Controversy Over Hand Writing

Trubek wishes to provide her audience with a convincing argument that shows how handwriting in this time is inferior to typing on computers. In other words, her primary purpose is to illustrate the idea of focusing on typing automaticity (the ability to type without looking at keys) in schools over handwriting automaticity (the ability to write without conscious effort). This is seen when Trubek explains how if “…the goal of public education is to prepare students to become successful, employable adults, typing is inarguably more useful than handwriting.” (Trubek, 2016, para. 4) Trubek argues that if public schools are working

The research article “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking” was written by Pam A. Muller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer, and published by the Psychological Science in 2014. The article focuses on a series of previous research on the topic and studies with the goal of providing evidence to answer their two main questions. The first question is which one the two note taking strategies works better and increases academic performance longhand note taking or laptop note taking. The second question is how verbatim overlap (word for word) affects our learning. In the article, three studies were conducted similarly but as the studies were made something new was added to explore new aspects of learning.

Leslie Slater is a handwriting enthuses who believes that the future of technology is crippling our art of writing and her strong evidence suggest that she might be on to something. The tone in opinion piece is pure and evidential, Leslie mention a substantial amount of studies and she really worry about good old fashion ink writing.

First of all, the article states that " Even when studens in the experiment were given a week to study thier notes, thoes who took notes on a laptop preformed worse on a test than students who wrote thier notes by hand." That right there shows that writing is important and will be benifical to the brains learning process. This article also states that, "Typing and printing by hand require individual rather than connected movements like cursive requires. Neither typing nor printing involve communication better both sides of the brain." What I gather from this quote is that it pushes the brain to become strong in thinking by using

The author’s mood throughout the entire article was pushing toward handwritten notes. In the selection the author states, “ The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective- because you can’t write as fast as you can type “ this means that the students who took handheld notes are forced to think more critically about the points written down. This note-taking strategy requires a student to focus more

“While some argue, cursive writing belongs in the archives and common core ushers it out of schools, the evidence shows we need it as much as ever.” says Jennifer Doverspike. Some people may question why it is still necessary for cursive to be taught in our schools. Especially when we are no longer in the 21st century. Where we have now entered the new age where technology is constantly on the rise, and tablets and iPhones have taken over. This drastic change has allowed our children and adults to take the easier route. Although the electronic world has taken over and has added new elements to the writing world. Researchers have found a strong connection between writing by hand, the mind, language skills, memory and artificial thinking.

When you write, putting a pen to the paper it stimulates the brain more than any other activity. You even work your brain sending e-mails, texts, and tweets. Studies show that when writing in cursive it improves brain development. Cursive helps stimulate your mind in the way of thinking, language, and working memory. When typing you have then absence to all of those critical parts of working your mind. The College Board even found that people/kids who wrote in cursive they got higher tests scores, than those who didn’t.

According to Jame Doubek, in the article “Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away”, writing notes by hand is much more effective than typing notes in class.He used an example of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s study that published in Psychological Science to demonstrate that writing notes by hand can be more potent than typing on the computer.First, Mueller and Oppenheimer suggest that with the development of technology, students are relying more on the laptop because laptops are small and and typing notes is much faster than writing by hand, so students love to type notes in class and always “try to transcribe all thing they heard”. However, the more words they copied verbatim, the worse

Having to put pen to paper encourages the brain like nothing else, even in this age of e-mails, texts, and tweets. In fact, wisdom to compose in cursive is shown to advance brain development in the range of thinking, language and working memory. Cursive script triggers brain synapses and synchronicity among the left and right hemispheres, something vanished from printing and typing. The College Board found that students who compose in cursive for the manuscript portion of the SAT scored slightly higher than those who engraved.

In the second article, the author states that, "Handwriting has taken a backseat to typing as technology dominates the way we communicate." but why should we be forced to choose one over the other? Being proficient in typing should not compromise your ability to read and write in cursive script, as both are extremely valuable skills to have in the twenty-first century. Though it is true that we are evolving into a keyboard based society, technological advancements and cursive script can co-exist, and for the better. The author of the

Anya Kamenetz’s purpose is to support both digital tools and handwriting have positive and negative effects. Kamenetz explains both digital tools and handwriting are effective, “Writing for the page will continue to have its place, but writing for the web will be students’ first language and it’s up to teachers to help them learn how to do it well” (sec.6). She explains both digital tools and handwriting are important for students. Her point is that people still use handwriting to write a diary, on calendar and notes. “Students put their paper online make them work harder to fix their mistakes before put up online” (Kamenetz). Digital tools can make students work harder and motivate them about writing: “First, the good. Writing on the web is public or potentially public. This in itself seems to encourage students to work harder and be more excited about their written work” (Kamenetz sec.2). Digital tools help the student to work harder because student’s paper will be put online; it will cause the student not to make mistakes, and be more careful about writing a paper. Her tone is informative and advising students, which is more effective by not using digital tools or use digital tools to help to write. “The survey also highlighted some common concerns about digital tools’ effects on written

But, actually writing something down instead of typing it, has been proven to be more helpful. In one study, psychologists found that students learned more and understood what

Many different aspects come into play when perfecting your penmanship. From an early age children are taught all the same way to write. As people get older the fine motor skills required for legible writing become better and tighter. When children expand out to cursive, the flow and distinctive marks become more visible and present. The penmanship of a person is as unique as a finger print (Carroll, 2003).

Technology is developing at such a rapid pace, that keyboards may soon be replaced for something even more convenient. Although it is important that education looks forward, and develops with the times, it is also important for education to provide students with tools to connect with and study the past. Although cursive is no longer utilized in the United States for writing out important documents or essays, it was utilized in documents of the past. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were both written out in beautiful and free-flowing cursive. In these cases, cursive is utilized

(Bui in Aragon-Mendizabal 2016) This is because cognitive processing is shallower when using a keyboard. (Mueller and Oppenheimer 2014) Most typists tend to take notes verbatim, (Kiewra in Holz 2016) leading to very superficial levels of actual understanding. (Aragon- Mendizabal 2016) On the contrary, higher order thinking such as attention and memory are required when people take hand written notes. (Aragon- Mendizabal 2016) When taking notes longhand, writers must summarize, paraphrase, and relate concepts to one another in order to record the information in a timely enough manner. (University Wire 2016) Also, proofreading abilities are reduced on typed work, possibly due to the over usage of tools such as grammar and spelling check. (Lessien 2013) Success for students who hand write is documented not only for college students, but for young learners as well.