Not so fast, says Elizabeth Ubell, vice president of marketing at Newell Rubbermaid, which bought venerable pen-makers Parker and Waterman in 1999. Now she's innovating to survive.

Handwriting forces us to slow down and smell the ink. Another often-overlooked benefit of writing by hand is that it just plain forces us to slow down and enjoy the moment — a novelty in today ...

Thanks to computers and tablets, good handwriting seems less important than ever. But handwriting is an important developmental skill, and your handwriting says a lot about you. We spoke with ...

The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 91, No. 5 (May - Jun., 1998), pp. 290-296 (7 pages) The relationship between handwriting style and handwriting speed and legibility was investigated. Three ...

Writing notes by hand can help you remember more clearly, but in some cases typing is more valuable.

But slow writing need not be the norm. In journalism, the goal should be fast writing – or at least faster writing. I’m a pretty fast writer, but not the fastest.