What's the difference between handwriting and penmanship?

Handwriting


Definition:

  • (n.) The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
  • (n.) That which is written by hand; manuscript.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient with the right posterior lesion could not recognize handwriting, was prosopagnosic and topographagnosic, but had no difficulty in reading, lipreading, or in recognizing stylized drawings.
  • (2) Despite control for sex-typed handwriting cues in the second study, 8 male novitiates' responses were assessed as less empathic than those of 8 females.
  • (3) It was found that automated speech recognition (ASR) permitted doctors to produce their reports faster and more accurately than handwriting or dictation to tape.
  • (4) In the second experiment, preadolescent learning-disabled students who were required to read and spell correctly a greater number of words per reward token later spent more time and completed more work for reward tokens in mathematics, and handwriting.
  • (5) When I returned home from Athens, among the waiting mail, there was a letter written to me in the handwriting that had become so familiar over the previous 10 years.
  • (6) For seven years, the government has been fighting to prevent the disclosure of the letters – dubbed "black spider memos" because of the heir's handwriting.
  • (7) During the study period, psychopathometric data, prolactin plasma levels, and handwriting samples were collected.
  • (8) 2ptspls) but handwriting at length, to be read by others, seems now to be confined to school and university examinations.
  • (9) After all, there's no call for handwriting in most jobs today, any more than there is any requirement for independent thought.
  • (10) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
  • (11) effect on the handwriting area was manifest from 8 to 48 h after administration and reached maximum intensity between 24 and 36 h. This is consistent with rather a large duration of action observed clinically.
  • (12) The only black, female reporter on Florida’s Daytona Beach News-Journal, from 2007 Ferrier was targeted with a stream of abusive letters threatening lynchings and a “race war”, all in the same handwriting and from the same potentially dangerous person.
  • (13) However, correlations among scores on 6 measures showed that handwriting was significantly related to visuomotor integration, visual form perception, and tracing in the total group and to visuomotor integration and visual form perception in the clumsy group.
  • (14) Examined the relationship between certain handwriting characteristics and Eysenck's Extraversion-Introversion and Kagan's Impulsivity-Reflectivity personality dimensions.
  • (15) Howard R. Hughes was eliminated as the possible writer of the questioned handwriting on Exhibits Q-1 through Q-35.
  • (16) Technology seems to have ruined our collective handwriting ability.
  • (17) With that, you can open five other features: • Action Memo lets you handwrite a note.
  • (18) It has long been a painful rite of passage for German schoolchildren – learning "die Schreibschrift", a fiddly form of joined-up handwriting all pupils are expected to have mastered by the time they leave primary school.
  • (19) Although the phrase, "handwriting is brainwriting," is commonly heard, there is little in the literature to support the statement.
  • (20) At the left parietal leads in the normal readers, the morphology of the verbal stimuli (capitals and handwriting) were very similar throughout the sweep and both were very different from the nonverbal stimuli.

Penmanship


Definition:

  • (n.) The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pages have many cross-outs and insertions in meticulous penmanship – with an open acknowledgment that some of the maths was beyond even him.
  • (2) The digital age, with its typing and its texting, has left us unable to jot down the simplest of notes with anything like penmanship.
  • (3) He smiles down from the foyer of the college that houses the day-care centre only to peer out again amid the stick-men pictures and spidery penmanship on the wall of centre itself.
  • (4) Whether the change is in my eyesight, my tolerance level, or student penmanship, reading exam scripts is becoming, for me too, increasingly painful.
  • (5) In summary then, the neuropsychological profile of Filipino parkinsonians reveals deficits in visuospatial processing, social judgment, attention and mental tracking, recent memory and word retrieval, aside from predicted difficulty in fine motor activities which would result in a deterioration of their penmanship.
  • (6) In response to these difficulties, special educators often modify literacy instruction, isolating the "basic skills" of literacy (such as decoding and penmanship) from meaningful reading and writing activities.