Handwriting Talk

My handwriting is a mixture of print & cursive...probably "against the rules of writing", lol

I was taught cursive, but chose print. My signature is 100% readable, it's my name LOL not a scribble :-P
I have to write somethings in college, and i write my grocery list and workouts haha.

I write in cursive, right handed.. I spend alot of my working day writing- I look after young people with autism who have data book and we need to write a paragraph or so for each hour of the day.. I adore my handwriting

I am left-handed. I handwrite at least one hour a day... I write in both cursive and print, I have a real signature, and I do not "hook" my hand over the top of the page to write. All of my siblings are left handed and we all write just like a right-handed person would.

With the use of keyboards and texting, less and less communication is done via handwriting. In fact, some schools no longer teach kids how to write in cursive.


How often do you write? Print vs Cursive? What is your signature like? If you are left handed, do you write with your hand upside down?

Discuss.

I generally print, but then I work with Kdg-3rd grade students. I write all the time; I rarely text and, yes, I still write letters. Michigan (where I teach) still has handwriting in the curriculum but it does get put on the back burner because the curriculum is so huge that there just isn't time to do everything. My husband and youger son are both left-handed and I have had many left-handed students and none of them have the inverted hand position that used to be so common. I haven't seen that hand position for many years.

I work with kids now in an after school program and while helping some of the 4th graders with their homework I noticed that they can't write in cursive. I was shocked that in 4th grade they haven't been taught. I was thinking we started in 3rd grade when I was young. I never really thought about technology being involved with this.

I love to write. My sister and I still write letters even though we type to each other all the time. I write cursive for speed and I print when I want it to look pretty. My signature is very legible. When my husband signs his name however you get the first letter of his first name and the rest is just chicken scratch. To each their own!

I write in cursive. I like my handwriting. My signature is pretty literate - but not easy to copy!! Lol..

I work on computers all day, as do all of my work mates. When I have to get someone to hand write something I am usually shocked at how childish their handwriting is. Given that most of the people in my dept are 10 yrs or more younger than me, I think it must be something to do with their schooling in writing.

For me (early 40's) handwriting was very important in school.

Another thing that really annoys me is when I get an email in "text" language. Or an email with no punctuation what so ever.. Have people forgotten about full stops, commas or capital letters... Gggrrr.. So unprofessional..

I think the importance of reading and writing are being forgotten.. Most people I know don't read books?? I find that shocking.. I'd be lost without a book. I've thousands of them. I love the other "life" they give me.. Books are always better that the film - mainly because your imagination is better than anything else.. Plus you learn so much from books..

And the more you read, the more you realise how important punctuation is..

Whine over with.. Love handwriting.. Love finding letters my father wrote (he passed away 14 yrs ago).. Its like its a piece of him still here.. And old letters written by grandparents etc.. Something real in their handwriting.. Treasures to me..

Print/cursive hybrid. I dont write nearly as often as I used to so its a touch sloppier anymore. Im a note sender though... try and mail off a couple every week.

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I kind of do a mixture of printing and cursive. I start out printing but sometimes it morphs a little bit. We homeschool and teach cursive to all the kids. My son is left handed and his handwriting is awful! I've been making him do penmanship all year but it doesn't seem to have helped much, lol. We'll keep working on it in the hopes it resembles the English language at some point but right now it looks like some sort of alien writing.

Cursive, my kids all write 'properly' too Handwriting is still a big thing in our schools.

My signature is big and loopy (some might say like the writer!) and have been known to run out of space on legal forms that require signatures. I had to practice for 20 minutes reducing my signature to fit in the teeny boxes they allow you on my passport and driving license

With the use of keyboards and texting, less and less communication is done via handwriting. In fact, some schools no longer teach kids how to write in cursive.


How often do you write? Print vs Cursive? What is your signature like? If you are left handed, do you write with your hand upside down?

Discuss.

I rarely write in cursive, I print most times. I am right handed, but when I write, everything slants to the left. I can't have the paper straight in front of me when I write. I have to turn the paper so the right corner is facing up. It's a real pain because when I have to sign a debit/credit screen, and I can't turn it the way I want it, I scribble like a 6 yr old! lol it My teachers always read my papers last, because they were so hard to read. It 's very neat...just a little unique.

Now my son is left handed. He does write in the classic, left handed, upside down fashion. But, for a guy, he has the neatest handwriting I have ever seen!

I'm right-handed. I write in cursive most of the time. For my signature, it depends on what I'm signing. If it's a letter (yes, I write actual letters to people), I sign with a totally legible signature. If it's a credit card slip or something similar, my first name is legible, but my last name is a scribble.

I can print and write in cursive. I prefer cursive, but most people can't read it - even though it's neat. Young people don't even know... *sigh*

I love to write by hand. I have very neat, precise handwriting with a feminine touch. Most times, my handwriting ends up being a blend of print and cursive.

I am right-handed, but can also write with my left since I had a boxer's fracture in my right hand in 2006 (yes, a girl with a boxer's fracture :-D )...I can also write upside down :-D