agility of the keyboard (Korper). Nonetheless, some of these positive aspects of handwriting are largely due to the ‘drill’ factor emphasized in the Palmer Method of handwriting used present day (Korper). Throughout the history of handwriting, Platt Roger Spencer was the first American penman to create a national handwriting model; however, it was a sluggish design due to the fussiness of the fancy writing. In the late nineteenth century, the typewriter had created enormous