Dien Rice
June 20, 2022, 12:45 AM
Glenn recently posted about writing by pen and paper (that is, writing by hand) before...
See his post...
Mark Twain Wrote All His Books With Paper & Pen (http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=42822)
Gary Halbert famously asked his students to write out classic direct response ads by hand...
And he wrote all his ads initially with a pen and paper, too (not on the computer)!
A lot of more recent copywriters (even at least one well-known one) rubbish the idea... But there's evidence that Gary was right!
Handwriting helps with learning a new language... suggesting it may also help with "absorbing" the lessons of an ad...
Handwriting Is Better Than Typing When Learning a New Language, Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/handwriting-is-better-than-typing-when-learning-to-read-study-finds
Handwriting helps kids learn more and remember better
Why writing by hand makes kids smarter
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201001113540.htm
It can even help with creativity!
How Handwriting Trains the Brain
https://archive.ph/YyQPR
"Other research highlights the hand's unique relationship with the brain when it comes to composing thoughts and ideas. Virginia Berninger, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says handwriting differs from typing because it requires executing sequential strokes to form a letter, whereas keyboarding involves selecting a whole letter by touching a key. ...
"And one recent study of hers demonstrated that in grades two, four and six, children wrote more words, faster, and expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand versus with a keyboard."
You might benefit even if your handwriting looks like chicken scratch marks in the dirt (like mine does)!
- Dien
P.S. I still mostly type though...
P.P.S. I recently tried an experiment where I wrote what I wanted "to do" each day by hand, as opposed to typing it up (I've done both in the past)... I found writing it up by hand to be more motivational - and I feel I ended up getting more done - compared to typing it up...
See his post...
Mark Twain Wrote All His Books With Paper & Pen (http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=42822)
Gary Halbert famously asked his students to write out classic direct response ads by hand...
And he wrote all his ads initially with a pen and paper, too (not on the computer)!
A lot of more recent copywriters (even at least one well-known one) rubbish the idea... But there's evidence that Gary was right!
Handwriting helps with learning a new language... suggesting it may also help with "absorbing" the lessons of an ad...
Handwriting Is Better Than Typing When Learning a New Language, Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/handwriting-is-better-than-typing-when-learning-to-read-study-finds
Handwriting helps kids learn more and remember better
Why writing by hand makes kids smarter
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201001113540.htm
It can even help with creativity!
How Handwriting Trains the Brain
https://archive.ph/YyQPR
"Other research highlights the hand's unique relationship with the brain when it comes to composing thoughts and ideas. Virginia Berninger, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says handwriting differs from typing because it requires executing sequential strokes to form a letter, whereas keyboarding involves selecting a whole letter by touching a key. ...
"And one recent study of hers demonstrated that in grades two, four and six, children wrote more words, faster, and expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand versus with a keyboard."
You might benefit even if your handwriting looks like chicken scratch marks in the dirt (like mine does)!
- Dien
P.S. I still mostly type though...
P.P.S. I recently tried an experiment where I wrote what I wanted "to do" each day by hand, as opposed to typing it up (I've done both in the past)... I found writing it up by hand to be more motivational - and I feel I ended up getting more done - compared to typing it up...
