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Effects of Page Prompts on Beginning Handwriting Legibility

The Journal of Educational Research, 1984
AbstractBecause the prompts for manuscript letter-formation found on handwriting worksheets are considered critical for facilitating legibility and for building in-dependent writing skills, the influence of printed writing prompts on legibility was studied in a within-subjects design.
Edward V., Sims, Paul Weisberg
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Factors Affecting the Legibility of Handwriting

The Journal of Experimental Education, 1946
(1946). Factors Affecting the Legibility of Handwriting. The Journal of Experimental Education: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 297-316.
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Using the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment and Handwriting Checklist in Screening First and Second Graders' Handwriting Legibility

Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine appropriate screening tools for school-based therapists to use in assessing handwriting difficulties in children. Using the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment (MHA), this study examines the ranges of legibility of handwriting in typically-developing first and second grade students. Also, it evaluated whether the
Karen Laurie Roston, Jim Hinojosa, Howard Kaplan   +2 more
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A Legibility Index: can handwriting be measured?

Educational Review, 1983
Abstract Writing scripts completed by a representative sample of seven‐year‐old Cheshire children were used to examine the reliability of teacher subjective rating and the reliability, validity and item analysis of a handwriting checklist. One hundred samples were processed by five experienced teachers who rated them on a seven point scale and marked ...
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ClearPen

CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computer systems - CHI '03, 2003
We describe the application of a pen model, and sub-pixel addressing (ClearPen), to render handwriting on an LCD display. This technique is shown to improve the legibility of handwriting. ClearPen can increase the viability of working with handwriting on a computer. This has direct significance to TabletPC applications such as note taking or annotating
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Inter‐rater reliability of three adult handwriting legibility instruments

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 2012
Background/aimLegibility is important for functional, handwritten communication. Deficits in legibility can impair occupational performance following stroke or trauma. Few instruments are available to assess adult handwriting legibility during rehabilitation.
Eunice H, Au, Annie, McCluskey, Natasha A, Lannin   +2 more
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The Comparative Legibility and Speed of Manuscript and Cursive Handwriting

The Elementary School Journal, 1930
It is the purpose of the study reported in this article to show, on the basis of objective measurements, the relative legibility and rate of production of two forms of handwriting, namely, manuscript writing and cursive writing. Measurements were made of specimens secured from pupils in Grades II-VI.
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Use of weighted pencils to improve handwriting legibility

Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention, 2017
Several therapeutic strategies and approaches are used to facilitate handwriting skills in children with illegible writing.
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Handwriting Legibility is Related to Spelling Level, but Not to Reading and Spelling Progress

Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention
In three studies the relationship between handwriting difficulties and dyslexia was investigated. Study 1 examined differences in handwriting difficulties between children with (n = 331) and without dyslexia (n = 305). Children with dyslexia experienced more difficulties with legible handwriting than those without.
Sanne M. Kuster, Marjolein Gompel, Freek Turlings, Anna M. T. Bosman   +3 more
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(Il)legibility and Handwriting in Meiji Letters: A Media History

positions: asia critique, 2017
This article explores the intermedial as a conceptual framework for Asia media critique and history. Although not a new concept in media studies, it proves useful for troubling the divide often imposed on old and new media forms—including technologies of communication—and for theorizing their movement in and across sociocultural contexts.
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