There is an opinion that it changes over the years, and the dominance of computers freed people from the need to write something down manually. However, you can always get into a mess and cause bewilderment among the interlocutors who have become unwitting witnesses of taking notes of any information. Therefore, it is possible and necessary to work on improving handwriting, and how will be described in this article.
How to improve handwriting as an adult?
It will take time to become a first-grader again and turn to the material already covered - copybooks. And let each person write in his own way, there is a very specific way of writing each letter. You should re-learn them and start training at least a couple of hours a day. This option can be especially recommended to those whose handwriting is often compared with the handwriting of doctors, in whom, as you know, it is impossible to make out a single letter. If a person is generally satisfied with the technique of writing, but wants to correct only certain points, it is necessary to focus on them.
For example, you can correct a strong slope if you try to write straight, and vice versa. If the written lines always strive to go up or down, then this is easy to fix by practicing in a special notebook in a ruler. In addition, anyone who is interested in how to improve an adult's handwriting should pay attention to how he holds a pen. Its end should look to the right shoulder. If desired, special nozzles can be purchased at any office supply store. It is necessary to hold the pen at a distance of 1/3 of the length from the writing edge. The pencil is clamped between the thumb and forefinger, while its first lower half rests on the middle finger, and the second on the joint of the index finger. Do not grip the writing instrument too tightly or too loosely.
How to improve your handwriting - exercises
There are special trainings that will improve the quality of your calligraphy, here they are:
other methods For writing, it is worth using a variety of accessories and paper, because they largely determine its quality. Having practiced enough in writing, you can move on to writing whole sentences. There are many pangrams - sentences in which all the letters of the alphabet are present. By rewriting them over and over again, you can improve your calligraphy, for example, this sentence: “A South Ethiopian rook led a mouse by its trunk to a lizard convention.”
Those who ask how to quickly improve handwriting can be advised to look for examples of famous people's manuscripts or ask someone close to you with good handwriting to jot down a couple of paragraphs of any text on a piece of paper. By copying this style of writing, you can develop your new handwriting, which will be many times better than the previous one. The main thing is not to rush and train carefully and measuredly, trying to work on a variety of paper and a variety of writing instruments - gel and ballpoint pens, pencils and even a pen. It is very useful to draw. All this will help to “remember” how it was at school and correct the already established style of writing for the better.
Why do you need beautiful handwriting? Maybe at work you need to write beautifully and legibly. Well, for example, to compose letters for business leaders. Or sign greeting cards for various holidays. Another beautiful neat handwriting may be needed for engineering workers to fill out drawings and technical documentation. In this case, the fill rules themselves require the use of a particular font. There can be many reasons, up to a simple aesthetic desire to write beautifully, and not scribble in any situation.
When asked how to develop a beautiful handwriting, the answer is unequivocal: you need to work on improving it. Painstakingly, diligently, for a long time. First of all, you need to write and write, practice a lot. At the same time, it is not chaotic, but according to certain examples. You will need a thick notebook, a pen with spare rods. It is best to take a notebook in a cage. This will help you write smoothly and with the same letters. It is also desirable for clarity to get examples of various fonts.
You need to start by writing each letter separately, several times. One letter must fit in one cell. You can try different fonts. After trying different fonts, you can choose the one that you like best or that will turn out better. After practicing with individual letters, you should take any book, fiction or science, and begin to rewrite the text from it in a new handwriting. If there are professional texts to record, this is even better. In this case, the training of one's handwriting and the performance of work will take place simultaneously. You need to try to write evenly, cell to cell, carefully connecting the letters to each other.
At first, it can be hard: the hand and fingers may get tired, the letters may not turn out as we would like, the text will float along the lines. You have to try and keep working. In this way, you can correct ugly handwriting and develop a new one.
A good option for developing beautiful handwriting can be using a drawing font. After adaptation to a specific hand, such handwriting becomes neat and beautiful. To do this, you need to take some kind of drawing, in the drawing header there are signatures and various text marks. First, individual letters are trained, and then words and sentences. In a draft font, letters usually do not connect with each other. And in the handwritten text they need to be connected. Therefore, the original version of the handwriting will turn out, but at the same time the beauty of the letters and the accuracy of writing will be preserved.
If it is necessary to develop a beautiful handwriting not for an adult, but for a child, then everything is a little easier. Essentially, the same thing happens. The child learns to write letters, then links letters into syllables, syllables into words, and so on. Parents or educator need to ensure that the child tries to write smoothly and correctly. There should be no shirking and negligence. Because the foundations are being laid now. Further, the handwriting will remain the same as it was developed from the very beginning. After all, changing handwriting will be more difficult than initially developing it beautiful. It is technically not difficult to develop a beautiful handwriting. All that is needed is samples and persistent practice.
Handwriting, like the ability to draw, is a kind of art. Often a person cannot understand their own handwriting, for example, when dictating quickly. Today, correct and understandable writing fades into the background, giving way to electronic documents. But there are situations when written speech should be clear and legible. How to fix handwriting and make it beautiful, this article will tell.
Examples
How to achieve beautiful handwriting
Handwriting refers to talents, because it is directly related to hands. Beautiful writing is a kind of art of drawing. Not so long ago, there was a special subject in schools aimed at the formation of a clear and beautiful handwriting. It was called calligraphy.
Today, schoolchildren are no longer forced to write pages with one hook in order to bring writing to the ideal. The program is aimed at mastering writing skills. At the same time, the last roles are assigned to the beauty and accuracy of handwriting.
But if parents and teachers monitor children and the formation of their handwriting, then how can an adult learn to write clearly and correctly? In case an adult wants to correct or change handwriting, there are some useful tips.
Choosing a writing instrument
A comfortable writing instrument is the key to beautiful handwriting. It doesn't matter if it's a pen or a pencil. It is important that the writing instrument lies comfortably in the hand and allows you to use it without straining your hand.
Landing while writing
Proper fit when working with a letter helps not to feel discomfort. The back should be kept straight, and the sheet on which the text is written should be placed at a convenient angle for writing.
Recipe
The main advice for improving handwriting is to re-write assignments in school copybooks. They will help you remember the correct spelling of the connections between letters and practice practicing them.
Practice
When developing a handwriting style, it is important to remember that constant practice will allow you to better remember the correct spelling of all letter elements. It is important to try to write more often and carefully monitor the performance of writing. For example, if writing a separate element of a letter or a connection is not possible, it is worth writing it out on a separate sheet and prescribing it until a satisfactory result is obtained.
deliberation
Don't expect handwriting to improve after an hour of writing. When working on handwriting, it is important to do the work thoughtfully and slowly. If you do not like the result, it is worth working on it again and comparing it with what it was before. Progress in work can come both in a week and in a few months.
Fantasy and fonts
When working on writing, you should connect your imagination or take your favorite capital fonts on a computer as a sample. On special sites, there are a lot of pictures with capital letters. On the Internet, you can find an image with your favorite font. Perhaps the idea of complementing your own writing style with long strokes or graceful curls will help when working on the beauty and style of handwriting.
Change of writing instrument
After mastering one tool, it is worth trying other devices. If you used a ballpoint pen, you should practice with a marker or fountain pen. This is important so that the developed handwriting does not change when using tools that are different in their configuration. In this way, you can adjust the pressure on the paper and the comfortable grip for each type of pen or pencil.
Writing a foreign alphabet
Mastering capital foreign letters helps when making edits to your own handwriting. It’s worth starting with the basics - the English alphabet, written in beautiful handwriting, looks quite similar to Russian, which helps in working through problem areas at the associative level.
With the help of these simple tips, you can completely change your handwriting, making it calligraphic. However, the correct handwriting for school is not always suitable for an adult.
The handwriting of an adult bears the imprint of personality and its uniqueness.
Hello dear readers! I received similar requests from different mothers: they asked me to tell you how to teach a child to write in beautiful handwriting.
Their children, of course, are in elementary school, and not all of them can write well and beautifully. It is also typical of those who write little or who naturally have chicken paw handwriting. Either way, we'll fix it!
In this article, I will tell everyone who is interested in how to write in beautiful handwriting.
It is more useful for children to train in special prescriptions, and for adults, an ordinary notebook in a ruler is enough. Read about how to improve your handwriting and practice! I will be glad to receive feedback!
Who will make sure that the child writes beautifully, quickly and competently?
Learning to write is more difficult than learning to read.
I’ll make a reservation right away: by the ability to write, I don’t mean the folding of individual words from Zaitsev’s cubes. We are talking, firstly, about developing a fast, beautiful, legible and competent handwriting, and secondly, about computer typing with a blind ten-finger method.
I deliberately used here an unusual phrase - "literate handwriting" - in order to emphasize that literacy is not theoretical knowledge, but a motor skill that should be instilled not in the head, but in the hand. But we will still have the opportunity to talk about literacy in more detail, and now another question is on the agenda: “Who, in general, should teach our children to write?”
Let's see for a start: what can the methods of early development that are now fashionable offer us?
It turns out, absolutely nothing. Lena Danilova, one of the leading experts in the field of early development, writes the following on this subject.
It has been noticed that children who learned to write early, once in school, write disgustingly. Primary school teachers tell parents year after year not to write with their children at preschool age. And in this they are, unfortunately, right.
Children, having learned to write at an early age, quickly spoil the handwriting due to the fact that the hand has not yet settled down. Even if the letters turn out beautiful from the very beginning, it is impossible to consolidate good handwriting as a skill because of the unreality of daily intensive activities with the baby.
Teaching a child to write is very easy. You can teach to write at three, and at four, and at five. But to force a three-four-year-old baby to write for an hour a day, carefully following the correct image of each element of the letters, is not only pointless, but also cruel. And in another way to achieve the installation of good handwriting is impossible.
The child, having learned the written alphabet, begins to use it at his own discretion. It is no longer possible to stop or control this process. He writes whatever and, of course, how horrible. Handwriting, even if it was quite tolerable at the time of learning, quickly deteriorates and it is in this form that it is fixed as a skill.
To be honest, I did not expect such a frankly self-revealing confession from Lena Danilova. After all, it is almost directly stated here: “The sphere of early development includes only that which a child can learn playfully, without effort. And everything that requires persistent, systematic work from him is in the exclusive competence of the school.
Okay, let's go to school. How is writing taught there?
It should be noted that school methods for teaching writing have changed dramatically over the past half century. In the old days, they wrote with a pen or fountain pen, and younger students, as a rule, used the cheapest writing materials of very poor quality.
If you hold a bad fountain pen incorrectly, then it simply does not write and, moreover, quickly breaks. Therefore, school teachers, willy-nilly, had to monitor the correct setting of the hand of each of the students. The process of learning to write was a long one. It occupied the entire period of elementary school (three years), and until the children learned to write more or less tolerably, they were not too bothered with the rules of spelling.
Capital letters from school copybooks were then written more beautifully, but much more difficult. Yes, and the recipes themselves were arranged wrong. It was assumed that one copybook should serve several years for different students, so only samples for rewriting were given there, and writing should not be practiced in it, but in a separate notebook. Notebooks for the first class were also different - in a frequent oblique ruler, which greatly facilitated the writing of letters, serving as an additional "support" for them.
Since then, the quality of writing instruments and the quality of school teaching have changed significantly. The first is for the better, the second is for the worse. Now unpretentious ballpoint pens are in use, and teachers do not need to correctly put the hand of the students. After the transition to a simplified writing of letters, it became possible to significantly reduce the time for mastering calligraphy. Today, first-graders are already beginning to write dictations and cram spelling rules.
As for the modern prescriptions, they deserve a more lengthy commentary. All the absurdity of the school system received its complete incarnation in them. That's what I mean.
As you know, the school curriculum rules everything. For example, in the curriculum for mathematics on the topic “multiplication by a single digit”, a certain number of academic hours are allotted. The student who mastered this topic in the allotted time receives a five. A student who does not meet the allotted time receives a deuce. But both of them then move on to a new topic - "multiplication by a multi-digit number."
The same pedagogical principle now underlies the prescriptions for first graders. Here, for example, is a sample of writing the letter "a", and then there are three empty lined lines so that the child trains to write his own letter "a". Regardless of whether the child has learned to write the letter “a” or not, as soon as three lines end, he then moves on to the letter “b”.
It is likely that today's school methodologists believe that children are some kind of especially conscious kind of people. When the child notices that only three lines are allotted to him, he, of course, will write out the letter “a” with increased diligence - in order to have time to develop the appropriate motor skill, while there is still free space.
Poorly, in this case, school methodologists know child psychology. A normal, mentally healthy child will do exactly the opposite. If he has already received the task of writing three lines with the letter “a”, then he will do this not with maximum diligence, but with maximum speed.
No matter how creepy his scribbles look, he will no longer be forced to redo the carelessly done work - there is simply no physically room for this in his copybooks. Well, just think, tomorrow the teacher will say “ah-ah-ah” and shake her head. But now you can watch TV longer.
It is curious to note that grades are no longer given in the first grade of the school. Pupils begin to receive bad grades for poor handwriting only in the second grade, when all the copywriting classes are already far behind.
So, quickly filling in the empty lines in the copybooks, the children proceed to the study of spelling.
Hm... hm... Dear reader! Do you know what spelling is? I first encountered this word when I took my eldest son to first grade and looked into his textbooks to ask what he was doing there. It turns out that this is the central concept around which the study of the Russian language in the modern school has revolved for many years.
I then began to ask all my friends if they knew what spelling was. No, nobody knew. Then I turned to dictionaries. Sometimes the meaning of some unfamiliar Russian word is easiest to understand if you look at its translation into some foreign language.
So, if we turn, for example, to the Yandex dictionary, then in its English, French, Italian and Spanish parts, the combination of the letters "spelling" is perceived as a typo. And in the Russian part, this word is found only in a single source - in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. The following is written here.
Orthogram (from Greek orthós - correct and grámma - letter)
- a consistently reproduced way of conveying a phonomorphological phenomenon in writing in a particular language (...);
- Spelling according to the rules of spelling.
We must do justice to the school methodologists: they still instill in first-graders not the first of these definitions, but the second. So, in the textbook by A.V. Polyakova for the 1st grade of elementary school we read:
Spelling is the spelling of words according to certain rules. <Например,>a capital letter in the names, patronymics and surnames of people is a spelling.
Who understands what spelling is, raise your hand! I certainly won't raise my hand. It probably has something to do with my math education. I automatically do a substitution and get: A capital letter in the names, patronymics and surnames of people is the spelling of a word according to certain rules.
There is no more logic in this phrase than, for example, in this one: A staircase between two floors is the construction of a house according to certain rules.
Of course, some sense is intuitively guessed here, but what slovenliness of thought! what disrespect for the Russian language! In colloquial speech, such lapses, perhaps, are still acceptable, but the textbook for the first grade could have been written more correctly.
So, as soon as the empty lines in the copybooks end, calligraphy is considered a passed stage, and first-graders begin to master spelling. They are taught to look for spelling in words. For example, a child writes from dictation: "Masha has a notebook."
According to the plan of the school methodologists, he should say to himself: “Masha is the name of a person. This means that it is capitalized, because the capital letter in people's names is the spelling. At the end, Masha should have a letter and, because the letter and in the letter combinations zhi, shi is a spelling. The letter e in the word notebook is an unstressed vowel. So it's also a spelling.
You can't find the right word here. Such cases should be checked in a dictionary and memorized. At the end of the word, a notebook is heard t, but you need to write d, because you can pick up a test word - notebooks - and this is again a spelling.
Where can you keep track of the beauty of handwriting!
In short, the gloomy scenario with which Lena Danilova scares the parents of preschoolers is being fully implemented just at school. There are, however, two minor differences.
- Firstly, Lena Danilova suggests that, at least at first, the letters of preschoolers still turn out beautiful, but we cannot say this about schoolchildren.
- Secondly, according to Lena Danilova, preschoolers are accepted to write whatever and how horrible, realizing their own unbridled fantasies, while schoolchildren have to write under the strict supervision of teachers, embodying the miserable fantasies of the Methodists.
[Source: https://nekin.info/]No, I do not want to indiscriminately find fault with all the schools and all the teachers in a row. Surely, in our vast expanses there is such a teacher who really teaches to write beautifully and competently. However, alas, it is not necessary to seriously count on the fact that my child will get to him.
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Bad handwriting: how to teach a child to write beautifully?
How to teach a child to write neatly and beautifully without tears, sheets torn from notebooks and repeated rewriting?
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In today's world, more and more text is reproduced using electronic devices, so without proper training, handwriting becomes less accurate. And yet it also determines the impression of a person. How to learn to write beautifully so that those who read the message can not only admire the accuracy of the letters, but also be able to read the calligraphic lines?
It is not easy for an adult to change his formed handwriting. However, if you put in the effort, it's quite possible.
Preparation
Best Exercises
Fixing beautiful handwriting
There comes a moment when it becomes clear - the handwriting has become much better. And if you do not rush and try, then the lines are just a feast for the eyes. But here it is required to fill out some official paper and in a hurry, indistinct squiggles return again.
To prevent this from happening, the writing technique should be brought to automatism. And that means you have to practice, practice and practice again. Because learning to write beautifully always by doing only a series of exercises will not work.
When writing, be sure to follow the slope and direction of the letters. Merging signs is not allowed. It is important to be careful and not make mistakes so that the text is clean without strikethroughs.
When the letters start to turn out perfect, thoroughly similar to the patterns in the copybook, you can begin to move on to your own style. This should bring a lot of pleasure and also contribute to the consolidation of skills. Perhaps some letters will get playful ponytails, while others will now be underlined. The main thing is that they remain legible and aesthetic.
[Source: http://bodypluslife.ru]The drawing of the letters is quite . This activity is very calming and relaxing. And the slender and playful rows of neat letters are worth not being lazy and learning how to learn how to write beautifully.
What else is worth knowing?
The ability to write beautifully and legibly is called calligraphy (Greek calligraphy - “beautiful handwriting”). Calligraphy is one of the fine arts.
Bad and illegible handwriting is a disaster for both children and adults, but experts say that this is quite fixable. And even more than that, handwriting reflects the character and inner state of a person, which means that having achieved calligraphic handwriting, one should expect changes in oneself.
Writing not only competently, but also beautifully is a requirement of many employers. According to experts, people of creative professions, who have a sense of line, tend to calligraphic handwriting. Historians report that the Bible contributed to the development of calligraphy. It was necessary to create copies and lists of religious texts in large quantities, so the ability to write quickly, beautifully and competently developed rapidly.
To learn how to write beautifully, you need to stock up on a lot of patience, as this will not happen overnight. Even if you enroll in special calligraphy courses, you will need to constantly improve your skills.
Experts agree that the best way to learn how to write beautifully is through regular, mechanical training in the most common school copybooks. It is necessary to work out the spelling of all the letters of the alphabet in turn until you finally like their appearance.
Tatyana Leontyeva's technique
Talented Omsk teacher Tatyana Leontyeva has developed a unique and effective method of teaching calligraphy. Experts say that by practicing this technique for 10-20 hours, even a left-handed person will begin to write beautifully and legibly.
The essence of the technique is in special prescriptions. “My pupils correct their handwriting in a special copybook, with a special line that existed in elementary school before the 1968 reform. In the first week, we relearn how to write all the letters of the alphabet in this particular line. She quite strictly regulates the slope and width of the letters,” says Tatyana Leontyeva.
[Thus, in order to learn how to write beautifully, you need to purchase a regular school copybook and work out writing letters daily.
And is it possible at all, it is necessary to figure out what a certain style of writing depends on and what affects the formation of handwriting.
Why is handwriting ugly?
Many people at least once in their lives wondered why someone easily writes graceful and some, no matter how hard they try, still display illegible squiggles? Two factors influence the formation of handwriting: genetics and upbringing.
Undoubtedly, parents want their child to have an ideal writing style. So they do their best by trying different techniques on how to make beautiful handwriting. But do not forget that in addition to training programs, other factors also influence the style of writing - the physical and mental state of a person. For example, handwriting can change dramatically due to psychological trauma. But nevertheless, an organized person, regardless of situations, will always take care to write a beautiful and clear letter. Thus, handwriting reflects our inner state and also defines our character. Psychologists have found that teenagers who grew up in a warm atmosphere write clear, even letters, while their peers who are brought up in an unfavorable environment have an ugly, intermittent and angular handwriting.
The genetic factor is also important in shaping the manner of writing. Often members of the same family have a strong similarity in handwriting. Children on a subconscious, and perhaps conscious level, copy the manner of writing their parents. Therefore, adults should show by example how to write in beautiful handwriting to a child.
In addition, handwriting is affected by human anatomy, namely the bone structure of the hand - it depends on how he holds the pen. Hand-eye coordination and mental abilities also play an important role, so handwriting changes with age. It is worth noting that with age, it becomes more and more difficult to change the style of writing due to ingrained habit and muscle memory.
However, all these factors do not speak of a global genetic influence, so bad handwriting is not a sentence. There are a huge number of different exercises and techniques on how to learn beautiful handwriting.
What are the disadvantages of writing style?
How to make beautiful handwriting? Before proceeding to correct the manner of writing, it is necessary to analyze it, and only then proceed to special exercises.
On a blank sheet of paper, you need to write a few words and objectively evaluate their appearance. Possible disadvantages:
- The letters are too small or large, or different heights.
- The letters have a strong slope to the left or right, or no slope at all.
- The pressure is too strong or too weak.
- The connection between the letters is heterogeneous or non-existent.
- Certain letters are written inexpressively, some are completely unreadable.
After an objective analysis, depending on the existing problems, it is necessary to use certain methods for solving them.
Different letter heights
Learning to write letters of the same height and size will help a special student notebook - copybook. All pages are lined in it, and when writing, you will try not to go beyond these lines.
Adjusting the tilt of the letters
Notebooks in an oblique ruler will help solve problems with the inclination of letters. It is necessary to methodically work on writing letters and words with the correct slope. Graphologists say that people who write to the right have warmth and emotionality, and people who write letters with a slope to the left have pronounced coldness and restraint.
Pressure adjustment
In order to adjust the pressure, you need to learn how to control how you hold the handle. It is recommended to try not to put pressure on it and keep it at ease. How to make beautiful handwriting? The tilt of the neck, the position of the shoulders will also help to solve the problem, while the hands should be relaxed, and they should be placed on the table.
Connection of letters
If the connection of letters is non-uniform or absent, in such cases it is recommended to practice "unseparated writing". It consists in writing a combination of letters without tearing off the paper. To do this, you will need prescriptions for schoolchildren.
Learning to write individual letters
In this case, it is necessary to re-learn how to write letters, carefully writing all the elements from beginning to end. It is recommended to do this systematically, but without coercion. To achieve a stable result, in order to use mechanical memory, you should write individual letters and words over several pages.
You can also use some practical tips on how to make beautiful handwriting:
- You need to choose a handle that is comfortable to hold in your hand. At first, you can try writing large, sweeping letters with a pen in the air, as if you were writing on a blackboard. The exercise will help control the movement of the hands and make the letters more even.
- You can try to write several different types of letters, and choose the one that suits you best. To do this, you can pay attention to the writing style of other people (poets, philosophers, writers, or just your acquaintances). Determine the characteristic curls, outlines, slope, etc. This will help you find your
- How to make beautiful handwriting? This is helped by exercises that contribute to the development of fine motor skills of the fingers: knitting, weaving, modeling, embroidery, etc.
- It is also possible to find a handwriting sample you like from handwritten or maybe computer fonts. And try to imitate it carefully.
- In answering the question of how to write in beautiful handwriting, meditation helps a lot. To do this, you need to imagine how you write smoothly and beautifully. You can even come up with an affirmation that will help speed up the achievement of the desired result.
Thus, it is quite possible to correct and improve handwriting, and age is not an obstacle in this. The main thing is to be patient and diligently, like schoolchildren, strictly prescribe all the exercises that are given in copybooks. How pleasant it will be as a result to sign congratulations on postcards in calligraphic handwriting or fill out important documents!