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Dr NJ Ganesh said...

Handwriting Speed

Write joined up

Make sure the instrument you write with has a smooth tip so you won't be expending energy into the mere act of writing whatever you need to write. What you want to focus on is simply getting the words down onto paper, so that's the first step.

If your goal is to write more thoughts down onto paper, regardless of what represents the thought (whether that be entire words or what you should focus on--by abbreviation). Things don't necessarily have to be technically abbreviated the "correct" way; just shorthand a few words that you know you're going to be writing more than once or twice every now and then (ex: In American history class, abbreviate "American" by "Am" if you find you're frequently using it in your notes).

If your objective is to simply write at a faster speed words unchanged (NOT using abbreviation), I write at a slant--like cursive almost, but intertwining print where it's just naturally faster to write whichever letter in the word(s). The more comfortable your hand is writing, the easier it is to write faster, and everything comes through with practice.

The formation of letters needs to become both legible and fast – it needs to be practiced so often that it becomes ‘automatic’ – so that the writer no longer has to think about how to form letters and words. Practice increases the accuracy of fine motor control and as this increases, it opens up a whole new world - the writer is now free to focus on the content – that is to write their thoughts and ideas, to write what they want to write about without being distracted by having to remember how to write each letter of each word as they go along! Research has shown that it is best for
both right-handers and Left-handers to begin in a relaxed way with the rhythmic patterns that underpin handwriting. This approach avoids muscular tensions stemming from anxiety and results in the child developing a personal
style that is legible, fluent and
fast so that they can write quickly
enough to get down what they want to say while it is still in their head.

November 2, 2008 at 8:19 AM

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