Sorry, you have to redo your paper. It's way too sloppy.

This thread is about penmanship, or how neat you can write. I remember how I used to have extremely sloppy handwriting back 5 years ago, but now, I'm very neat (so I say so anyway...) Anyways, my questions to you are:

Are you a neat writer?
Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?


Feel free to include any thing else that's interesting!

Are you a neat writer?
For the past couple years I have been.

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
Fourth grade was the year I made it my goal to have better penmanship. I used to write like a guy which made me feel so manly. :/ So I just started writing slower and actually trying. Now it's a work of art. :D

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
Strictly print. I hate cursive with a passion.

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?
When I was in first grade my teacher made me re do a paper because of that. She was also a you know what so go figure.

An interesting thing to add would be that when I was going through those 'make my handwriting look better years' I'd switch from writing extremely small to enormous letters. I've found a happy medium now though.

Are you a neat writer?
Yeah, I guess. My teachers say so :o.

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
Yeah, during the past couple of years, I think I have.

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
I prefer cursive. But print is more comfortable.

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?
No..:D

Are you a neat writer?
I am. A lot of the people I've come to know always tease me in saying how girly my handwriting happens to be. I have a lot of different types and styles of handwriting, and every time I pick up a pen, it's never the same - or even relatively the same - from the last thing I had to write.

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
Obviously, considering none of us are exactly born as the modern day John Hancock. Penmanship can always be improved. I think the reason I have such neat handwriting is because when I was little my mom always made me redo my homework if it was sloppy.

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
I write in print.

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?
The only person who ever made me redo anything was my mom, like I said. When I was younger, I had to turn in neat homework (since around 2nd grade she started judging my work based on my penmanship). It's a good thing, because most of the people I know write in chickenscratch and that's just very illegible.

Are you a neat writer?
Nope, I'm as sloppy as they come.

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
Actually, since graduating high school, it's gotten worse. College lectures go by so quickly that you have to speed up your writing considerably and it naturally becomes even sloppier

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
Print. cursive takes too long for my brain. XD

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?
I type up all of my papers because of my sloppy handwriting.

Are you a neat writer?
Yes actually. I have pretty neat handwriting.

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
I think my handwriting has improved from a couple years ago.

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
Always print. I hate writing in cursive Dx

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?
Nope xP

I'm not a neat write and I've never been bothered to try and improve it. Writing in print is easier to understand than my writing however looks worse, so I do it every now and again. I've had to redo tons of stuff because of it =/

Are you a neat writer?
I'd like to say so. What's more important, though, is that when I want to, my handwriting can me tiny. Although these days, I think it's steadily getting bigger. :p

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
Of course. My handwriting used to look like chicken scratch.

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
Print, unless I have to write in cursive. That made 5th grade fun, as we were required to write in cursive sans one assignment. My print is neat, but my cursive, due to lack of use, is awful. That, and I can print 10x faster than I can do cursive, so when taking notes, that's all I can use.

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?
Not that I recall.

Anyway, this is somewhat relevant. Sadly I think that's rather sloppy for me. Whatever. :p

Are you a neat writer?
No. I'm too lazy to provide a sample, so a little bit is in this picture.

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
Not really, somewhat since Elementary school. It's been pretty much unchanged since 2003-2004 ish.

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
Print, it's actually faster and "cleaner" than my cursive.

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?
I type all of my important papers.

Are you a neat writer?
Not in the slightest. XD;

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?
Yes, I have... but sadly, not enough to make it look any good. XD;

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?
I write in print because it's easier... and at that, I tend to write in all caps sometimes to make it easier to read. But my standard handwriting looks worse than most people's shorthand. D;

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?
Well, not from memory... because we've always had the option to type it, and most of my instructors have pretty high skills for reading poor handwriting. XD

Good penmanship counted for a sizable portion of the marks in Vietnam (10% maximum), so I was a very neat writer in my youth...by American standards that is. I was touted as having one of the neatest handwriting in class in America, but derided as one of the worst in my old class in Vietnam. I used to write in cursive but have adopted print over the years. I haven't improved; in fact, I went the opposite direction: my handwriting is now messier than ever. 8D; Nonetheless legibility has never been an issue for me.

Are you a neat writer?

I suppose so. Though at times when I'm in a hurry to write a lot down my writing gets very big (by my standards).

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?

Well, of course I have, almost everybody does.

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?

I actually kind of wish I'd gotten into the habit of cursive, but after the initial teaching of it in 3rd grade the teacher's pretty much forgot about it. Then, in 6th grade our teacher's suddenly said we have to complete all of our assignments in cursive, and we were all screwed. So, yeah, I write in print.

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?

Yeah, 3rd grade my teacher said I had to redo this huge (for a 3rd grader) assignment because my handwriting was too large, even though I only had to use the page given to me. Then, when it was finally to her satisfaction I hadn't even taken up half the paper. Freakin' LA teachers...

Are you a neat writer?

Not really. If I write stuff more slowly, my handwriting is much easier to read. However, whenever I have to take notes, my handwriting will be extremely sloppy because I am a slow writer and I try to keep up with the professor before they move on.

Have you improved in your penmanship ever?

Nope, I still have the same old handwriting as before.

Do you generally write in print, or in script/cursive?

I write in print almost exclusively. The only time I write in cursive and when I need to sign something.

Have you actually ever had to redo a paper because of sloppy handwriting?

Can't remember the last that happened. All of my most recent papers were required to be typed out. I don't think I have handwritten an essay since my junior year of high school.

My handwriting is so horrible, it's only good for math... and that's it. Trust me, it's a lot sadder than it sounds :(

As a result, I type out all my homework that requires pencil and paper. Only math is when I write anything at all. Good thing the school I'm going to is much more technology orientated.