Importance of Handwriting and how to improve it

Everyone has come across the advertisement of Apsara Extra Dark Pencils which stated “Extra marks for good handwriting”. Handwriting is one of the major quality one has and has to be build over a period of time.

Due to increase in usage of smart phone for almost all the activities which includes taking notes on the editor of smart phones or laptops children and even adults have reduced usage of book and pen. Due to which the habit of writing has almost come down to 5- 10%.

Parents now a days are concerned about their child’s handwriting. Neat and clean handwriting not only creates a positive impact on the reader, but it also keeps the reader engaged. It creates a first impression of the writer. Good handwriting helps the best during the examination where a paper written in clear handwriting would be easy to read and understand whereas the one which is in bad handwriting and with lots of strike offs would be difficult to understand.

Following are few secret tips which will help everyone who wants to improve their handwriting.

Use lined or ruled paper for practice

When you first begin to start practicing it would be easy to practice first on ruled papers to make it straight and neat. Even if you have to write on blank page you can out a ruled page below it, trace would be seen on blank page which can be used reference to write in straight line.

Use a nice pen/pencil

Using a good quality pen/pencil will practicing will always enhance the handwriting. Low quality pen/pencil will most of the times depress the quality of writing.

Develop a good writing posture

Sitting up straight, keeping your neck and back as straight as possible. Slumping or dropping posture leads to back, neck and shoulder pains.

Warm up your hands

Little warm up before you start writing always helps in better movement. You can following the said warm up exercise:

• Flex your hands for 5 seconds.
• Roll your wrist for 5 seconds.

This will loosen up your muscles. This is most effective when you have not been writing for a long time now, this area gets tightened up and movement would not be smooth and in flow making it difficult to write.

Position the page at an angle between 30˚ to 45˚

For left-handed people the top edge of the page should point your right.

For right-handed people the top edge of the page should point your left.

However, these are not ideal angles who can make small adjustments to find the angle which is of best comfort to you.

Maintain a relax gap

Make sure that while writing you are not holding your pen/pencil too hard. It will lead to sore hands which will then make your writing sloppy and you would also would not be able to sustain for long. Nice, relaxed grip would help you to maintain your pace of clean and neat writing.

Draw shapes

Letters are combination of basic shapes. So, draw and practice shapes. You can practice vertical, horizontal, circles and semi circles.

Move on to writing individual letters

Once you are done practicing shapes move on to writing individual letters. Practice writing alphabets from small to capital letters.

Analyse your handwriting

Will practicing it is also important to analyse your process. You need to evaluate your handwriting from the starting point. For doing this tale your pen/pencil and paper and try copying a paragraph from a magazine, newspaper etc. This is to check how your handwriting looks on an average. While evaluating check the alignment of words, they all should be in same alignment. Next thing that needs to be checked is to see for a slant, little bit of slant is ok but more of it would make it difficult to read. Also, other think to be taken care about slant is that if slant is present in your handwriting it should be towards right or left and should not be mixed. Next thing that needs to be checked is space between the words, they should be evenly spaced. Best trick is to put letter “O” in between the space to check the spacing.

Look for inspiration

It is important to look up to some inspirations to improve in right way. Always have an inspiration about someone to look upon.

These tricks would help anyone who wants to improve their handwriting in correct way and also helps to mould one’s personality.