An experimental comparison of the movements in manuscript writing and cursive writing

Autor: W. H. Gray
Rok vydání: 1930
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Zdroj: Journal of Educational Psychology. 21:259-272
ISSN: 1939-2176
0022-0663
DOI: 10.1037/h0075967
Popis: Records of both kinds of writing have been made by photographing movements of hand and arm with a kinetoscopic camera. The greatest differences between the two are those in the speed with which the movements are made. Cursive writing is considerably faster than manuscript writing. Adults write in both ways faster than children, but there is a relatively greater increase in speed with age in the case of cursive writing. In manuscript writing strokes made in the air are slightly faster than those made on paper, indicating that the slowness of such writing is not due to lifting the pen. Length of pauses is the same in the two types of writing, but the number is greater in manuscript writing, which is the chief condition of its relative slowness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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