CLICK HERE for the World Handwriting Contest.
"Ma Fin Est Mon Commencement" on electronic instruments (Kate's MIDI sequencing of MA FIN EST MON COMMENCEMENT by Renaissance composer Guillaume Machaut)
World Handwriting Contest (WHC) — entries accepted January 1 through June 30.
The contest for 2007 has found its WINNERS!
CLICK HERE to learn details and see the WINNING SAMPLES from the 2007 contest.
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 new handwriting. 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 about the 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,
Carmen"
To buy Handwriting Repair [tm] handwriting improvement sessions:
1. individual sessions via eBay — CLICK HERE
2. individual sessions via PayPal ($50 for first session, $75 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.
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.
(How does Italic handwriting compare with conventional cursive? CLICK HERE to take a look and vote in eBay's Matchup survey of handwriting.)
Handwriting Repair reaches worldwide with a customized, caring, fun, and user-friendly program for improving handwriting legibility at real-world speeds. I can repair your handwriting at my site, travel to your site (anywhere in the world), or work with you by snailmail or e-mail.
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.)
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