Crappy handwriting

[tulip]

I read an article which said that handwriting analysis is part of the job interview process in France. Guess I'd never find work there.

It is, at least it was 10 years ago when I was job searching there. The cover letters had to be hand written. I even took a course that taught the proper format and margins to maintain. I never got a job over there, so maybe it was because of my handwriting...

I am a landscape architect and city planner, so I have neat printing (architect-like), but my script is not so nice anymore. I think it's because I just don't practice.

[PscyclePath]

It's been a little more than 10 years since I finally finished grad school (chemistry), but all the exams there were essay-style questions, save for when they made me take a couple of the standardized ACS exams toward the end. The vast majority was hand-written, since it's real hard to type all those chemical structures and reaction mechanisms ;-)

I write in a mix of cursive and block-printed letters. My capitals are all block letters and I fill in between with mostly cursive and little squiggles. It's a style I pretty well developed on my own in the first semester of college when I realized that I needed to be able to read my notes after the ink had dried.

[deeaimond]

This is pretty interesting to me because when I was in school here in Singapore, we had some cursory lessons in cursive, but mostly people just print. And I know many many classmates in university who could not write script, only print. (but they do seem to print very fast)
I can't write in print though. takes me forever. I just scrawl.

[evangundy]

One of my highschool classes was Forkner Shorthand (am I dating myself?) and on the final test, I ended the class writing 60wpm. Not fast, but not bad (that was taking the shorthand and then typing it to be read back). But then the teacher gave us one last test - take the notes but NOT use any of the shorthand we had learned - write your own way but still be able to decipher and type it out. I was able to do it at ..... 60wpm. That was the last time I used shorthand. But I do think taking that class is what improved my handwriting, because I had to be able to decipher it to type back what I had written.

I always think I have crappy handwriting (personal mix of written & printed)and apologize when I have to write something out, but then I get told I have great handwriting because it is readable. I think the art of writing in cursive may be slipping away, but there will always be a need for handwriting that is readable.

Edna