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[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Academia in the USA I guess, the rest of the world are incredulous.

If it's legible then it's fine in the UK, you get taught the "traditional" ways for joining words around age 8 or 9 (from memory, that might be wrong nowadays) but nobody gets punished for doing it wrong if the word is easy to make out, and many do use the "wrong" techniques.

In my opinion you should have a couple lessons practising joining letters, then just do whatever you feel like and most will join for speed, if it can't be read it gets badly marked but that's true already obviously.

USA, tis a nutty place sometimes...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you're writing research papers, obviously you don't really write them anymore you type them, but back when you did write them, that was the requirement, printed not cursive and yeah that was the requirement in the UK as well It was an international standard.

[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Academia at that level sure, it was never a requirement for my GCSE coursework 20odd yrs ago though.

And the reality is that formal research papers have been typed as long as typewriters existed, before the curriculum was even set.