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Cursive Type of Writing

Cursive writing is a style of handwriting where letters are joined together in a flowing manner to make writing faster. There are different types of cursive writing including looped, italic, and connected styles. Looped cursive uses letter loops, italic cursive does not loop all letters, and connected cursive joins all letters to minimize pen lifts due to limitations of writing with a quill. Cursive developed from earlier styles and is taught differently in various countries today.

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Cursive Type of Writing

Cursive writing is a style of handwriting where letters are joined together in a flowing manner to make writing faster. There are different types of cursive writing including looped, italic, and connected styles. Looped cursive uses letter loops, italic cursive does not loop all letters, and connected cursive joins all letters to minimize pen lifts due to limitations of writing with a quill. Cursive developed from earlier styles and is taught differently in various countries today.

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Cursive type of writing

Cursive means a “running” hand, where pen lifts are minimized. Cursive
handwriting style, also known as script or longhand, is any style of writing where
some characters are written in a flowing manner joined together. This type of
writing was generally purposed to make writing faster.

Casual Cursive is generally a combination of joins and pen lifts while formal cursive
it is all conjoined. In the Cyrillic, Arabic, Latin, and Syriac alphabets, many letters
and words are written in a flowing manner, sometimes making a word look like a
single pen stroke. In Roman cursive and Hebrew cursive, the letters are not joined.

The cursive writing style is further divided into three subclasses; looped, italic and
connected.

Looped Cursive Handwriting


In looped cursive handwriting, some letters that ascend and descend are written
with loops to provide for joins. An example of looped handwriting is Renaissance,
which is one of the oldest handwriting styles in history.

Italic Cursive Handwriting


Italic cursive penmanship is derived from chancery cursive and uses non-looped
joins. Joins from g, j, q, or y and other few letters are discouraged. Italic handwriting
style became popular during the medieval times.

During the 15th century, the popular handwriting consisted of black indecipherable
letter script. Due to its illegibility, Renaissance scribes and writers decided to return
to the Carolingian writing style, which was invented by monks in the 8th century
with bold and easy-to-read letters. However, they gave it an ornate look by slanting
it conjoining some of the letters with lines.

The cursive italic handwriting originated in Italy; hence it was dubbed the name
“italic.” This term (italic) relates to penmanship where letters slant backward and
should not be confused with the “italic typed” where letters slant forward.

Connected Cursive Writing


The connected cursive handwriting is associated with the origin of the cursive
writing method. It was used not only for its practical advantages of writing speed,
but also the infrequent pen lifting that was required to accommodate the
limitations of writing with the quill. The quill is fragile hence breaks easily and will
spatter unless it is used correctly.

The steel dip pen followed the quill. Although they were sturdier than the quill, steel
dip pens came with some limitations like spattering if you did not write fast enough.

Print Handwriting Style


Print handwriting style, also known as block letters, printscript, ball and stick, or
manuscript, is a gothic or sans-serif writing style where letters are individual glyphs
and not conjoined.

In most English speaking countries, children are taught how to write in block letters
before they later advance to joined (cursive) writing. Countries like Austria, Italy,
Poland, France, and Germany focus on teaching the cursive writing style from the
first grade.

The print penmanship style is often used to write on official forms. This is because
the cursive style of writing is harder to read and since the glyphs are joined
together, they do not neatly fit into separate boxes.

D’Nealian type of penmanship


D’Nealian type of handwriting is an English penmanship style that incorporates
both print and cursive writing styles.

In the early 20th century, penmen noted that the cursive handwriting style wasn’t
very practical or efficient for use due to the growing amount of bureaucratic
paperwork that accountants, bookkeepers, and other businessmen faced.
Moreover, cursive penmanship became especially complicated to teach children
due to the primary use of finger movements to write which left their hands
cramped.

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