Handwriting

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

I've noticed recently that Seb and I have noticeably different handwriting. That isn't a problem when we're just taking notes. But we get a lot of written work to hand in, and it's long - so we'll probably both have worked on any given piece. That causes distinct breaks in handwriting in the middle of the work, and we're - or at least I'm - worried that it will attract notice.
Does anyone know any methods of making the difference less obvious?

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[vinik.livejournal.com]

We just have a designated writer in the system for most things. I don't really know how other people do it, though.

[pthalo]

our handwritings vary widely too, but no one's ever called us on it. the handwriting can change mid word or mid sentence, and this is consistent both for homeworks and for inclass tests, so I think most people assume that this is the way "I" write.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We developed a common handwriting and especially a common printing which we all use. Or you could type everything?

[tempusfrangit.livejournal.com]

No advice, since *points* we've worked that out too.

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

We have that too. Since 2 years ago when we began living as separate
entities rather than a blend we stopped being able to sign our old
signature. Luckilly that has not caused much trouble - save for one
bank where we simply withdrew all our cash.

--- Catskillmarina

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

Signatures have occasionally been a problem for me as well, as what's on my driver's license doesn't match what my current signature is. Also when I switch mid signature and can't remember how to write my name. Fortunately, that doesn't happen too often and one of us can approximate it.

[catchild.livejournal.com]

When it is critical that teh handwriting stay the same we type.

We have it on file at our bank that our Signiture will not always look even remotely the same. We also have it on file with WIC that our signiture varies widly due to an unnamed medical condition.

For the most part we dont' worry about the changes in handwriting. We did get a large amount of amuesment out of it once though. we showed a friend a letter we had written, He asked how we had managed to get 20 people to write different parts of the letter soemtimes changeing midword without apparently lifting the pen from the paper. The amuseign part of that was he knew we were plural, but we didn't even know how many folks were here yet. Both he and us thought there were only 5 folks in the body.

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

We never worried about it too much.. and still don't.. and we had a lot of hand written assignments in college, most professors aren't handwriting analysts.. if your style change is consistent.. or even remotely similar.. most won't bat an eye.. the big thing they probably would raise an eyebrow about would be completely different analysis or ideas in one paper.. as long as you follow the same line of reasoning and stuff. you should be ok.
-Blaes

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Thanks, guys. The real worry is that we'll be accused of cheating - but if it comes to that we could demonstrate that both styles come from the same pen, and say it changes with, I dunno, how tired we are or something. They'll expect the assignment to be done in stages, and as a lot of it is either numbers or diagrams it isn't too much of a problem.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

We would type if we could, but unfortunately we haven't any software that can draw 3D projections of chemical structure. I don't think it's a major problem, just a case of being careful.

[ex-corvidae491.livejournal.com]

Uh. If it helps any, I alone have a dozen different handwriting styles. I'll sometimes switch randomly in the middle of a sentence on tests and no one's ever so much as commented on it unless I mention it first. So I really wouldn't worry about it.

--Li

[adreamerforme.livejournal.com]

We don't try making our handwriting all the same.... that's a little too much work for us. Our writing and drawing is so sporadic in style at times that it's just useless. *(sighs)*

No one really reads our handwritten stuff.... I suppose that's why.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

tell them that different sections were worked on different surfaces..i.e. when the writing looks like X, you were writing on a table, when the writing looks like Y you were on the bus, in a car, whatever and were writing in a notebook held on your lap.

Worked for me.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Now that's clever. And almost true.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I have VERY disparate handwriting. Most of us are lefties, Sara (little, 7ish) is a righty and prints everything and can't spell worth a shit, J'Endra presses real hard and has very bold handwriting, I've got shit handwriting, and Willow's writing looks like calligraphy. I had a FANTASTIC senior year English teacher who was TOUGH, but she believed in trying to prep kids for what college would be like. She questioned the writing on mine once and I came up with that one the fly, then proceeded to show her a "difference" between desk writing (which is my sloppy ass shit writing as a lefty on a right handed desk they had in school ) and then J'Endra's bold with the notebook on my lap hunched over and trying to keep it there while writing. She bought it. Whew.

[chaostiny.livejournal.com]

My psychology teacher in college figured out there was more than one entity in here when we had to hand in our notes! But... everyone that would need to sign anything has practiced one common signature... but otherwise we have at least 11 different writing styles... And I havent yet figured out how to get everyone to write the same!

[jerseytwo.livejournal.com]

Jessica and I have very, very different handwriting. She's left-handed and has scripty, perfect-looking writing. I have scratch crap right-handed stuff that she can barely read. It hasn't been a problem until recently, cause I'm not big on the classes we take and don't do much homework. But we've started divying stuff up, and the other day I did the math assignment for a class. The teacher didn't comment when I handed it in, so hopefully he won't care. She ended up doing the last problem cause I was tired, so her handwriting (which is on all the other assignments) is there.

As for signatures, I can't duplicate her signature. In the past, most of the business-type stuff like bank accounts has been taken care of by her alone, and the shopping (where we sign credit card reciepts) has been us blending (so we don't forget stuff), with her mostly in charge. If I have to sign something, I always have to get her to come out and help, cause I can't fake it on my own. It sucks, and I should really work on that, but her sig is just weird.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

A lot of single people have different handwriting styles. Would it really arouse that much suspicion? Our experience is that most people don't generally think 'multiplicity' unless you're displaying blaringly obvious Hollywoodesque symptoms.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

We weren't worried about them suspecting multiplicity, we were worried we'd be accused of cheating.