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When I was a child, I had to do what we called at home "les pages d'écriture" ("the writing pages"). Before I was "allowed" to go out and play (a figure of spee
by Jugurtha 9y ago
When I was a child, I had to do what we called at home "les pages d'écriture" ("the writing pages"). Before I was "allowed" to go out and play (a figure of speech, I had every liberty to roam anywhere), I had to write the alphabet on ten pages, following a canonic form. All had to look good, no cheating or I had to write two good pages for one bad page.
This is the "process" my siblings enforced with me, as our parents enforced with them before I was born.
I had new teachers in primary school accuse me of not being the one who did my homework because it was an adult's handwriting. I had to write in front of them to disculpate myself. My handwriting now is not fabulous, but it's legible.
My point is that you can find a canonic form and go at it as you would everything. Systematic improvement, tight feedback loop, continuous corrections.
PS: The "process" was adapted and writing was just a part of it: I had to read texts from books and magazines, look up words I didn't understand in a dictionary (Larousse 89), write them down and learn them, then write a summary of the text, and present it in front of one of my siblings, my sisters (oral summary) and they would test my understanding (the articles were from Science & Vie and dealt with science and engineering, the books were classics in French, and I would try to the best of my ability to summarize and reason by analogy and share my mental model).
This started before going through K-12 and was in addition to homework.