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I was just reading another thread about cursive vs. printing and it got me curious. When I was in school cursive writing was a huge deal and we were expected to use it on all hand-written essays. But I know tons of people who either weren't taught cursive long enough for it to stick, or who learned cursive but got so messy with it that they just went back to printing. And now I hear schools are debating whether to teach it at all.
So, Bees, tell me, what's the state of your cursive?
Mine turned to chickenscratch by grade 7 from scribbling down notes super quickly, but by university I was starting to take more care with it and now (if I do say so myself) it's pretty beautiful. I gave my printing an overhaul while I was at it too.
Most of the time now I write in a printing/cursive hybrid, but on notecards and letters I always go fancy.
Mine is AWFUL.
My printing is really neat, but my cursive? My 5-year old niece could do better.
Honestly, I hate even signing my name because it looks like a child signed for me.
I always write in cursive and people comment on it often. My printing actually looks like a 12 year old boy was writing since I very rarely use it. My cursive is very nice if I do say so myself.
Funny thing is that when I was a child, my printing was absolutely horrible. My grandmother used to make me practice constantly because she said that you couldn't even read it. I started to learn cursive in 2nd grade (yay catholic school). Everyone agreed that my cursive was way better than my printing. Later on in life, I combined the two. Half cursive/half printing. Hey, it worked. Now my cursive is just okay and my printing (from what I'm told) is absolutely neat and looks almost like I've typed it from a computer. Don't ask me how that happened.
I was never taught cursive in school so I've always printed and it's pretty messy but not illegible. Actually one time I spoke with a handwritting expert, (for work), who told me that the messier a person's writting is the more likely that they are an independant thinker. They do what works for them as opposed to following the rules of what they were taught. That made me feel slightly better about my writting.
I never learned cursive in school, so I never use it! My printing is usually very neat and it's always legible, even if I am taking notes quickly. However, I've always felt like my handwriting isn't very "adult" since I can't write in cursive! Maybe I'll start practicing...
My cursive is actually better than my printing...but I teach second grade, so I've had to get better at printing. With our new handwriting curriculum, cursive is introduced at the very end of second grade or beginning of third.
I love cursive writing! It's not my first choice, but I use it to write in my journal... which I haven't done in a really long time. I think mine looks fine. It's not the best in the world, but it's pretty good.
Learning cursive was the BIG DEAL in third grade haha. Actually after that I was homeschooled and the program we used through 8th grade required handwritten, cursive papers to be sent in. No computer-written papers for me! I mostly write in cursive now, and all my thank-yous will be. But sometimes I lapse and write in print too.
My regular writing is a mix between printing and cursive, I really love it and everyone always comments on how pretty it is. My "proper" cursive is actually pretty bad tough haha
Mine is horrible-should have been a doctor. It's that illegible. Printing and cursive both unfortunately. I was always so jealous of other girls who seemed to have the most beautiful handwriting.
But yeah, I hear it's going the way of the VHS so I don't have to worry about it too much anymore. I did write my own thank notes though and it looked like a four year old scratched them out. lol
I was taught to write in cursive, but NO one can read it when I do! So now I print.
Mine is awful. I find myself doing half cursive and half printing while writing.
I teach grade 5 and allow them to use it, but I just want to be able to read what they write. I use it as an enrichment at times, but it's a bit of a lost art around here.
I write with a combination of print and cursive.. more print than cursive though. I like my cursive but I like my combo penmanship better.
I've always had neat handwriting, but I very rarely write in cursive anymore with the exception of signing my name. It's usually a combination of print/cursive.
I don't usually toot my own horn , but I have got some really nice handwriting. :) lol
My teachers first question to me during penmanship was: Is your dad a Doctor?
Everything sucks, print or cursive. I got put in special penmanship classes with weird pencil grips and drills. It just didn't work out.
I change my print style throughout the years. I see one I like and mimic it. I alter my slants all the time, sizes, letter shaping etc.
I have quite nice cursive, if I do say so myself, but my printing is pretty terrible. FI has the worst handwriting though, its a mix of capital and lowercase letters, all different sizes, and never in a straight line. lol.
I pride myself on my neat handwriting - both print and cursive! It's one of the few things I do really well haha
After writing my notes, I realized that my printing is TERRIBLE. My cursive on the other hand is just ew.
I had extensive lessons in cursive but it never did much of any good. My cursive looks like that of a doctor or a third grader, take your pick. And my printing is not much better, chicken scratches is a term I've heard applied to it. Although both have always been sadly lacking, I think they've depreciated since college because 97% of everything I ever write is on computer and so I'm woefully out of practice!
I always get yelled at at work because I write in cursive. I NEVER print. I seroiusly have to FORCE myself to print and it looks like a child is writing when I do. I love writing in cursive, I think it's beautiful.
I used to have terrible handwriting in general... So I literally copied some notes of a few friends of mine and came up with my own much neater handwriting... Since then I typically write in a cursive/print mix or i'll start printing and end up in cursive because I think it's easier.
I'm also left handed, not sure if this is a common thing for lefties. I'll try and post a pic later... I think I have pretty good handwriting now... But back when I was a kid it was chicken scratch!!
I have really bubbly, big print handwriting, I always think it looks like a pre-teen girl's love note to Justin Bieber or something. I actually really prefer my cursive writing, which looks neater and more grown up.
I learned cursive in 3rd grade (public school). I use a combination of cursive and print now. For example, my last name starts with L, but I hate the cursive L...so I just use a fancy print version.
I started learning cursive in 2nd grade and always hated it. I remember our teachers telling us how as we got older and entered middle school / high school / college that everyone used cursive.
I stopped writing anything but my signature in cursive as soon as teachers quit requiring it (aka like 4th grade). I don't know a single person my age who writes in cursive consistently.
I get compliented on my printing though! :)
I use cursive a lot... i don't know if it's good or not because I never have anyone else's to compare it to. LOL. I do the cursive print hybrid usually though so I'm guessing mine is not that great.
I hardly use it. But I was actually absent in third grade the day we learned "G", so I still have difficulty with it to this day!!
I love cursive--I stopped using it for a while because I used a lot of shorthand but my handwriting was abysmal then. I use it now because my writing is neater and more attractive.
I know they are jettisoning a lot of stuff in school curricula, but I babysit two kids who are in 4th grade and their handwriting is worse than a kindergartner's. Many times their teachers won't even read their essays because they are completely illegible. Handwriting should at least be a standard, if not a separate subject in school.
Writing all of my notes throughout my university degrees made my cursive messier but super fast! I can write cursive almost as fast as I can type. I always found writing out lecture notes made the info stick in my head better than when I took a laptop to class - not sure why.
When I take my time it looks ok - I'm always super jealous of those with beautiful handwriting, though. My friend did handmade invites to her wedding a few years ago and they were lovely.
My normal handwriting is a print/cursive hybrid, and I can be really sloppy with it (as when scribbling notes to myself or making a grocery list, etc.) or really neat with it (as when writing a card or something similar for someone else). I was taught cursive in school and can still write in it pretty neatly, but it just takes so long and I never really have a need for it -- my normal handwriting is good enough for "formal" things. My signature is kind of just a scribble so even it isn't really cursive anymore, though it started as such.
ooooh, my cursive is terrible. my print's not too good either. XP i feel like i should have really good motor control and amazing hand writint because i draw so often, but nope. instead, i can make pretty pictures, but my handwriting is often near-illegable. and that's why i hate having to do hand-written things like thank you notes. ettique-shemettique! no one will be able to read my thank yous anyways! XP
on the other hand, i'm pretty good at drawing out typography (as in writing letters to look as if they are part of a specific font family) but that takes forever, so i only use that when painting a picture that needs typography.
My cursive writing gets compliments all the time. I've been writing in cursive since I was in 1st grade. (my mom started teaching me when i was really young). My print? yeah, it kind of sucks.
I read a article from Slate.com a while ago about handwriting, so I looked it up to share: http://www.slate.com/id/2227680/ I thought it was interesting.
I hate cursive, and I don't get the point of it. It takes me longer to write in cursive, and I find it harder to read as well. Plus, I took Russian in high school, and we were required to use cursive Cyrillic on assigments (whereas in my non-language subjects I could just print), so my hand got used to writing the Cyrillic versions of some letters, which are slightly different. So anytime I tried to do cursive in English, I couldn't stop myself from doing it the wrong way.
Now, my printing can get somewhat cursive-like with a few letters, in that I don't pick up the pencil between them, but they still look more like the print version of letters than the weird cursive version. (What's with cursive capital G's, for example? They look nothing like the letter G.)
I think my writing is quite nice. It's not beautifully amazing but it's not bad either.
I almost never make a definable difference between "cursive" and "printing" except on legal documents or things where they specifically ask you to print in capital letters.
I think it's sad that so many people's writing is so horrible.
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