For centuries, the educated, wealthy and refined could be distinguished by their ability to put quill to parchment to create beautiful, flowing letters. The delicately formed cursive letters of ...

RASCOE: Ms. Brooks has a cursive alphabet up on the wall and says her students are excited to learn it. And the most frequent question she gets at the beginning of each school year is this.

Experiment. Find a model alphabet Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. Search for “letter guides” that show the shapes and the order of strokes.

“One example is, at times, cursive can be an excellent example of self-expression and catharsis…” Writing sample from 11-year-old Liam Cassidy's essay.

Calligraphy, which means “beautiful writing” in Ancient Greek, is seeing a surge of interest from younger people who say it offers a meditative and creative escape.

RASCOE: Ms. Brooks has a cursive alphabet up on the wall and says her students are excited to learn it. And the most frequent question she gets at the beginning of each school year is this.