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Teach Yourself Better Handwriting (TY Home Reference) (Paperback)

by Rosemary Sassoon (Author), G S E Briem (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Teach Yourself; 3Rev Ed edition (1 Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340859989
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340859988
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 78,416 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The way we write mirrors our mood and character. It is the way we project ourselves to the world - and other people often judge us by our handwriting. The aim of Teach Yourself Better Handwriting is for people with any style of writing to be able to relate to the book and learn from it.

This practical and informative book will help you to improve your handwriting and develop a mature and individual style. It is specifically written for adults and uses self-diagnosis test to identify problems, and 'before' and 'after' examples to illustrate common faults. This book covers everything from holding a pen, to the difficulties that left-handers face and problems that may be caused by medical conditions.

Teach Yourself Better Handwriting does not try and inpose any particular handwriting model. Instead, it offers alternatives and encourages you to experiment and choose the one that suits you best.

This edition includes a revised introduction and epilogue, as well as even more practical exercises to assist the reader.


About the Author

Rosemary Sassoon is a handwriting consultant specialising in both the educational and medical aspects. Her background was in lettering and design but it is her fieldwork and research into adult problems that form the basis for this book. She lectures widely and is the author of several books. Gunnlaugur SE Briem is a designer and divides his time between Britain and California. He has taken an active interest in the experimental teaching of italic handwriting in his native Iceland. He has a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London, and is on the advisory board of Visible Language. He has designed several typefaces, including a new family for The Times newspaper.

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73 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A journey of self discovery - I like!, 20 May 2006
By L. Phillips - See all my reviews
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I bought this book about 3 weeks ago and have seen a marked improvement in my handwriting. It's a little ponderous in its approach but it ticks all the boxes if you want to identify what makes your handwriting illegible and how to improve with practice. The exercises are pretty boring and repetitive but do them and you will find results in a few weeks can be achieved. The writing style put forward is rather like cursive italic (Getty and Dubay).

In my teens I trained as a draftsman. Each morning I was obliged to spend 30 minutes (for a few months) retraining my cursive hand into printed lettering for architectural drawings. As a result I lost the ability to write cursive and my hand writing 20 years later was very scruffy and printed. My daughter started learning cursive at school so I wanted to re-learn and this has been a journey of discovery!

I like my emerging new handwriting and recommend this book to you!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a great, easy to follow book, 10 Jun 2009
By L. Thomas "mini maupassant" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book was straightforward and easy to follow, and I achieved fantastic (and lasting) results with regular practice over a couple of months.

The advice is easy to follow and doesn't ask you to unlearn all your bad habits, just learn the good habits which will improve your handwriting.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but incredibly repetitive, 18 May 2009
I liked this book, and it has very good techniques and rough insight into what may be the causes of illegible or poorly-structured handwriting and has some very interesting analysis of those. What I did find incredibly annoying was that it repeats the sentiment of "different reasons for differing handwriting quality" so MANY times that you find yourself skimming past yet another paragraph that repeats it.

Overall though, from a practical standpoint it's good. Very easy to understand, well structured and excellent insight into characteristics of handwriting.
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