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Surfing through the net about penmanship, I found this interesting article in the New York Times on handwriting tips entitled Op-Art: The Write Stuff.
"American handwriting is in a woeful state. Schools’ insistence on teaching looped cursive handwriting has left a generation of Americans with script they dislike or is often illegible. The Palmer method and subsequent 20th-century methods were based on an ornate style that was difficult to learn and broke down under pressure.The loops and curlicues of Palmer and other similar methods obscure legibility. For good reason, one rarely finds looped cursive in print media or computer fonts. We have become a “Please Print” nation. Even worse, we have failed to find a replacement.But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on the page and become legible writers by turning to a style that existed long before Palmer rendered our world illegible. We can embrace letterforms born in the Italian Renaissance. We can go italic.
The article mentions the woeful state of American handwriting and
