Hard-to-read handwriting is causing problems in America’s workplaces, according to new research, with as many as seven in 10 people saying that struggling to read a co-worker’s handwriti… ...

There’s bad handwriting, and then there’s handwriting that makes you question how someone made it through elementary school. That’s the vibe this college student (@kdotfan727) brought to ...

One of my longtime medical pet peeves has been jokes about doctors’ bad handwriting. Ha ha. But it’s no joke. If you have sloppy handwriting, then prescriptions and procedures get mixed up and ...

As a former education reporter who has written extensively on child development, I wondered if bad handwriting would really have any lasting consequences for today’s kids.

Some children's handwriting is very beautiful, while some children's handwriting is not even understandable. Everyone wants beautiful handwriting, but due to basic mistakes, even after trying to ...

Everybody knows that docs have bad handwriting. But what you may not have realized is that many docs are starting to admit that their illegible scrawls can lead to medical mistakes. Roughly one ...

It's not too late to improve your messy handwriting. Try out these easy tips to better poor penmanship.

For most, handwriting in school means a series of repetitive exercises, but a task mastered midway through elementary school. <p> But for many autistic children, even those with higher IQs than ...

“Handwriting isn’t bad for everyone. In fact, most people I’ve met have good handwriting.” But do kids still need to learn to write legibly?

Whether a person writes in script like their mother or sloppily slants their letters like their father, their handwriting is a mix of both nature and nurture, experts say. Many factors go into ...

Medical doctors get lumbered with the traditional "bad handwriting joke" for a reason--I haven't yet met one that writes legibly. But these scribbles are no joke: Doctors' bad handwriting may be ...

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