(n.) The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.
Example Sentences:
(1) King finished the outline at about midnight and then wrote a draft in longhand.
(2) Maybe it was the peace and quiet of the cosy, carpeted, sun-drenched study at home in Chappaqua, upstate New York, with views over the treetops, where she wrote much of Hard Choices in longhand.
(3) A Princeton University spokesman said: "The story is probably an unauthorised version transcribed longhand in our reading room.
(4) I still write longhand with a pencil and retype the manuscript, slowly, with my right hand.
(5) The midges were discouraging longhand explanations, so I said that a friend of mine had written a book called Waterlog about wild swimming, and now I couldn't keep out of the water.
(6) Dr Holland made his comments on the case in shorthand and his instructions in longhand.
(7) I don't think there is any doubt that a trained typist can type faster and more legibly than it is possible to write in longhand.
(8) Gessen, a founder of the combative literary journal N+1 who writes in longhand to avoid being distracted by the internet, told Gould never to read the article, but then Twitter went into full-on hyperventilation mode as other women came forward to accuse Champion of harassing them online.
Penmanship
Definition:
(n.) The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pages have many cross-outs and insertions in meticulous penmanship – with an open acknowledgment that some of the maths was beyond even him.
(2) The digital age, with its typing and its texting, has left us unable to jot down the simplest of notes with anything like penmanship.
(3) He smiles down from the foyer of the college that houses the day-care centre only to peer out again amid the stick-men pictures and spidery penmanship on the wall of centre itself.
(4) Whether the change is in my eyesight, my tolerance level, or student penmanship, reading exam scripts is becoming, for me too, increasingly painful.
(5) In summary then, the neuropsychological profile of Filipino parkinsonians reveals deficits in visuospatial processing, social judgment, attention and mental tracking, recent memory and word retrieval, aside from predicted difficulty in fine motor activities which would result in a deterioration of their penmanship.
(6) In response to these difficulties, special educators often modify literacy instruction, isolating the "basic skills" of literacy (such as decoding and penmanship) from meaningful reading and writing activities.