Pass on your tip-trick to better handwriting.

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7. When I was in grade school 55 years ago, cursive writing was taught first by having us

practice loops, circles, hills, etc., on manuscript paper. When we were able to produce very uniform specimens of each of the practice items, we then translated that into individual letters, and then to entire words. Maybe that would work?

As for my adult self, I have noticed that I produce much nicer handwriting when I make a point to concentrate on forming letters correctly. In notetaking that's a bit hard to do, but it helped me produce something I could actually decipher after the fact.