Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. When joining long ladder letters to other letters, you have to think about where you will finish writing one letter ...

Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.

To keep your handwriting neat, it is important to form letters correctly and make each letter the right size. Remember, there are different types of letters. Long ladder letters (l, t, i, j, u, y) ...

The letters here, from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, show that an artist might put pen to paper just as he or she would apply a line to a drawing. For each artist, a leading authority ...