Penmanship Practice – January 2015
From the January 1934 issue of The Gregg Writer. Click here for a full view.
Penmanship Practice – December 2014
From the December 1956 issue of Today’s Secretary. Click here for a full view.
Penmanship Practice – November 2014
From the November 1945 issue of The Gregg Writer. Click here for a full view.
Penmanship Practice – October 2014
From the September 1949 issue of The Gregg Writer. Click here for a full view.
Angles and size of strokes for beginners
Take a look at paragraph 277 of the regular Simplified Manual (‘Accuracy Practice’) This paragraph illustrates the correct slant for the downward curved strokes (note that they have been enlarged in this paragraph for clarity). If you were to join up the dots shown to indicate the slant, from the beginning to the end of…
Corrective Slide
A clear acetate overlay, used to determine how close a student’s writing is to the “correct” model in terms of shape, slant, and size. Similar overlays were available for penmanship systems, such as Zaner Bloser and Palmer. I guess someone could make a similar overlay using a copy machine and a piece of transparency plastic…
Penmanship Practice – September 2014
From the September 1945 issue of The Gregg Writer. Click here for a full view.
Penmanship Practice – August 2014
From the March 1952 issue of Today’s Secretary. Click here for a full view.
Penmanship Practice – July 2014
From the March 1952 issue of Today’s Secretary. Click here for a full view.
Penmanship Practice – June 2014
From the June 1943 issue of Gregg Magazine. Click here for a full view.