Write Now: A Complete Self-teaching Program for Better Handwriting - Softcover

Getty, Barbara; Dubay, Inga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876780893 ISBN 13: 9780876780893

Publisher: Continuing Education Pr. Portland State University, 1991

Synopsis

As the subtitle states, this workbook is self-teaching, and the italic style it prescribes is easy-to-learn, practical, legible, and attractive. A brief amount of practice yields satisfying results, particularly uplifting for the many scribblers ashamed of what their hand produces. Let's hope the method spreads through the schools. In the meantime, old dogs embarrassed by illegible writing can learn new tricks using this clear and intelligently produced guide. Published by Continuing Education Press, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Getty, MAT, has taught calligraphy and handwriting for over 25 years, and elementary school for 14 years. She has been an instructor at Lewis and Clark College, Portland Community College and Portland State University (in Portland, Oregon), currently conducts workshops on calligraphy and italic handwriting, and was featured on CNN. She studied with Lloyd Reynolds and Jacqueline Svaren. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and published in International Calligraphy Today. She is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College, did postgraduate work at Portland State University, receiving her MAT from Lewis and Clark College.

Inga Dubay, BA, has taught calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon, since 1975, and was Book Arts Department Head for six years. She also taught at Portland State University and has conducted numerous calligraphy and handwriting workshops across the country including several International Calligraphy Conferences. She studied at Mills College, received her degree from the University of Oregon, and did post-graduate work at the Art Academy in Oslo, Norway, the University of Oregon, and the University of California, Berkeley. She studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds and Lois McClelland. Her work has been shown in national and international juried and invitational exhibitions, and has been published in Calligraphy Review, Martha Stewart Living and Lettering Arts.

Both authors travel all over the country giving seminars to physicians and medical professionals on how to write legibly.

Reviews

Poor handwriting is a common failing. This book teaches italic handwriting, an attractive, simple script which, with practice, becomes a neat, legible hand. A history of the changes in letter forms over the ages is outlined. The text is hand-lettered rather than typeset, showing the simplicity and elegance of basic, cursive, and edged-pen italic. Pages with sloped and spaced lines may be copied for practice. After this slight book, a course such as the authors teach will appeal. This item can be recommended to anyone who wants improved handwriting, as well as to teachers and adult literacy tutors to instill neat writing along with reading. A caveat to purchasers: the advice "do write in this work book" will be taken by some as an invitation to deface library copies.
- William A. Donovan, Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuing Education Pr. Portland State University
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876780893
• ISBN 13: 9780876780893
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 96