Why was Cursive handwriting developed?
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to fit more text on a single sheet and because it simply looked good
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Sometime during the 10th century AD a new alphabet appeared which was known as Cyrillic and named after St Cyril. It was possibly invented by St Kliment of Ohrid, a missionary in Bulgaria. The Cyrillic alphabet was used to write the Old Church Slavonic language and was later adapated to write many other languages.
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I used to have terrible handwriting.  Eventually I got super-conscious about it when a boyfriend I had in middle-school had better handwriting then me.\n\nI started to study handwriting on the chalkboard written by my classmates.  I also made more of an effort on my own personal neatness.  I eventually developed my own "style". \n\nMy signature focuses on my initials.  The first letter of each of my names is the neatest, while thre rest of the name tends to go flat.  However, whenever I just initial something....well....that's another matter of discussion.
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penmanship is the style of writing i think
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It's supoosed to group the most commonly used letters together  in a way that speeds up typing. However, some people say it was made that way simply to make it harder to learn how to type, back when good typing skills was a marketable skill.
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In Rome, scribes wrote on papyrus (an early form of paper) with a thin metal rod called a stylus, which left a light but readable mark. Other early styluses were made of lead. Today we still call the core of a pencil the "lead" even though it is made from nontoxic graphite.  (Lead is toxic and leaches right through your skin, so it's not a great choice for a writing implement!)\n\nGraphite came into widespread use following the discovery of a large graphite deposit in Borrowdale, England in 1564. Graphite left a darker mark than lead, but was so soft and brittle that it required a holder. At first, sticks of graphite were wrapped in string. Later, the graphite was inserted into wooden sticks that had been hollowed-out by hand! The wood-cased pencil was born.
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Writers dipped their pens in ink so when they wrote there was often a puddle of ink on the paper that would take a long time to dry.  The sand was sprinkled on the ink so as to soak up the excess, and then was shaken off.  Writing was a slow complicated process back then.
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No one really knows.  The caveman had a type of writing in the pictograms s(he) painted on cave walls.  Native Americans used what amounts to grafitti thousands of years ago.  Most likely writing grew out of the need to communicate with people not immediately present, so marking a dangerous location with a warning symbol, or a promising hunting ground with a picture of wild game.  Gradually this became more refined.  Evidence of this developement remains in modern Chinese which uses a series of pictograms as an alphabet.
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first you would need to consider the language that is being used. we might think we have the answer only to find that paragraphs were in use in some language we're not familiar with.\n\ni think there may have been a tradition of marking paragraphs with dots or lines before our tradition of using indents came about.\n\nso, we have moveable type being used for german texts after 1400. paragraphs (as we know them) were not used in Gutenberg's Bible of 1455. But it looks like they might have used colored capital letters to mark the beginning of new paragraphs - maybe this dervied from the scribes. obviously, there was a long scribal tradition that predated Gutenberg, but if we assume that they used no (indented) paragraphs then we can look for the answer after Gutenberg.\n\nby around 1465 nicolas jenson was printing beautiful books using a roman alphabet that looks much like ours - i can't find any info on whether they used paragraphs like we do. there are plenty of books with photos of jenson's work, but almost nothing on the web about it.\n\ngreat question.
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It was used for decorative purposes, much like on the front of our Supreme Court building or other buildings where we have written displays.  The architect simply chose a font familiar to him that he liked.  Usually these were of the "Latin" or "Roman" varieties.  There are simply tens of thousands of fonts with more coming out daily.  I recommend getting a program like like a "Font Viewer" and seeing what is on your own computer.  If not, go to Best Buy, Wal-Mart or another store and get a computer disc with like 5,000 fonts for $9.99 and install it and look for yourself.\n\nGood luck.
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Hiya :-) ! Hmmm, good question. I suppose that, when the examiners compare handwritings, the details provide them with the truth. Also, usually a person cannot totally hide their character as they move around in the world. So, before committing the crime, if the handwriting indeed is a confirmation of character, the guilty person will not have been able to adapt their handwriting i.e. character onto the other's he/she wants to fool in the future, etc. I suppose everyone has signed somewhere and written documents before... so there always is proof that the handwriting was different in case of doubt? This link might help you... Have a nice day/evening!
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Practice, Practice, Practice.\n\nThat's the ONLY way I know how. \n\nMy 11 yr old son (5th grader) HATES cursive writing also. This year I had his teacher get him 2nd/3rd grade cursive writing practice sheets. Starting from the beginning, Capital A, Lowercase a, etc. So far this has worked WONDERS! YOU can now READ his cursive handwriting. It's just not a bunch of mismatched letters!\n\n(I also did the practice sheets with him. Writing/Practicing just as many times as he had to. Working at this together has made him work just a bit harder.)\n\nNow for HIS printing...... That's OUR next task at hand! It's like trying to read a DOCTORS Handwriting! Indistinguishable!\n\nAlso, I think, Taking your time. Think before your write. Concentrate when moving your pen/pencil. \n\nWriting a little big bigger works too. My kindergartener writes BIG. Concentrating on what he is doing. Then following thru with the actually written work. Working SLOW also helps struggling kids with cursive writing.\n\nMaybe take it a little at a time. Do one paragraph, rest, then onto the next one. Proof read your work. Even have another parent/sibling/friend look at your work helps too.
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In the computer age, it might seem as though proper penmanship is becoming less important with each passing day.\n\nYet sloppy handwriting can hurt students' academic performance, from their class grades to their scores on standardized tests such as the SATs, experts say.\n\nThese links should give you all the information you need.
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I had dreadful handwriting as a child (poor fine motor control) and later became a teacher who had passive to better-than-average handwriting (it never became great).  The first thing is, no one was able to help me with my handwriting, and nagging me about it would have made me not even bother trying.  Second, it gets a lot better naturally around middle school when teachers don't force you to write a particular way (cursive vs. printing) so long as it is neat and you develop your own "handwriting" which will be likely a mix of both.  Having said that, what I did around her age was made myself extra credit out of it.  I made up a "cursive castle" game I did by merely practicing letters on a castle I drew out.  If she's into something, maybe she wouldn't mind decorating it with isolated letters so as to practice formation.  Next, I would recommend trying something like knitting (to start...it's easier to learn than most needlecraft), latchhook, or ideally counted or stamped cross-stitch to develop fine motor control.  This helped me a lot and as my motor control improved, so did my handwriting.  In the end, remember, she has to have motivation to learn to write more neatly and since, in this day and age, computers are honestly the most viable option, she will probably be harder to self-motivate than I was.  Good luck with this.
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My personal preference is print.  English is my mothertounge, but my cursive style is almost illegible, plus, I can print a lot faster than I can do cursive. \n\nI have found that most of the engineers at my workplace use print for legibility's sake.
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here is an excerpt about your question...\n\nThe first people to set aside special areas for storing and classifying written materials in order to assist the better functioning of various social groups were the Sumerians\n\nhttp://www.libraries.gr/nonmembers/en/history_mesopotamia_soumer.htm
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There was a very good reason, but that reason is worthless now.\n\nRemember in the old days when typewriters had little arms attached to the keys that would go up and strike the ink ribbon and imprint the letter on paper?  Well, if you have ever typed on a typewriter like this, you know that if you hit 2 keys close together you would get the arms stuck.  The keyboard layout was made such that the likelyhood of the arms getting stuck together was minimal.\n\nIf anyone tells you that the keyboard layout is for ergonomic reasons that is the furthest from the truth.  The layout was the best working layout to prevent the typewriters from constantly jamming.  The reason for not changing it? Because that's the way it's always been.