Ways to Improve Handwriting Skills

1. Ways to Improve Handwriting Skills Good Day!!

2. Believe it or not, you can alter or change the way you write! It just takes some effort and time.

3. Legible means able to be read or understood.

4. If your essay looks messy, • Chances are the readers will have a negative first impression of your writing and thus deduct points. • Chances are they may not even bother to read it. ********************************* • Beautiful or even just nice handwriting is an easy way to sell your writing sample and earn points.

5. How many words should be written on each line? • “Seven – Eleven” rule, Each line should contain anywhere from seven to eleven words. If you consistently have less than seven words, you are writing too big. If you consistently have more than eleven words, you are writing too small. Investigate one of your writing samples and make necessary adjustments or changes

6. When printing, you should not slant your letters.No -- I love rap music.Yes -- I love rap music.

7. If you are writing in cursive, then you must slant your letters slightly to the right. • I love rap music.

8. Regardless of writing style, upper case letters occupy the entire space.

9. Regardless of writing style, lower case letters usually occupy half the space (I.e., most of the time). d

10. Regardless of writing style, numbers occupy the entire space.

11. If an application or form requires you to print, then write your letters in manuscript.

12. If someone asks for your signature, write your name in cursive. These are the little things in life that actually make a difference.Jose J. Gonzalez Jr.

13. The correct way to fix an error (in ink) is to simple draw a line through your mistake (e.g., It shouldn’t bee be there). This correction procedure is referred to as author’s line.