Writing things down isn't so common in the digital age we live in, but science shows there are major advantages to doing so. If you like putting pen to paper, here are four rare traits you likely ...

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If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

Humming away in offices on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon and in the White House is a technology that represents the pragmatism, efficiency and unsentimental nature of American bureaucracy: the autopen ...

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It’s hard to imagine there’s anyone who still finds an emailed thank-you note from a company endearing. How about a handwritten card from the CEO? That’s surely more likely to elicit a warm response, ...

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...

Long, structured and sequential texts are valued by the academic world, sometimes at the expense of a more global vision. Imagination, visual thinking and subjectivity have little place in this ...

It’s been a long time since people regularly sent hand-written thank you notes and left notes by the refrigerator. Today, you’re far more likely to get a text, even from your spouse. I'm sad about ...