Last week, the TUAW back room got into an incredibly extended debate regarding the merits of iTrace (US$3.99), a kid-centric app that teaches kids basic letter-writing skills. In the end, I pinged ...

Have keyboards and touch screens ruined your handwriting skills? A fountain pen, the right paper and some practice can help.

Twenty years ago, if you had beautiful penmanship, you would be the target of admiration and even envy. For a long time in China, handwriting was a way to judge a person. An old Chinese adage goes ...

Generations of school kids learned penmanship; whether future generations will learn to write their ABC's by hand at ALL, however, is very much in doubt. Our Cover Story is reported now by Tracy ...

The creators of the Lernstift digital pen hope to bring handwriting into the 21st century by having the pen vibrate to indicate when the writer makes spelling and grammatical errors or exhibits ...

The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of other states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating cursive from ...