Personal Narrative: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog

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In part 1, I wrote the phrase “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” with my dominant(left) hand. My writing was small, neat, and concise with a slight slant to the left due to my left-handedness. In part 2, I wrote the same phrase but with my eyes closed. The writing was small and concise as before but the overall sentence itself was not straight due to my hand drifting from the page. This happened due to me being unable to see where to begin writing my letters. In part 3, I wrote the phrase again but this time with my non-dominant hand. Each letter was sloppy and inconsistent. The size of each letter was not the same. In part 4, I wrote the phrase with my non-dominant hand and with my eyes closed. The sentences were very sloppy and all over the place. The word sizes were not the same and the sentence began running into each other due to me not being able to see where I need to place the pencil to start a new word. Sometimes the letters would overlap as well. …show more content…

I tried to carefully construct each word so the sentences could be neat but in parts 2 and 4, that goal was not reached successfully.

The changes in my handwriting were due to differences in muscle memory and visual motor mapping. When performing the lab with my eyes closed I could not see where to place my pencil on the paper, therefore changing the structure of my writing due to visual differences. When I wrote with my nondominant hand, my handwriting changed due to me not having the consistent practice to map my motor skills for writing thus changing the structure of my writing. My perceptual-action map is linked to the sensory input of visual stimulation allowing me to properly act and write

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