As handwriting matters very much to those who study literary authors, so its significance recurs in many literary works.
Still curious, I poked around to figure out why handwriting matters, whether cursive in particular is important, and whether kids are still learning it, inundated as they are with on-screen options for conveying their thoughts.
So I put an asterisk, and at the bottom I wrote, 'It was really this guy.' " But even for Rivera and his precise script, it is not the handwriting that matters so much as the man who applies it.
He has sent thousands of letters to government ministers — known as the "black spider memos," for the urgent scrawl of his handwriting — on matters ranging from school meals and alternative medicine to the brand of helicopters used by British soldiers in Iraq and the plight of the Patagonian toothfish.
Spelling and handwriting do not matter at this point, you're looking for the flow of writing to be strong.
Patrick McGreevy was worried about his handwriting; no small matter, considering that in addition to shading columns of small bubbles, the students will be asked, for the first time on a state test, to take notes and answer essay questions.
References and handwriting do not matter much and I give generous credit even if the essay is written in a very bad hand and has no quotations.
What's more, I don't want them in my school teaching handwriting or, for that matter, anything else!" If you think that wouldn't happen now, you're wrong.
Winter concludes: "Although, as things stand, it is difficult to construct much of a defence for Alekhine, only the discovery of the articles in his own handwriting will settle the matter beyond all doubt".
Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why It Still Matters Philip Hensher Macmillan, £16.99 In an age when typing threatens to make handwriting redundant, Philip Hensher argues that we should treasure it as a vital expression of human individuality.
Then I also get assignments in police and court matters to analyze handwriting in forgery and child-custody cases.
