The beauty of the graphic gesture in graphology and expertise

As handwriting is replaced by digital writing, it is losing its specific social function as a medium for passing down written information. In the ongoing process of digitalization of writing, written communication becomes more and more virtual and metaphysical, losing its expressive, grapho-motor, material, and non-verbal character. The teaching-learning processes involving writing are very complex, and today they face new challenges. Due to the homogenizing process of digitalization, new generations tend to lose their manual writing skills and, at the same time, regress in their ability to write using adequate, complete, and correct language (a form of functional illiteracy). We can also observe a progressive loss of handwriting skills caused by the increasing disuse of manual writing. Writing well means positively responding to a teaching-learning method that gives “sense” to manual writing, to its natural expressiveness and creativity, which are typical of human beings. Manual writing, especially cursive writing, should satisfy the implicit requirements of the true, the beauty, and the good, allowing individuals to express their own original and intimate contents, their most authentic potential force. Writing fluency, which is best expressed in cursive and “goes forward without stumbling,” is an important expression of human creativity.