Aug 01 2007
I can’t write
Last night Phaedrah and I were just messing around, and we started trying to write in cursive/longhand on a pad of paper.
After scratching my head a bit–I came to a quick realization that I cannot even use it now. Other than simply signing my name, it’s completely awkward and cumbersome. Even trying to write out a simple sentence took me a minute or so. Phaedrah’s, on the on the other hand; looks perfect.
Which got me to thinking–even my “normal” handwriting (comprised of mostly slop capital block letters) is pretty illegible. I find myself hurrying trying to finish a word, and I’ve come to the conclusion it’s because I can type it far faster and just print it. Writing gets annoying because it’s too slow. When I do have to write something, it gets me annoyed and I try to do it as fast as I can.
Am I the only one who uses a computer so much that simple handwriting is becoming troublesome?
Interesting… I took a pencil and tried to fill an entrire A4 size page with text. It is painful. My hand hurts. I normally jot down points on a notepad but not long texts. My handwriting looks encrypted under normal circumstances. If I try to write faster and for a long period of time might just create a new encryption standard…..
Quite a few people’s handwriting decays from the bad effects of computers and/or half-remembered schoolroom cursive — a difficult style at best, and often counter-productive.
Recent research (JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, May/June 1998) shows that the fastest and most legible handwriters don’t adhere to cursive expectations. Highest-speed highest-legibility handwriters use print-like letter-shapes wherever print and cursive shapes “disagree,” and they join only some, not all, of their letters: making only the easiest joins, and skipping the rest.
For more about this (and opportunities for improving your own handwriting along these lines), visit the Handwriting Repair web-site at http://www.learn.to/handwrite
i have noticed over the past year or so that i have trouble writing the letters ‘c’ and ’s’. its not that i cant do it, its that when i get to those letters my hand pauses and almost glitches and it takes me a second before i can write them. i find myself writing them extremely quickly when i finally can do it.
is there anything i can do about this????