The word “penmanship “

For this week I choose a particular world that is unusual  to be used to describe someone, the world “penmanship” form the reading Coming to an awareness of language by Malcolm X grab my attention and help me understand the text. In the reading Malcolm X mention that “[he] saw that the best thing [he] could do was get hold of a dictionary to study, to learn some words [and he] was lucky enough to reason also that [he] should try to improve [his] penmanship” (paragraph 11). Now the world “penmanship” means “the art of writing with the pen” according to Merriam Webster dictionary, with this source of information I fully understand the text, as simple as it sounds “penmanship” is just means handwriting which did confuse me at first since I never heard of it before. I now understand that Malcolm X wanted to improve he’s handwriting and I could say my penmanship needs some improvement as well.