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  2. Spencerian script - Wikipedia

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    D'Nealian, a style of writing and teaching cursive and manuscript adapted from the Palmer Method Palmer Method , a form of penmanship instruction developed in the late 19th century that replaced Spencerian script as the most popular handwriting system in the United States

  3. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    Cursive – any style of handwriting written in a flowing (cursive) manner, which connects many or all of the letters in a word, or the strokes in a CJK character or other grapheme. Studies of writing and penmanship. Chirography – handwriting, its style and character; Diplomatics – forensic paleography (seeks the provenance of written ...

  4. Palmer Method - Wikipedia

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    Sample writing from The Palmer Method of Business Writing The Palmer Method of penmanship instruction was developed and promoted by Austin Palmer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was intended to simplify the earlier " Spencerian method ", which had been the main handwriting learning method since the 1840s. [ 1 ]

  5. Joseph Carstairs - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Carstairs (2 March 1783 – 9 February 1844 [1]) was an English calligrapher and writing teacher who devised a new system and style of writing in the early 19th century. [2] Carstairs's system emphasised a "bold and free writing" when he first introduced it in 1809. [3]

  6. Copperplate script - Wikipedia

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    D'Nealian, a style of writing and teaching cursive and manuscript adapted from the Palmer Method; Engraving; Palmer Method, a form of penmanship instruction developed in the late 19th century that replaced Spencerian script as the most popular handwriting system in the United States

  7. Western calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    First page of Paul's epistle to Philemon in the Rochester Bible (12th century). A modern calligraphic rendition of the word calligraphy (Denis Brown, 2006). Western calligraphy is the art of writing and penmanship as practiced in the Western world, especially using the Latin alphabet (but also including calligraphic use of the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, as opposed to "Eastern" traditions ...

  8. Charles Paxton Zaner - Wikipedia

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    A major factor contributing to the development of the Zaner-Bloser teaching script was Zaner's study of the body movements required to create the form of cursive letters when using the 'muscular arm method' of handwriting, which was prevalent in the United States from the late 19th century (e.g. Palmer Method).

  9. Court hand - Wikipedia

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    Court hand: alphabet (upper-cases and lower-cases) and some syllable abbreviations. Court hand (also common law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, and charter hand [1]) was a style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts, and later by professionals such as lawyers and clerks.