[WalterBright]

Doing work with handwriting helps in learning the material. I don't know why that works, but my experience (and others') clearly shows it does.

[remashedspood]

And I strongly disagree.

The moment I have to write stuff down my focus is gone and I might as well be taking a nap.

And having to read my own handwriting assures I’ll never look at that page, again.

Different strokes

[DangitBobby]

Having to write stuff down made it impossible for me to pay attention to the lecture. But I was definitely more likely to remember what I did write down. Bit of a catch 22

[Larrikin]

Do you acknowledge you're a minority?

I detest writing and have terrible handwriting but have seen first hand that typing or just listening is not as effective. In grad school I sucked it up and just typed up my handwritten notes so they were searchable when I actually needed them to be.

But writing by hand and just reading them over was usually enough.

[encomiast]

That's been my experience as well. I'm just curious about cursive writing specifically.

[WalterBright]

point taken. I learned to take notes by printing by hand, as my cursive was illegible.