by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Sloppy handwriting costs MONEY!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I was happy when I moved from 6th grade to 7th grade. The reason was simple – there would be no more penmanship classes. I would get all A s in school and no more C s. Penmanship was, anyways, a made up subject so that girls could get a good grade (excuse my bad attitude, but I was after all just a little boy).<\/p>\n
I always hated penmanship. I knew what I meant. So what if someone else had trouble reading what I wrote with a pencil? That was their problem.<\/p>\n
Fast forward a few decades. I would sit in meetings with other engineers and someone would be at the white board. They would mumble something towards the board, write a few things, and turn around. “See?”, they would ask.<\/p>\n
Yes, I could see that they had put ink on the white board, but I had no idea what it was.<\/p>\n
Time wasted. Money wasted.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. We were writing some documents as a group at work. People would write their comments on their printed copies. I had to type the comments into a master copy on the computer.<\/p>\n
I could see their ink on paper, but I had no idea what it was.<\/p>\n
Time wasted. Money wasted.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When I was 45, I bought a book on penmanship. It had the good old pages of how to make letters. It had the dashed-line letters where I would slowly and carefully trace how to make the letters. It had the blank lines requiring me to write each letter dozens of times. I worked through the entire book.<\/p>\n
Note: this book, like many “modern” books, taught only blocked printing. It did not teach the looped cursive style.<\/p>\n
I write in a journal. I practice writing by hand every day. I write by hand more than most people. My penmanship is better now than at any time in my life.<\/p>\n
What is my secret to writing in a way that is legible?<\/p>\n
I try hard.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I hate to write this blog post. I sound like Miss Campbell (that is Miss Campbell, not Ms or Mrs Campbell), my teacher from the first grade. This, however, is not griping for the sake of making a six-year-old boy do boring work over and over.<\/p>\n
This is about wasting time and money.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In case I am not clear on this, let me repeat:<\/p>\n
Bad penmanship is about wasting time and money.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So every engineer out there – let’s get over our disdain for what happened to us when we were six years old.<\/p>\n
Try harder. Write legibly.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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