Nowadays‚ cursive writing is only found when people are signing their names onto papers‚ checks‚ etc. With papers being written electronically more and more‚ cursive is found to be being used less and less. A recent Xerox Mortgage Service survey reveals that by 2016‚ nearly half of all home loans could be closed electronically. This means that people won’t even have to physically sign their names. Students in schools have learning the Zaner-Bloser method of cursive writing since the 1950’s. Now‚
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learning to write in cursive is beneficial to children because it improves their knowledge of the alphabet‚ helps with legal documentation‚ and connects students to the past. Writing the alphabet not only in print‚ but also in cursive helps students acquire a better understanding of the letters. Improving a child’s understanding of the alphabet can help when it comes to reading or forming words. Cursive writing can also help students with dyslexia learn more efficiently. Some cursive letters are written
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English 100 April 28‚ 2014 Cursive: The Long Lost Handwriting Style. “What is this? I am not accepting this paper until you rewrite it in cursive!” This is what I heard from my old teacher telling my buddy who didn’t take the ‘cursive only’ rule seriously. I attended St. Catherine’s Military Academy‚ a private military school that instilled many values in their students; including‚ the aforementioned ‘cursive only’ rule. I didn’t really understand why they made us write in cursive‚ I actually hated it
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Cursive writing is an extremely paramount necessity because it links to our past ...especially since it had developed thousands of years ago‚ and it even helps build up brain activity‚ however‚ recent technology has threatened to wipe out cursive writing forever. Cursive writing is extremely important because it keeps a strong link to our past. For example‚ people have been writing in cursive for thousands of years. Moreover‚ cursive writing is full of significant memories. You can find them on
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reasons why I believe cursive writing should still be taught today. For example‚ handwriting is 50% of literacy. First‚ cursive helps with your body. For example‚ your hands brain‚ etc. Next‚ for school purposes‚ students can read documents from the past. Moreover‚ what about life skills? Such as a simple signature‚ you need a signature for when you pay for something at the store with a credit or debit card. Those three little things requires cursive. First‚ cursive writing helps with your brain
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Cursive Writing Instruction Must Continue in Ohio Schools Veronica Brown Shawnee State University Author Note Veronica Brown‚ Department of English 1105‚ Melissa Green‚ Shawnee State University. Abstract This is a proposal about keeping cursive writing in Ohio schools. Both the Ohio State Board of Education‚ director Ron Rudduck and Ohio lawmakers‚ like Ohio Senate President Ken Faber need to come together with the Ohio Assembly and make it mandatory to keep cursive writing instruction
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Summary and Response Essay Is Cursive Writing A Thing of the Past? How often do we actually use cursive writing these days? And if we don’t write incursive‚ should we continue to teach our children how to? This is one of the biggest questions in our education system today. Many states are eliminating this practice‚ while others are trying to preserve this slowing fading art. Dr. Vi Supon‚ tells us is in the article‚ Cursive Writing: Are It’s Last Days approaching?‚ “Indicators are that technological
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Cursive writing seems to hold a sentimental value to many people‚ but should sentimental value be the determining factor of whether or not something should be taught in schools? Personally‚ I don’t think so. Technology is expanding more rapidly now than it ever has before‚ and along with that comes more things to learn. Things that are critical for children to know in order to become a valid‚ functioning part of our society. In today’s day and age‚ learning to write in cursive just isn’t one of
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Cursive Writing: A Requisite Skill to be Taught in the Classroom Cursive writing is a written art that should not be lost in the shadow of technology and typing. Multiple schools have jettisoned their cursive writing curriculum‚ leaving many students without its numerous benefits. Cursive can help provide people with a sense of individuality because every person has a unique signature. Some argue that cursive writing should not be taught in schools‚ but those who say this do not realize how important
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write in cursive. Because cursive writing is essential and it is good for our minds. Also because cursive writing helps with fine motor-skills development. As well as stimulating both the right and the left parts of our brain. Also cursive writing requires alot of connected movements which is good. Unlike typing and printing by hand which only requires individual rather than connected movements. Neither typing nor printing involve communication between both sides of the brain. But cursive writing
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