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Cursive

Style of penmanship

For the Chinese cursive handwriting in calligraphy, see Cursive script (East Asia). For the style of typeface, see Italic type. For the rock band, see Cursive (band).

Cursive (also known as joined-up writing^[1]^[2]) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. It varies in functionality and modern-day usage across languages and regions; being used both publicly in artistic and formal documents as well as in private communication. Formal cursive is generally joined, but casual cursive is a combination of joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as "looped", "italic", or "connected".

The cursive method is used with many alphabets due to infrequent pen lifting and beliefs that it increases writing speed. Despite this belief, more elaborate or ornamental styles of writing can be slower to reproduce. In some alphabets, many or all letters in a word are connected, sometimes making a wo

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Joined-up Writing!

“Hey, look at his handwriting”, said a lady, peering over my shoulder. It’s so small and neat, and it’s in straight lines”.

Wendy and I were at the annual conference of the Christian Dental Fellowship. We go most years, and meet up with old friends, and usually make one or two new ones. The main speaker amalgamates (sorry!) our Christian faith and our chosen career, dentistry, and gives a presentation that is relevant to both. A number of us are retired, but we will forever be dentists! The fellowship also sponsors several of those who feel called to work abroad in mission hospitals, where the needs of the local people are almost unbelievable. One of those working in Africa showed us a number of slides, including those of tumours of the face, head and neck, which were quite appalling. “Look away now, if you like”, he would say, before showing a slide of a girl with a tumour which was almost identical in size to her head. She had probably walked for 3 days to reach the mission hospital, and the skill and dedication of those working there, in removing

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The curse of cursive: Are we fetishising joined up writing?

Back in 2008 I had for a Head of English position. At one point during the morning, candidates were asked what aspect of English education was most important to them. I honestly have no memory of what I came up with, but I do remember another candidate saying that for him it was handwriting. He failed to make the cut.

Handwriting really doesn’t matter that much in most secondary schools. As long as pupils’ writing isn’t an illegible scrawl, teachers tend not to care too much about what it looks like. But this isn’t the case in primary schools. My daughters both have beautiful handwriting, and take real pride in making sure what they write looks good. And I’m impressed with this even though my own handwriting leaves something to be desired. I mean, it’s not like I don’t care, and it’s not as if looks like someone’s smudged a spider across the page, but beautiful it ain’t.

In last week’s post on Slow Writing, Hugo Kerr (author of a really excellent free e-