Q&A for How to Improve Your Cursive

Yes, however, it may be harder to write in because you cannot fully open it. It might be better to use loose-leaf paper in a binder.

In some schools, yes. It is being taught less and less in schools, however.

Yes, as mentioned above, using calligraphy or ballpoint pens are a good idea when learning and improving your cursive.

With calligraphy pens, your writing can be better sometimes, so that's recommended. Your choice of pen can sometimes affect your writing. Brands don't really matter here. If you use a pen while writing normally, you can use the same pen while writing in cursive too. The main point is that you need to be comfortable holding the pen and the pen should be of good quality and write more or less smoothly.

No, it's better not to. The tips of brush markers although are good for calligraphy, aren't really good for cursive writing. It's best to use some kind of a pen or pencil for cursive writing.

These days, cursive writing is being excluded from many schools because most people now communicate with technology or printed documents and having beautiful handwriting is no longer that important. In earlier times, people had to write letters by hand and neatness was very important. But now, we have e-mail and fewer and fewer people write letters by hand. Also, many people these days are unable to read cursive. This is why fewer people are still interested in cursive and why it's being excluded in so many schools.