Organization of the learning process is impossible without stationery. Today on the market there are many writing instruments of different price categories. You can purchase pens, pencils, erasers, sharpeners and much more, both individually and in sets.
A bit of history
The concept of "office supplies" comes from the word "office". In the Middle Ages, the chancellery was a special place where scribes, under the control of the chancellor, prepared orders, legislative acts and other documents. Today, the office in any institution or organization is a department dealing with document management and paperwork.
It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact date when pens and stationery appeared. Each type of stationery has its own special history of occurrence. Around the 19th century, stationery ceased to be the property of only clerks and began to be widely used in training, in household chores. We can say that at this time writing instruments became part of the culture and etiquette of society. It is becoming fashionable and correct to effectively sign invitations and cards, conduct business and personal correspondence, using stationery inventions.
What do you need?
As already noted, writing instruments have become part of written etiquette since the 19th century. Since that time, they have evolved significantly from an ink pen to an automatic one and have become widespread thanks to the advertising of convenient writing devices. Today it is unthinkable to imagine life without the usual ballpoint pens, pencils, felt-tip pens, highlighters.
School supplies include:
- pens;
- pencils;
- corrector;
- hole punchers;
- staplers;
- envelopes;
- clerical glue;
- rulers;
- markers;
- paper clips;
- erasers;
- notebooks;
- Files
- sharpeners;
- compasses;
- felt-tip pens.
Grouping
The entire office needed to study at school can be conditionally divided into groups:
- Paper media are notebooks, diaries, gliders, notebooks, cardboard, colored paper, as well as paper with a special texture or highlight - graph paper, tracing paper, carbon paper. All these types of paper products help with the training and organization of the educational process.
- Stationery organizers - this includes coasters for stationery, glasses, vertical and horizontal paper drives, notebooks. All these devices help maintain order in the working area of the table and relieve chaos.
- Accessories for organizing and organizing materials are folders of various sizes (large recorders and small envelopes), folders, covers for notebooks. They help to keep and keep papers in a decent, tidy form.
- Devices for working with documents are staplers, hole punch, brackets, buttons, proofreaders, clamps, glue. Such accessories for the desk will be useful to senior students in the preparation of essays, reports.
- Materials for creativity are school supplies used by students in drawing classes for creativity. It can be curly scissors, rulers with patterns or figures, colored pencils, paints, plasticine, brushes, palettes, boards.
- Writing instruments - pens, pencils, felt-tip pens, highlighters.
Manufacturers Overview
Stationery today produces a lot of companies. When buying pens, pencils and other written trifles, not many pay attention to manufacturers, as customers often think that this is not such an important point. Moreover, schoolchildren, especially young children, often lose pencils, pens, pencil cases, and parents have to buy writing sets several times in the school year. In order to choose the most convenient and ergonomic stationery for your child, you should learn more about the manufacturers. Many of them focus on the durability of their products, their wear resistance. Although in fairness it is worth noting that pens, rulers and pencils are consumables for students, and the loss and breakage of these items is part of the normal school life of any student.
Parents, children and professionals most often still prefer to buy stationery issued by trusted companies:
- Bic - French-made writing accessories with a reasonable price and user-friendly design.
- Stabilio - produces attractive ergonomic stationery (pens, pencils, highlighters).
- Parker - pens, famous for their sophistication and reliability, are expensive for everyday use at school.
- Pilot - a Japanese brand that has been present on the market for about 100 years, produces an ergonomic and neat office.
- Erich Krause is a Russian company that has been working for about 20 years and produces gel pens of an unusual design.
This is not a complete list of manufacturers of stationery and writing accessories, because in fact there are a lot of them, and in shopping centers and small second-hand bookshops you can find a huge variety of goods of various companies.
Writing Accessory Kits
Many companies offer to purchase all writing materials in ready-made sets. This saves time and eliminates the need to select everything in a single style, which is especially important for girls, children for the first time going to school. Interesting and useful among them are:
- First-grader kits - such kits include not only items for writing, but also notebooks, paper, cardboard, glue, scissors and much more that is needed for training first-graders (produced by ArtSpace, Erich Krause).
- Stationery sets - include colored pencils, erasers, notebooks, bookmarks (LEGO).
- Gift stationery sets - beautiful and elegant stationery stands are more suitable for students and business people.
Where to get
Today, quality stationery can be purchased both in large hypermarkets and in tiny newsstands. There are also specialized stores that offer a very rich selection of office supplies of various kinds. In such stores you can buy not only writing instruments, but also other goods needed for school life: pencil cases and briefcases, folders and drives, paints, books and original creative kits. Here you can find calculators, slate and marker boards. In specialized stores you can always get more competent advice and help in choosing writing sets or compiling them from different objects.
Reviews
According to customer reviews, 70% of people do not attach much importance to brands or firms when choosing writing instruments. The main reference point when buying is a beautiful bright appearance of pens, notebooks, pencils and a low price. Parents of younger schoolchildren prefer to purchase office supplies in kits, believing that this will help to teach children to order and order. Most parents consider it unreasonable to spend money on an expensive office, since during the school year a lot is lost and broken. The best option is to buy immediately duplicate items (pens, pencils, rulers) of a cheap price segment.