This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t count ... Or maybe it was that regardless, eventually you got to use a pen instead of a pencil.

Although it looked like cursive, each letter was printed separately ... of the arm rather than the fingers of the hand holding the pen. The Palmer Method became the most popular style of cursive ...

3. Cursive writing is easier than printing, particularly for some people with different abilities. Being able to write ...