 3-4 letters and rotate your paper if you wish to achieve a nice right-leaning slant.
Lesson 6: Practice Suggestions + Handwriting Inspiration
We’ll begin the last lesson of the course with a few practice suggestions! Then, we’ll move on to observing others’ handwriting, which is one of the most effective ways to develop a handwriting style that suits you. (Remember, handwriting is a patchwork of letters that you’ve seen before and admire.) We’ll start with print examples and make our way to cursive!