penpersonship
nounEtymology By analogy with penmanship and penwomanship, penperson + -ship.
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Handwriting.
- The 8- and 9-year-olds answered assignments to define women’s liberation in Mission View and Lewis and Clark grade schools recently. In sometimes painful penpersonship, they scrawled their answers.1977 February 16, “Let women drive diesels, children say”, in The Daily Universe, volume 30, number 106, Provo, Utah, page 8:
- A year later, after spending a week in sixth grade at Alcott, Soil observed: Changes occurred which cannot be calculated by tabulating new test scores or by observing neater penpersonship. It takes more time than that to notice the subtle and remarkable ways in which a child’s mind grows and begins to reach out for a larger chunk of the world.1979, Donald N. Morris, “Elementary School Programs”, in Schooling for a Global Age, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 133:
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- In Unity under your direction has added one more atrocity to its list of many. The worst to date had been the article of absurdity called “The Trek” by the penpersonship of a Shelley Hamilton. Now the editor deems it necessary to ostracize a whole congregation in an editorial. You see it was a decision of our congregation to return the pieces of paper called In Unity. […] William Coulter / Chairperson / Christian Education / MCCR - Houston1980 November/December, William Coulter, “Feedback”, in In Unity, Los Angeles, Calif.: the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches:
- The Olympics will consist of teams of the “average American family (Mom, Dad, Buddy, and Sis),” with anyone playing whatever role they wish. The events will include duck and cover drills; spare door and shovel carrying; digging a hole, driving a car over it, and getting into the hole; automobile packing contests; possession of the best post-destruction documents; penpersonship of P.O. change of address forms, etc.1983 July–August, Ed Hedemann, “Civil Defense Strategy Conference”, in WRL News, number 237, the War Resisters League, →ISSN, page 6, column 3:
- French composition, his mother tells him, is invaluable, since “one always has to write letters.” Antoine, as if to illustrate her claim, mimics her penpersonship in a note of excuse. He subsequently steals a typewriter so that the principal will not recognize his handwriting.1985, Robert Stam, Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard, Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, →ISBN, page 19:
- Writing. Handwriting activities are clearly focused on the improvement of penpersonship. Work might be done from or on the chalkboard, dittoes, worksheets, or with pencil and paper.1985 December, Linda A. Meyer, Robert L. Linn, C. Nicholas Hastings, Observation and Coding Manual for the Longitudinal Study of Reading Comprehension and Science Concept Acquisition (Technical Report No. 381), 3rd edition, page 28: