Even though the number of handwritten responses was limited, illegible handwriting (often in languages other than English) posed challenges.
And outside, often in handwriting, this is what floor they were on, this is how tall they were, this is how much they weighed.
Many respondents commented that penmanship was the only course in which they received less than stellar grades (I was one of them), and that too often poor handwriting is associated with lack of intelligence.
Otherwise, Edward's studies progressed much like a typical boy he consistently had "less than perfect" or "not quite satisfactory" marks for conduct from his teachers, and did not work hard on his penmanship lessons, which may have contributed to his often illegible handwriting as an adult.
They remain as a testament to a group of very energetic, devoted young women, to bad typewriters, often illegible handwriting, and long hours of deeply non-unionised work, reading and research.
In subtly changing (and often very cramped) handwriting, these notebooks covered 50 years of somebody's life.
The experience of seeing an email landing in your inbox can't compare with the excitement of seeing a letter arriving for you, seeing your name written out in often surprisingly neat handwriting.
Data and diagnostic information isn't always shared efficiently and often recorded in handwriting, making it more difficult to track.
Using a pen-shaped stylus to enter more than a few letters just isn't efficient, and more often than not, handwriting recognition isn't as reliable as it should be.
A4e's chosen typefaces often approximate children's handwriting.
