(2015)<p>The book he mentions, <i>Teach Yourself Better Handwriting</i> by Rosemary Sassoon is very good. Most handwriting books give you a model to copy, but her focus is on analyzing and improving your natural handwriting.<p>It is typical for people to see their handwriting improve upon switching to a fountain pen. I believe this is because a fountain pen encourages you to hold it so that the strokes to make good letter shapes come with less effort.