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Bold text--Gedala madhava rao (talk) 10:55, 15 October 2013 (UTC)  <ref THE HANDWRITING 1.1. THE HISTORY OF WRITING “A lamp without light is darkness; a language without writing is meaningless.” If language were compared to a two wheeler, spoken language would be one wheel, and written language would be the other. As you know, language is a vehicle which carries the thoughts, ideas, and emotional expressions from one person to another. Specifically, the written words and spoken sounds are the two best forms of a language. The spoken form of language has existed for over 100,000 years, but the history of writing started about 5,000 years. Around 3200 B.C., Sumerian pictographic writing    1.1. Sumerians clay tablets                                                                       systems were found on clay tablets. Egyptian hieroglyphs found on papyrus, using ink on reed pens, established the starting point of the “history of writing.” During the Middle Ages, monks in Europe practiced handwriting. In the 13th century, handwriting flourished among educated and elite people across the globe. Today, we know the importance of handwriting better than ever before. Our ancestors; the Sumerians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans, struggled for about 100,000 years to express spoken sounds as written symbols. This need arose because of the demand for preservation of spoken words. With the invention of written symbols, man began writing descriptions of every event, incident, and affair of his times. Thus began History. Pythagoras once said, “If History is a fruit; writing is the root;". Here obviously, we can say that writing shows 1.2. Egyptians writings on papyrus                                                   our history, civic sense, economical status, culture, customs, traditions, likes, dislikes, strengths, weakness, and more. Can’t we now say that, “writing is precious to us?” 1.2. INTRODUCTION OF HANDWRITING            It is critical to note that Writing and handwriting are two different concepts with invisible interdependency. Writing defines as dropping of written symbols of a language in corresponding with spoken sounds through certain means. These means may be hand, Typewriter, and Pager etc. It is named as handwriting, because we write something by using hand similarly, writing something with a typewriter is called Typewriting. Moreover, a person's handwriting style is unique so, no two person’s handwriting is alike. There are many reasons for differences in handwriting. But the main reason is ‘the way you learn, you are’. Critically speaking, handwriting is a product of written skill of a language whereas written skill is one of important among the four skills of language learning. They are Listing, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Remember as write, you would recall what you heard and by moving your lips you speak or read what you write on a writing surface. Now, it’s clear that writing is a skill that reinforces all other skills of language learning. The saying goes; "I listen- I forget,                                                 I read- I understand                                                 I write- I remember" We can infer that writing has been the best method of comprehending content for a long time. Thus, modern Indian educationalists, graphologists and educational psychologists emphasize the importance of writing skills of a language. 1.2.1. Written Sample of Gandhi mahatma            1. 2.2. Sample of Mother Theresa                     1.2.3. Sample of Swami Vivekananda The three legends handwritten samples are unique or no two are alike as their personalities and the way of living. As Gandhi said not only good handwriting impresses others but also it exhibits the character and personality of the people concern. 1.3. Importance of Good Handwriting It is critical to note that writing, handwriting, and good handwriting are three different concepts with an unavoidable interdependency. Philip Hansher, once remarked about handwriting in this era; "The missing ink can still be the spring nectar of our lives". This means that despite the invention of the typewriter, emails and texting will never replace the image of handwriting because certain tasks, taking notes, filling out forms, letter writings are the best performances of handwriting. The modern invention of electronic devices may be lessened the workload of ink but the unfolding messages of ink will never vanish from our lives till the edge of the doom. Good handwriting is more important than the normal running hand. Good handwriting is that which is easily and rapidly written, read, and understood. Good handwriting needs to be simpler in construction, normal in slant, and easy and natural in moments. In earning good handwriting, you need employ scientific and technical skills from early childhood. Remember that illegible and messy handwriting costs more than 38 million unreadable letters could not be delivered in one year in USA. Excitingly, US court awarded $450,000 to the family of a Texas man, who died after a pharmacist misread the doctor’s handwritten prescription. An Indian survey found that 90% of handwritten medical prescriptions are unreadable and thus the medicine is dispatched based on guess. Subsequently, 10% of medicine is erroneously dispatched to the patient. Do not just focus, on correcting messy and illegible handwriting but also importance of good handwriting. Good handwriting is acquired through intensive study and extensive practice followed by well-designed pattern. The first step in learning to write is getting a clear idea about what is going to be written and how the alphabet is originated. Keeping this in mind, a brief theory on the origin of the alphabet will be outlined in next chapter.