Teach Yourself Better Handwriting (Teach Yourself - General) - Tapa blanda

- Improve your handwriting style to write with ease and confidence - The only book available designed to help the adult to develop their handwriting - Many practical examples and short courses to help you improve - Authored by the world-renowned expert on handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon 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.

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.