But what of the role that handwriting plays in learning and development?
Harkleroad said cursive and neat handwriting have played a crucial role in the preservation of history.
Handwriting has played a big role in some cases.
Instruction begins with the acts of handwriting and plastic art play, characteristic of earlier years of schooling.
He told me to go home that night and write, 100 times, on lined paper and in my best handwriting, "I will not play floor hockey in class," and bring the paper back to him the next morning.
Mayo took the handwriting sample and is eligible to play this season.
In any handwriting analysis system, the handwriting samples play an essential role.
In 1795, the 19-year-old clerk pretended he'd discovered an unknown play in Shakespeare's handwriting while rummaging in an old trunk.
The cramped seventeenth-century handwriting contains notes on William Shakespeare's plays at the time they were performed, by someone who was watching them.
There's no doubt Meghan Markle's calligraphy training plays a role in her handwriting as a royal, which has been dissected by experts.
