What's the difference between cursive and handwriting?

Cursive


Definition:

  • (a.) Running; flowing.
  • (n.) A character used in cursive writing.
  • (n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The higher incidence in early grades was related to the earlier introduction of cursive style writing in the German sample.
  • (2) Most of patients with cursive seizures showed temporal lobe epileptiform discharge in EEG.
  • (3) At the end of the first year or the beginning of the second, they are then introduced to the cursive script and its loopier letters, which join together in a prescribed fashion.
  • (4) Seven cases of cursive and two cases of gelastic manifestations of epileptic seizures are presented.
  • (5) Reading and writing performance was observed in 30 adult aphasic patients to determine whether there was a significant difference when stimuli and manual responses were varied in the written form: cursive versus manuscript.
  • (6) In Experiment 1, response deprivation was used to improve the cursive writing of six EMR children, using math as the contingent response.
  • (7) Number of words correctly read, number of words correctly written, and number of letters correctly written in the proper sequence were tallied for both cursive and manuscript writing tasks for each patient.
  • (8) They will continue to teach block capitals, but the subtleties of cursive writing will no longer be transmitted outside the elite.
  • (9) Repeating endless cursive letters along wide-spaced, pale blue lines.
  • (10) Patients were asked to read aloud 10 words written cursively and 10 words written in manuscript form.
  • (11) Both seem to have emerged in the Bronze Age, when patterns of artistry and cursive writing became fixed; but, by the time the alphabet was invented, the patterns became complicated by human perversity and racial rivalries, with an interesting, often damaging, legacy to the civilisations and cultures that followed.
  • (12) The effects of EMG biofeedback training on cursive handwriting were investigated for 4 girls and 5 boys in Grade 4.
  • (13) When the most prominent ictal symptom in an epileptic seizure is laughing or running the condition has been termed respectively gelastic or cursive epilepsy.
  • (14) Grace Owens of Brunswick, Georgia, wearing a hat that read “deplorable” in cursive script and a T-shirt that proclaimed America First, thought neither candidate won the debate.
  • (15) The collection includes 14 notebooks filled with research notes in small cursive handwriting, letters to Einstein's contemporaries on his physics research, and a handwritten explanation of his theory of relativity and its summarising equation e=mc2.
  • (16) Chelsea Manning joins Twitter and gets over 1,000 followers before posting Read more In the tweeted note, written in small cursive handwriting in black ink on lined paper, she said that she had asked a friend, Trevor FitzGibbon , a few weeks ago to set up the Twitter account.
  • (17) Written towards the end of his life in England, where he was born, there is no hint of the monster in the curlicues of a neat, cursive hand.
  • (18) They were then asked to write on dictation 10 words responses using cursive writing and 10 words using manuscript writing.
  • (19) The basic task was to write the words 'poppy' and 'wood' cursively five times, the first time in their normal size and then with four size transformations.
  • (20) The children only began working on them yesterday but they’re already miniature masterpieces – the pictures are bright and intricate, the writing is elegant cursive and the stories are dramatic, with speech bubbles and exclamation marks.

Handwriting


Definition:

  • (n.) The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
  • (n.) That which is written by hand; manuscript.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient with the right posterior lesion could not recognize handwriting, was prosopagnosic and topographagnosic, but had no difficulty in reading, lipreading, or in recognizing stylized drawings.
  • (2) Despite control for sex-typed handwriting cues in the second study, 8 male novitiates' responses were assessed as less empathic than those of 8 females.
  • (3) It was found that automated speech recognition (ASR) permitted doctors to produce their reports faster and more accurately than handwriting or dictation to tape.
  • (4) In the second experiment, preadolescent learning-disabled students who were required to read and spell correctly a greater number of words per reward token later spent more time and completed more work for reward tokens in mathematics, and handwriting.
  • (5) When I returned home from Athens, among the waiting mail, there was a letter written to me in the handwriting that had become so familiar over the previous 10 years.
  • (6) For seven years, the government has been fighting to prevent the disclosure of the letters – dubbed "black spider memos" because of the heir's handwriting.
  • (7) During the study period, psychopathometric data, prolactin plasma levels, and handwriting samples were collected.
  • (8) 2ptspls) but handwriting at length, to be read by others, seems now to be confined to school and university examinations.
  • (9) After all, there's no call for handwriting in most jobs today, any more than there is any requirement for independent thought.
  • (10) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
  • (11) effect on the handwriting area was manifest from 8 to 48 h after administration and reached maximum intensity between 24 and 36 h. This is consistent with rather a large duration of action observed clinically.
  • (12) The only black, female reporter on Florida’s Daytona Beach News-Journal, from 2007 Ferrier was targeted with a stream of abusive letters threatening lynchings and a “race war”, all in the same handwriting and from the same potentially dangerous person.
  • (13) However, correlations among scores on 6 measures showed that handwriting was significantly related to visuomotor integration, visual form perception, and tracing in the total group and to visuomotor integration and visual form perception in the clumsy group.
  • (14) Examined the relationship between certain handwriting characteristics and Eysenck's Extraversion-Introversion and Kagan's Impulsivity-Reflectivity personality dimensions.
  • (15) Howard R. Hughes was eliminated as the possible writer of the questioned handwriting on Exhibits Q-1 through Q-35.
  • (16) Technology seems to have ruined our collective handwriting ability.
  • (17) With that, you can open five other features: • Action Memo lets you handwrite a note.
  • (18) It has long been a painful rite of passage for German schoolchildren – learning "die Schreibschrift", a fiddly form of joined-up handwriting all pupils are expected to have mastered by the time they leave primary school.
  • (19) Although the phrase, "handwriting is brainwriting," is commonly heard, there is little in the literature to support the statement.
  • (20) At the left parietal leads in the normal readers, the morphology of the verbal stimuli (capitals and handwriting) were very similar throughout the sweep and both were very different from the nonverbal stimuli.