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  2. Palmer Method - Wikipedia

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    It was intended to simplify the earlier "Spencerian method", which had been the main handwriting learning method since the 1840s. [1] The Palmer Method soon became the most popular handwriting system in the United States. [2] Under the method, students were taught to adopt a uniform system of cursive writing with rhythmic motions.

  3. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    Many copybooks were produced in North America at the start of the 20th century, mostly for Business Style penmanship (a simplified form of Ornamental Style). These included those produced by A. N. Palmer, a student of Gaskell, who developed the Palmer Method, as reflected in his Palmer's Guide to Business Writing, published in 1894

  4. Graphology - Wikipedia

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    In 1991, Jean-Charles Gille-Maisani stated that Juan Huarte de San Juan's 1575 Examen de ingenios para las ciencias was the first book on handwriting analysis. [10] [11] In American graphology, Camillo Baldi's Trattato come da una lettera missiva si conoscano la natura e qualità dello scrittore from 1622 is considered to be the first book.

  5. Handwriting - Wikipedia

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    Handwriting includes both block and cursive styles and is separate from generic and formal handwriting script/style, calligraphy or typeface. Because each person's handwriting is unique and different, it can be used to verify a document's writer. [1] The deterioration of a person's handwriting is also a symptom or result of several different ...

  6. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    The tokens were then progressively replaced by flat tablets, on which signs were recorded with a stylus. Actual writing is first recorded in Uruk (modern Iraq), at the end of the 4th millennium BCE, and soon after in various parts of the Near East. [30] An ancient Sumerian poem gives the first known story of the invention of writing:

  7. Exam - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 November 2024. Educational assessment For other uses, see Exam (disambiguation) and Examination (disambiguation). Cambodian students taking an exam in order to apply for the Don Bosco Technical School of Sihanoukville in 2008 American students in a computer fundamentals class taking an online test in ...

  8. Timeline of optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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    The first program that recognizes Cyrillic is invented by Russian company OKRUS. [1] 2000 Application Online service OCR technology is made available online as a service (WebOCR), in a cloud computing environment, as well as in mobile applications like real-time translation of foreign-language signs on a smartphone. [24] 2005 Application Software

  9. Writing assessment - Wikipedia

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    Writing assessment scholars do not always agree about the origin of writing assessment. The history of writing assessment has been described as consisting of three major shifts in methods used in assessing writing. [5] The first wave of writing assessment (1950-1970) sought objective tests with indirect measures of