When someone starts to write a letter, he must immediately decide where and how he should form it. In school, we were taught to start with a soft-curving loop and end the same way. This was the Palmer Method. As the writer matures, he usually drops the beginning strokes or develops an individualized beginning stroke, different from what he was taught in school. If he does not, his writing will usually be classed as immature.
Picture writing with beginning strokes. These strokes do not add any significance to the letter or make the word more readable. Adding this unnecessary step to his writing enlarges it, quantitatively but not qualitatively, and thus shows lack of growth.No beginning strokes shows directness, someone who gets right down to the point without commotion. It is the handwriting of the mature individual.