Editing Handwriting (section)

{{About|personal style of writing|the technique of writing with the hand|Penmanship|generic style of handwriting|Handwriting script}}
{{Other uses|Handwriting (disambiguation)}}
{{Redirect|Handwritten}}

{{short description|Writing created by a person with a writing implement}}
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| footer = Various examples of different handwritings in different languages throughout history; clockwise from top left: [[Isaiah Scroll]], a breviary, [[Voynich manuscript]], [[The Communist Manifesto]], [[Constitution of the United States]], [[Description of Greece]]
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[[file:Corsivo- come scriverlo a mano in italiano, schede didattiche con alcuni esempi di Paolo Villa (prima edizione commons wikimedia org)-Letters-characters in italics-cursive- how to write it by hand in Italian.pdf|thumb|Handwriting in Italian schools (XXth - XXIst century)]]
'''Handwriting''' is the personal and unique style of [[Writing process|writing]] with a writing instrument, such as a [[pen]] or [[pencil]] in the [[hand]]. Handwriting includes both [[block letters|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 [[Questioned document examination|verify a document's writer]].<ref name="huber_note1">{{Citation
  | last1 = Huber
  | first1 = Roy A.
  | last2 = Headrick
  | first2 = A.M.
  | title = Handwriting Identification: Facts and Fundamentals
  | place = New York
  | publisher = CRC Press
  | date = April 1999
  | page = 84
  | url = http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780849312854
  | isbn = 978-0-8493-1285-4
  | access-date = 2015-12-27
  | archive-date = 2011-09-28
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110928120821/http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780849312854
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref> The deterioration of a person's handwriting is also a symptom or result of several different diseases. The inability to produce clear and coherent handwriting is also known as [[dysgraphia]].