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Hello, my name is Tom Wasylyk and I'm the author of the Universal Handwriting Program,
and today I'm going to demonstrate and discuss a common problem with the lowercase cursive
a, d, g, and q. One of the most common problems with these letters, downcurve beginning letters,
is that students, when writing this, hear "downcurve" and they want to go down, but
don't hear the word curve. Now I want to demonstrate. They will go down, but they don't have enough
curve. So then when they make the undercurve and the rest of the letter they leave the
top of the A open, and usually go back and fill it in like this, which is incorrect.
This is a very common problem. The way we correct this is to make sure that the downcurve
motion slides plenty to the left. Then when you make your undercurve you have a nice oval
shape that is closed, and then you just slant and undercurve. This is the part that we have
to correct to avoid this problem. Again, slide left, curve down, undercurve, slant, undercurve.
That's a very good looking letter! These are the same strokes used in the d, used in the
g, and used in the q. So once we correct the problem here, we won't have the problem in
the other letters. Again, make sure that the downcurve slides to the left, nice undercurve,
slant, and undercurve. This motion is very important on that letter. It's a quick little
technique; it'll help a lot if we demonstrate the downcurve, undercurve, closing the letter.
It's a great technique and I think that your students will improve their writing a lot
if you can demonstrate this and show them.