Do you have the neatest handwriting in the UK?
Send in a photo of your neat handwriting here and tell us what your profession is below.
How neat is your handwriting?
For The One Show, Hardeep Singh Kohli has been asking whether handwriting is fast becoming a dying art. With the popularity of emails and texting, has the nation really forgotten how to write neatly?
So, Adrian and Christine are on a mission to find the person with the neatest handwriting in the UK. Send an example in and it could appear on tomorrow's show (15/05/09).
All we want you to do is write these five lines...
Dear Adrian and Christine, how neat is my handwriting?
Dear Adrian and Christine, how neat is my handwriting?
Dear Adrian and Christine, how neat is my handwriting?
Dear Adrian and Christine, how neat is my handwriting?
Dear Adrian and Christine, how neat is my handwriting?
Take a photograph of your lines and send your pic in here.
SEND IN A PHOTO OF YOUR NEAT HANDWRITING HERE
* Please include your name, location, and profession with your photo for the chance of being featured on the show.
* Please note: Please submit the five lines above, only. Other lines will not be considered for the programme.
And don't forget, once the handwriting appears in the gallery, you can rate it with our five star system.
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Comments
I was taught at an early age to write with a pen and ink. I have continued to do so as I believe that it enhances your writing. It is so sad to see children's handwriting which is illegible due to their inability to form the letters of the alphabet correctly never mind the text spelling.
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Hi Adrian & Christine, great show. Our comment is re the handwriting which Sadheep rightly said is very important, however for my wife who has MS (Multiple Sclerosis) writing is impossible and she is not alone in this, computers therefore have a very important role for some people.
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Dr Daryl Brown, headteacher at Maple Hayes Dyslexia School in Staffordshire believes that it is actually more important how the handwriting feels than how it looks.
He says: "As the headteacher of Britains most successful school for dyslexics, Maple Hayes Hall (dyslexia.gb.com), I encounter many children who confuse b and d as well as other letters because they look the same to them. They often try to write the letter strokes in the wrong order and they struggle to write even a few lines when others finish a page. Learning cursive writing means that the letter b feels (not looks) totally different to the letter d. Learning by feeling - learning kinaesthetically - can help even the most severe dyslexics to learn how to spell and write correctly."
Similarily, the Principal of Maple Hayes, Dr Neville Brown, a world-renowned expert on handwriting, advocates that ALL children should be taught cursive handwriting from age 5!
He says: Using fountain pens reinforces the feeling and memory of letter traces and spelling patterns in a way which printing with biros and pencils does not. Handwriting lessons would not only make writing easier to read but dramatically improve the development of childrens literacy."
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fantastic to see hardeep being "cold read" by the graffologist there. anti science at it's best. i do like the fonz though!
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I think there could have been better coverage of the handwriting samples submitted. Some wonderful samples were submitted on the website, but we were only shown three, and two of these were examples of poor handwriting. The one Christine claimed was her favourite just happened to be submitted by a firefighter, probably the noblest profession declared by any of the submitters. Now we know why we were asked to declare our profession.
Surely it wouldn't have taken too much time to put together a Tony Hart type gallery and have the camera pan over it for a few seconds? Disappointing coverage.
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Is there a future for writing with a pen? Clearly the 11 pages of neat handwriting samples sent in to the One Show speak for themselves. The National Handwriting Association (www.nha-handwriting.org.uk) is a charity dedicated to promoting good practice in the teaching of handwriting. We believe that children should be taught to write legibly and at speed so that they are not disadvantaged in an education system which still relies on the written word. It's great that the One Show has already raised the profile handwriting. If you would like someone from our organisation to talk about how we try to raise standards please get in touch with me.
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Example 18 is either a joke or written by a doctor. Much of the time doctors' writing is dreadful and bordering on an insult to those who have to refer to it. Perversely it's considered comical (doctor so-and-so's writing is so difficult to read, ha ha) yet it carries vital health information which could be miss-read with dangerous consequences to the patient.
Regards AFS
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