Originally Posted by AGDee (Post 1783334)

My kids learned the d'nealian handwriting method from kindergarten and it helped them ease into cursive much faster than we did when I was in school. This link shows samples of the method.
http://www.dnealian.com/

I write in cursive a lot because it's so much faster. You don't have to stop, start, stop, start, etc. I can't imagine printing notes during a lecture.