It's funny you should mention this. I was about to write something on my Mom's birthday card last Friday when I noticed that my hand wasn't moving. Then it dawned on me...I forgot how to write in cursive. It freaked the hell out of me!
Heh. I'm kind of the opposite. I can't print. If I try to print, after maybe two letters it's back to cursive. But I very rarely write these days. Mainly because my writing looks like crap.
Don't feel bad I cant either, probably because I have not had to since grade school (primary school for you Brits out there). I type just about everything accept forms that need filled out. Working with computers so much I can type practically as fast as I could write something down.
God I feel so much better now. I thought I was one of the few who can't write cursive anymore. The only time I write cursive is when I sign my name or write a check. I can't even begin to explain how much trouble I have with that sometime.
Do they still teach that in school? It seems like a complete waste of time to me. I'm in the category of "Been typing so long, I can barely use a pen or a pencil for anything else than diggin in my ears"
Since I've been a programmer since 1992 and I type all day, I find it frustrating to actually use a pen or pencil.
I'm curious as to the reason the sentence must be written in cursive.
Maybe they also employ handwriting specialists to see if any of you have psychopathic tendencies.
I think it was just as the instructions indicated. If you are accused of cheating, your handwriten statement can be one piece of evidence for or against you.
Many have made the observation that they print and can no longer write cursive. Probably a product of our scientific world. Printing denotes some one who wants to communicate clearly and is sensitive of the needs of the reader. Or it can mean someone who is deceptive in his actions. With a lack of training in handwriting, it could simply be that younger people have never learned cursive.
Your handwriting is your personality. For those who think their illegible signature mades it harder to forge, you are wrong. It is much easier to forge that hard to read signature.
If you ever get the money, take a few pages of your handwriting over to a graphologist and see what kind of analysis he/she gives you.
I have found it fun to analyze handwriting. Some people are fascinated and can't get enough of my analysis. Some all but run in the opposite direction.
I took a upgrade course at university a couple of years back and one of the assigments as a few long answer questions. Since it was due at the end of class there wasn't an option to use a computer so I had to write them out (several pages worth) What really annoyed me was the fact that there wasn't a spell checker. couldn't cut and paste thoughts and it hurt my wrists writing that much! Not to mention I had to rewrite it all out so the teacher could read it....I'd much rather type it since I can probable type faster then I can write now.
I don't use spellcheck often with things that I type up (it tends to not affect whatever I'm writing, my spelling is pretty good), so I don't see why we're not allowed to type more in school. With typing, you can get more accomplished in a shorter period of time and can arrange things better. If you write out a paragraph and then remember that you missed a few sentences from the last paragraph, you have to either use arrows to arrange what you've written or you need to erase the second paragraph and then write it all over again. It's a lot easier to fix in typing.