Explain the Palmer Method  of  Cursive  Writing.?
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Palmer Method\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nThe Palmer Method of penmanship instruction was developed and promoted by Austin Palmer in the early 1900's and soon became the most popular handwriting system in the United States. Under it, students were taught to copy a uniform style of cursive writing with rhythmic motions. Left-handers were usually made to use their right hands. The method developed around 1888 and was introduced in his 1894 book Palmer's Guide to Business Writing. In spite of opposition from the major textbook companies, this textbook enjoyed great success: in 1912, 1,000,000 copies were sold throughout the country. The method garned awards, as well: in 1915, the Gold Medal at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California; and in 1926, the Gold Medal at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\n\nPalmer's style fell out of popularity and was replaced by a movement to teach children manuscript before teaching them cursive, in order to provide them with a means of written expression as soon as possible and thus develop writing skills. Students would switch to cursive later on. This effectively reduced the emphasis on handwriting in elementary school and is sometimes said to have been responsible for a decrease in the overall legibility of modern American handwriting.\n\nThe style is now experiencing renewed attention, both from people interested in improving handwriting for themselves, and for those working with facilitated handwriting for the disabled. As the Palmer method has a focus on shoulder and arm movements, it is helpful for many with limited movement of the fingers.
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I had dreadful handwriting as a child (poor fine motor control) and later became a teacher who had passive to better-than-average handwriting (it never became great).  The first thing is, no one was able to help me with my handwriting, and nagging me about it would have made me not even bother trying.  Second, it gets a lot better naturally around middle school when teachers don't force you to write a particular way (cursive vs. printing) so long as it is neat and you develop your own "handwriting" which will be likely a mix of both.  Having said that, what I did around her age was made myself extra credit out of it.  I made up a "cursive castle" game I did by merely practicing letters on a castle I drew out.  If she's into something, maybe she wouldn't mind decorating it with isolated letters so as to practice formation.  Next, I would recommend trying something like knitting (to start...it's easier to learn than most needlecraft), latchhook, or ideally counted or stamped cross-stitch to develop fine motor control.  This helped me a lot and as my motor control improved, so did my handwriting.  In the end, remember, she has to have motivation to learn to write more neatly and since, in this day and age, computers are honestly the most viable option, she will probably be harder to self-motivate than I was.  Good luck with this.
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Wife knows it.......and she is the only person I know that still uses it.\n\nGo here\nhttp://www.alysion.org/handy/althandwriting.htm
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You can take the time to write it yourself.  You can't buy someone else's work and turn it in as your own.  Not only are you not learning anything, you are guilty of plagarism - academic fraud.
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If you like your own handwriting better than any font on your computer, turn it into a font and install it on your machine. Today's free file, Fontifier, lets you do that in no time. \n\nFontifier lets you turn your handwriting into a custom font in five easy steps. \n\nDownload and print a copy of the Fontifier handwriting template. \n\nUse a thick felt pen to write letters, numbers, and punctuation in the appropriate boxes. \n\nScan your image and save it as a .gif file. If your scanner doesn't automatically save to .gif, save your image as a bitmap, open it, and re-save as a .gif. \n\nSubmit your .gif to the Fontifier website. You may need to rotate your image if the site doesn't accept it the first time around. \n\nDrag your new font file into the Font folder in your control panel.\n\n:> peace
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I've read this somewhere but can't remember where.  First write, write and write some more.  Have enough to show that you CAN actually write.  Contact local papers etc. to find out if they have a need or opening and then take off!  Don't think there's a whole lot of technicalities.  You just do it.  Best wishes...
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Practice.  Seriously!  Remember those nasty little curly 0's and l's that (some of us) had to write when learning cursive?  I know it sounds stupid, but it really works!  I had horrible handwriting when I was in Junior High, and I was determined to improve it.  So I practiced the writing exercises, and focused on practicing the letters that I didn't write well.  I now get many compliments on my handwriting.
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Your teacher is asking for an expository paper -- one that explains. These are pretty forumlaic. Imagine that you are talking to an alien who knows nothing about writing. Start by telling them what it is, then tell them how you use it, why it's important, and where you might see writing used. If you write an introduction (what the paper is about), and a couple of good 3-4 sentence paragraphs about each of these things, you'll have two pages.\n\nHere's some help: www.stanford.edu/~arnetha/expowrite/info.html .\n\nGood luck,\n~Tia~\nLive from the big, purple brain\nhttp://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html\nASK YOUR QUESTIONS, CALL THE BRAIN - 212-382-3592
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The pretty letters are called 'calligraphy' - the art of handwriting.\n\nThe capital letters that sometimes start chapters in the bibles are the 'illuminated' part of the manuscript, chiefly because the monks who used to do them used gold leaf to colour them, which reflected the light off the page.\n\nCalligraphy is now an art form, and you can get books on the subject which show you how to use pens and inks to produce the lettering.
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Imitaion is always the best form of change. Practice the British trills and you'll get the hang of it. For a bad example, I change my handwriting style when I get bored with it, adding new frills and whatnot. It takes me a while to catch on, but after writing a few school assignments, I've got the hang of my new style. Good luck!
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Here are a few practical writinghelp-central.com letter writing tips that you may find helpful when writing that next letter:\n\n   1. Keep it short and to the point.\n      Letters involving business (personal or corporate) should be concise, factual, and focused. Try to never exceed one page or you will be in risk of losing your reader. A typical letter page will hold 350 to 450 words. If you can’t get your point across with that many words you probably haven’t done enough preparatory work. If necessary, call the recipient on the phone to clarify any fuzzy points and then use the letter just to summarize the overall situation.\n\n   2. Focus on the recipient’s needs.\n      While writing the letter, focus on the information requirements of your audience, the intended addressee. If you can, in your “mind’s eye” imagine the intended recipient seated across a desk or boardroom table from you while you are explaining the subject of the letter. What essential information does that person need to know through this communication? What will be their expectations when they open the letter? Have you addressed all of these?\n\n   3. Use simple and appropriate language.\n      Your letter should use simple straightforward language, for clarity and precision. Use short sentences and don’t let paragraphs exceed three or four sentences. As much as possible, use language and terminology familiar to the intended recipient. Do not use technical terms and acronyms without explaining them, unless you are certain that the addressee is familiar with them.\n\n   4. Re-read and revise it.\n      Do a first draft of the letter, and then carefully review and revise it. Put yourself in the place of the addressee. Imagine yourself receiving the letter. How would you react to it? Would it answer all of your questions? Does it deal with all of the key issues? Are the language and tone appropriate? Sometimes reading it out loud to one’s self, can be helpful. When you actually “hear” the words it is easy to tell if it “sounds” right, or not.\n\n   5. Check spelling and grammar.\n      A letter is a direct reflection of the person sending it, and by extension, the organization that person works for. When the final content of the letter is settled, make sure that you run it through a spelling and grammar checker. Sending a letter with obvious spelling and grammar mistakes looks sloppy and unprofessional. In such cases, the recipient can’t really be blamed for seeing this as an indication as to how you (and your organization) probably do most other things.
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try to writing with both of your hands. it's true, my doctor said that. writing with right hand exercise our left brain, while writing with left hand exercise our right brain. i start my teraphy since highscool.
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It's to have the students practice their handwriting, which is very important. The more you practice something, the better you get!\n\nHaving neat and readable handwriting is very important, even today with computers being so common. Having illegible handwriting can really be a handicap.
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they are all just different ways of writing portions of a whole\n\n1/2     .5        50%\n1/3     .33      33%\n1/4     .25      25%\n1/5     .2        20%
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what ? \n\nyou mean why is it 2U(doube u) instead of 2V(double V) ?\n\nWell, because DoubleU goes back to the time when they wrote everything in cursive. And when you write a W in cursive, it doesn't look anything like 2 V's
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Look at this:  \n\nM = /&#92;/&#92;\n\nW = &#92;/&#92;/\n\nnow... what does it take to turn an M into a W?\n/&#92;/&#92; ~> /&#92;/ ~> &#92;/&#92;/\n\nThe point is, it's pretty close to being the same letter, so in times of lapsed concentration, it's easy for your hand to forget which letter it's writing.  What's funny is when people type out completely different words than the ones they were thinking.  It's Freudian.  Like if you're used to typing out "what the hell?" every single day but today you decide you're going to type "what the hole", and your fingers bypass the hole and go straight to hell.
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Well, throughout my lifetime, I've learned one thing.  Scantron tests\nare a bitch.  So this text will hopefully help you out.  I'd like to point\nout that the results that the methods and results I write about came from\nACTUAL experiments with ACTUAL Scantrons and Scanning Machines.  I spent a\nlong time working these out.  I have tried virtually everything there is\nto try to beat the scantron machine, and I can happily say that it can be\ndone.  Now, I am not endorsing that you use these methods to get the first\nletter of the alphabet on your report card.  These are for informational\nand entertainment purposes only.  If you do use these methods, I, of\ncourse, am not at all responsible and blah blah blah.\n   I would like to thank someone that was essential to making this file\npossible, but I doubt that he would want to be identified.  He was one of\nmy teachers.  That's as far as I'll go with that.\n   Now on to the good stuff...\n\n1.  Marking the black lines (Black on Black method)-\n   On the left side of most scantrons that I know of, there are black\nlines next to question numbers.  My hypothesis is that these black lines\ntell the machine where to scan.  I don't know how it works, but it does,\nbut not as often to create a great advantage.  It works about  25%-30% of\nthe time.  I suppose coupled with actual guessing, this does add to the\nprobability of getting a correct answer.  This is my recommended hack.\nThis is the hack that will work more often than any other.  Do it only on\nthe ones you can't answer.\n\n2.  Erasing the same black lines (Erasure method)-\n   Now this hack is pretty self-explanatory.  You erase those same black\nlines, only on the ones you can't answer though.  Sometimes the machine\nskips the question and doesn't mark it at all.  This leaves you with a\ncorrect answer.\n-OR-\n   The machine will record an error and not mark the paper at all,\nincluding the score.  This will then allow the teacher to grade it by\nhand, where he or she may notice the tampering.\n\n3.  Erasing the big black block (Big block eradication method)-\n   Along the left side is a big black block.  It is on the upper part of\nthe column before the question lines.  Occasionally, the machine will just\nskip over the whole damn thing but leave you with a 100%.  This is\npractically impossible to get to work.  I have gotten it to work twice out\nof hundreds of trials, but it can be done.  My reasoning for this is\nbecause there is another similar block at the bottom of the column.  I\nbelieve that the big block tells the machine when to begin scanning for\nquestions.  I think that variations in the printing of scantrons probably\nproduce a block on the bottom similar enough to the erased block.   Thus,\nthe machine sees the block begins scanning, sees nothing to correct and\ngives you a 100%.  Like I said this is probably less than 1% success, but\nit can work.\n\n4.  Cutting out that big block (Hole in your head method)-\n   I have had more success with this than erasing for some reason.  Again\nthis is an all or nothing proposition.  If you like gambling, go ahead.\nRemember that you will leave more noticable physical evidence.\n\n5.  Cross-hatching fill-ins (Cross method)-\n   This method works about 20%-25% of the time.  I believe it is pretty\nself-explanatory.  I find that the best patterns are diaganol\ncross-hatches, or horizontal lines.  I can't explain why this works, I\nassume you are simply confusing the machine.\n\n6.  In-between shading (Grey areas method)-\n   By in-between shading, I mean finding a level of grey that is not too\ndark or too light.  I believe this will work because of the same reason as\n#5.\n\n8.  YOU FILL IN THE CORRECT ANSWER!\n\n*******ADDED SINCE LAST POSTING OF THIS DOCUMENT*********\n\n9.  According to Anthony Iannone <aiannone@maple.nis.net>...\n    This person states that he has worked on maintenance of those\nwonderful machines that COR