ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#102 | October 17 | ISSN 0975-3036

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This book covers basic handwriting through to the cursive writing style. The first style (the authors refer to this as ‘edged italic’) is the most basic form of italic handwriting and is generally thought to children to help them improve their handwriting. Now before you stop reading this review, let me state that any adult can gain from this book. In particular, it is this reviewers opinion that if you use pens in any form of writing capacity, you should definitely read these books: there are pages on pen styles, writing positions and inter-page notes on writing/alphabet history. The book starts with an introduction to the formation of scriptive letters. Of importance is the use of typographic terms such as X height, descenders, ascenders etc. and how these are relevant to improving your handwriting. (more…)