Handwriting: Cursive or Unjoined?

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When writing do you do your writing Cursive, or Unjoined?

Cursive
22
37%
Unjoined
37
63%
 
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Mine's 99% cursive and it looks pretty meat without ruled kinds even if I do say so myself.
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I write very small, but it's usually just standard lettering (none o' that fancy cursive stuff). It's neat, regardless, it just takes me longer to write in cursive. Even so, my letters seem to stick together when I'm writing quickly, so I just have a gigantic blob of text.
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I'm probably the weird one. I used to write unjoined until second grade, when my teacher told everyone to write in cursive. We used the Nelson books, and for the next couple of years, cursive stuck with me. But then, my teacher in sixth grade told me that this method's wrong, so then I switched to that method, and stuck with it until summer holiday in eighth grade when I turned back to unjoined. Nowadays (summer holiday of ninth grade) I write in a mix, only writing cursive with certain letters and leaving the rest of them unjoined.

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True story...

At this church retreat, the pastor was reading some stuff that we had written. Anyway, I had written something that I had NOT realized it was going to be read out loud. Anyway, he starts reading it and stops with a strange expression. "I can't read this," he said.

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Sooo... um...

I mainly do joined print. Because, really, print is the only handwriting that I can read. My cursive is AWFUL. Like, I can't read it at all. And nobody else can. Why? Because it pretty much looks like jagged lines. It's awful.
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XD *vote #51*

Anyway, I also join the two! But it's mostly print. My i's and e's are usually connected, as well as the tail-end of l's and t's. m's and n's are as well. My g's, q's, and y's are usually the end of any trail of letters. I can't carry over their tails; it just looks bad. xD I hate cursive capital J's with a passion though, lemme just say. I handle Z's and Q's better than J's. xD
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I grew up with one of the world's worst pencil grips, making cursive incredibly dificult, and I thus I only know how to write the letters of my name in cursive (G, e, n, o, l, and yes, in the upper/lower case I've typed them in here. Only capitals I know are G and C, the others only lower case). I've always written in clear printing. However, I still remember well enough learning that capital letters are seperated, regular letters are connected.

And I'm not kidding about the pencil grip. Nobody can imitate it, and I still think it looks awkward. Nobody taught me how to hold a pencil, I found out myself. Apparentely, not a good method. And for whatever reason, I prefer writing in pencil than I do typing a lot of the time. For poetry, lyrics, and short stories, anyways. But that covers a majority. A mildly uncomftorable looking majority.

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