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| NB Canada. March 21 2011 01:39. Posts 6999 | Profile Blog # |
you should buy the stuff that they used for kindergardern and practice letter by letter if you hv time.
else, just try to rewrite poems slowly and neatly as much as possible. I doubt university exams will care bout hand writting unless it is un-readable. |
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| cheeseyesplz United Kingdom. March 21 2011 01:41. Posts 82 | Profile # |
If you have been writing that way for years then I really think it will be hard for you to change.
Personally I don't see the point putting this on top of all the revision you are probably doing as well.
My handwriting has gone a LOT worse than what it was when I was a child too.
It won't affect anything in the exam as long as it's legible.
I'm hoping typing will become the norm in the future. Faster, easier and no complications with how tidy it is (unless you choose some wacky font)  |
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 micronesia United States. March 21 2011 01:58. Posts 19342 | Profile Blog # |
| Post a writing sample. How do you hold a pen/pencil? |
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| Enervate United States. March 21 2011 02:04. Posts 1766 | Profile # |
| Do you print or write in cursive? Usually it's easier to write more legibly if you print. |
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| niteReloaded Croatia. March 21 2011 02:07. Posts 4862 | Profile Blog # |
Since when does anyone give a shit about this?
If it's not good enough to be read, just be mindful about it and it'll be better.
If you're wanting to change just for the sake of getting a better handwriting, you can try writing with the opposite hand, and learn from scratch.. |
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| Dalguno United States. March 21 2011 02:11. Posts 2298 | Profile Blog # |
My problem with my handwriting is the space I put between the letters, and keeping their size uniform. Could that be a problem?
A sample would help. |
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| MiniRoman Canada. March 21 2011 02:18. Posts 3953 | Profile Blog # |
| I started printing in university awhile ago. I noticed mine improving over the last couple weeks as I've been trying to draw better. Iunno, more controlled and conscious movements is the only way to improve something you do naturally. |
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| RedJustice United States. March 21 2011 03:13. Posts 999 | Profile Blog # |
I have consciously changed my handwriting several times over the years. Generally I found someone else's handwriting that I admired, and mimicked it bit by bit until I had something similar (never exactly the same, but that's alright.) The trick is to do it slowly, one or two letters at a time. Like-- oh, they do a T this way, and their e looks short and fat (or whatever). This of course assumes that by handwriting, you mean cursive.
If you mean print, I would suggest those kindergarten practice books that have you copy out each letter precisely. It's a bit tedious, but it works.
Sample, as everyone else said, would be helpful. |
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| Feijichang China. March 21 2011 03:14. Posts 167 | Profile # |
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| JeeJee Canada. March 21 2011 03:19. Posts 5331 | Profile Blog # |
my handwriting is pretty bad, but it's just good enough to be quite legible
also, it lets me read almost anyone else's handwriting with ease by comparison^^
really, i think niteReloaded nailed it: if people can read it, nobody cares |
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| wakpark United States. March 21 2011 03:33. Posts 166 | Profile Blog # | |
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| Adeeler United Kingdom. March 21 2011 04:04. Posts 762 | Profile Blog # |
I have a 'trick' you can use. Use a 'cheap' fountain pen. Not one of the ones with rounded tips that allows for any direction movement i.e. Parker pens but the cheapo ones with vertical tips. This causes you to write the straight parts of letters very straight and your curves are much more measured as to not twist the tip of the pen.
Might work, might not. Otherwise just practice using memory retention timings with lettered boxes and you can overwrite your original handwriting memories.
Memory timings, practice something then practice it again with a break inbetween, increasing the break between if you where successful in that practice session else reset to the previous practice repetition time.
I find you should use these times personally: practice, then 15mins after, 45mins, 2hrs, 6hrs, 12hrs, 1day, 2d, 4d, 7d, 1week, 1week, 2w,4w,8w,16w,32w etc
You should have overwritten your original memories well before then but this is useful for sending something into your longterm memory virtually guaranteed. There are apps to help you with the timings i.e. Anki etc. |
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 TheNessman United States. March 21 2011 04:07. Posts 4157 | Profile Blog # |
life is so hard...
The other day, both of my ta's came up to me and were like "you need to work on your handwriting"
I have no idea how to improve. Bad handwriting 4lyfe i guess. |
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| pppppppppp Singapore. March 21 2011 04:13. Posts 236 | Profile # |
so i don't really have any good tips except what someone mentioned, print your letters? i print, my writing isn't pretty by a long shot, but it's legible. that's really all that matters.
bad handwriting is one of my pet peeves. i hate it when i can't read writing, it frustrates me to no end. and you know the stereotype that doctors have terrible handwriting? it's totally true. i struggle to decipher the writing in the majority of case records i'm trying to read. and it's incredibly inefficient. i've witnessed on several instances doctors having to call each other to clarify what was written in the case records.
worst part, my girlfriend's writing is terrible. haha. it's one of the things i always nag at her about. sometimes i try to read from her notes (she's a lot more conscientious about her studies than i am) and it's a real chore.
and recently, i went down to a travel agent to help her settle some travel insurance stuff because she was wasn't free to do it herself, and there was some issue where they couldn't find her application on the system, and after a while we realised they made a small typo in her name because they couldn't really make out what she wrote on the application form. i was like FFFUUUUUUUU
sorry to go off-topic abit with the ranting, but yeah.. i applaud your effort to try to improve your writing. everybody should make an effort to write legibly! |
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 tofucake United States. March 21 2011 04:17. Posts 11465 | Profile Blog # |
I changed my writing style considerably a few times (and by considerably I mean just a few letters and numbers). When I wanted to change my style, I consciously wrote the things I was trying to write every time. Overall my writing speed slowed quite a bit, but after a while I'd retrained myself and returned to full speed, which was actually a bit faster than before as I trained myself to write letters with fewer strokes.
I guess I should also mention that I used exclusively pens for the past 8 years or so unless pencils were mandated (SATs, and other similar fill-in-the-circle type mass-tests).
My current style is a blend of cursive and block. It naturally evolved from block as I was never a fan of cursive. As I got older a lot of my letters ran together and became more fluid. Some of my letters actually look a lot like cursive now, although the stroke order is different from what I learned when I was younger. My lowercase s for example, is almost identical to how it's "supposed" to look in cursive.Last edit: 2011-03-21 04:24:04 |
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| Weasel- Canada. March 21 2011 04:27. Posts 914 | Profile # |
| You will really really have to force yourself to change your "font" to whatever it is you want it to be. If at first you decide to mindlessly just write and hope it gets better it won't work. Consistently write in the style that you want and practice it, then gradually increase your speed while writing in that "font". It will require a major conscious effort at first, but after a while you will be able to work on it mechanically. |
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| ChefStarCraft Canada. March 21 2011 05:44. Posts 350 | Profile Blog # |
| I have chicken scratch, but I've seen allot of people write in my time, and when I take my time I can write quite well. Just focus and take your time, soon it will become a force of habit. |
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| hp.Shell United States. March 21 2011 05:59. Posts 1637 | Profile Blog # |
Being in engineering for several years my handwriting has improved a ton just on its own. I think this is partly due to having to draw free body diagrams of objects and the straight-line arrows that indicate the directions of the forces acting on those objects. Being in high level math classes hasn't hurt either: all those funky symbols like integrals and summations are pretty hard to draw at first. Really though, in engineering we're expected to draw straight lines and nearly perfect circles, and me hating to use a ruler I've gotten quite good at making freeform greatness appear on paper. Then on the seldom occasion I actually write words instead of symbols or diagrams or numbers, I'm amazed at how improved and precise my letters are with so little specific practice. I write in print, by the way. Cursive never sat very well with me.
If you want to practice straight lines you can start by holding your pencil in such a way that the outside edge of your palm rests on the corner of the desk or table. Then move your whole arm down the table, using your shoulder and elbow joints to move and keeping your wrist firm and unmoving. If that doesn't work you can try the same technique with your pinky pointing along the table's edge. Drawing straight lines this way is really easy. When you get good at it you'll be able to draw straight lines 90% of the time you want to without even having your hand on the edge of the table. The other 10% you use your eraser** and get it on the second try. Again, I don't know if this will help with cursive, but it certainly helps with print.
Edit: **used to say ruler, meant eraserLast edit: 2011-03-21 06:03:18 |
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