Cursive Letters

If we lose the ability to understand cursive, we lose the ability to understand them. Correspondingly, cursive helps improve handwriting, fine motor skills, and left handed writing. Zezima, who is also a climate scientist and impact editor, mentions, “Sandy Schefkind, a pediatric occupational therapist in Bethesda, Md., and pediatric coordinator for the American Occupational Therapy Association, said that learning cursive helped students hone their fine motor skills” (The Case for Cursive). A certified pediatric coordinator and occupational therapist confirmed that cursive therapy benefits students. The statement shows that it helps them enhance their fine motor skills which are used in everyday

In the article, “Why We Shouldn’t Write Off Cursive” by Bobby George and June George, talks about cursive. The authors argue how cursive should be taught in school and should be considered more valuable. Right now, 45 states has omitted cursive from the required school curricula. I remember when I studied in a private school at India, we had to learn cursive. It was not an optional, it was a must and we were pretty much was graded on how neat/good you write it. Personally, I think cursive is very neat, elegant, and rich looking and I believe it helps you get a good handwriting too.

First of all, if people can write in cursive, they can sign their name on a bill or letter. Tom Zelinka recently said, “Cursive has become a small part of our curriculum therefore most children cannot read it.” That means in fifteen to twenty years these kids will not be able to sign their names. 82% of the children don’t know how to write or read cursive. In the future this gives their boss a reason to fire them.

Through the years, many people have stated that cursive should not be taught in schools. Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive. Cursive writing definitely has a place in our digital society.

First and foremost, in this article the thesis statement is about how the art of cursive along with the curriculum of the subject is no longer offered to children in school. Also, the evidence that supports this thesis is clearly explained throughout the story about how teachers no longer feel that cursive writing is needed in school, and how technology is a huge factor in schools which pretty much eliminates the need to teach the skill of writing or using cursive penmanship. Furthermore, the author’s style of this article is fictional and states a lot of interesting factors that have been researched, how times have changed. In fact, education just isn’t the same and probably will continue to become more dependent on technology. All in all,

Taught more than thirty decades ago, cursive writing has a famed and legendary past. It was once a vital element of American education but is now becoming an archaic artefact as technology advancement and the requirement of more regulated tests push it out of the education system. Cursive writing should be scrapped out of the education system for there is no need of wasting time and resources to continue teaching a skill that won’t be beneficial to the students in the near future.

Teachers should use the thirteen hours designated to learning this non-useful skill to teach something more often used. Skills such as reading, writing format, grammar, and spelling are all far more necessary in high school, college, and the real world than cursive Thirteen hours should be spent improving the content of writing

I personally agree more strongly with the first essay. Writing is a huge part of the English language and cursive is almost historic. We sign our names in cursive, giving up on cursive would make us loose some of our own unique identities. Sure we have electronic sigure now a days (numeric password or thumb print) and sure we still need to learn how to properaly use technology but we still need a cursive signiture to help seperate us for other. It is absolutely astonishing how different all our cursive signitures are. Also If we were to give up on teaching cursive all together we would dismiss a chunk of history. In the past cursive is what our ancestors wrote in, If we were to move only to electronics we would be moving farther and farther

My own point of view of the controversial descion of cursive writing is some what both sided. Although there are many pros and few cons of cursive writing I still feel as though that cursive writing is esssential to whatever your higher educational needs may be. I also feel that it is unessecary to succeed your educational goals whatever they may be. In this breifly detailed essay I will be expalining why I feel as the above reflects.

When I was in the third grade in my small town school, we had to learn cursive to pass the class. It was not very hard, just a little challenging on some of the letters. When I had to sign my name, I knew how to do my signature, or when I got a head injury it showed how bad the injury was based on my print and cursive writing.

I think learning cursive really isn't important anymore. When i was growing up, I learned cursive up until the third grade, after that it wasn't really important. Most of technology now does not require a signature, so cursive is becoming less and less inclusive as technology advances. As said in the second passage "Students in both high school and college are expected to turn in typed, rather than handwritten, papers," in high school we had write rough drafts, but the finished product had to be typed. I think cursive should be taken out of school, because it's not necessary. In some cases though I can see where cursive can help people. The first passage clearly states that learning cursive helps with fine motor skills and stimulates both sides

My earliest recollection of writing is at around six or seven years old, meticulously copying longhand letters and words in my elementary school copybook. The perfectly formed characters, uniformly spaced at the top of each page, appealed to my sense of order encouraging me to replicate the cursive lettering as faithfully as I could on the printed lines below. By the time I reached high school, I had mastered the art of legible, almost calligraphic script. The mechanics were easy, creating interesting and articulate content, not so much.

Cursive writing, fancy letters, joined together to form loops, has been taught for centuries.There are seven states that are fighting to teach cursive writing, they say that “It helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate.”[Boone 2] But on the other hand, critics say that cursive is outdated, In fact, According to USA Today, “41 States no longer require students to learn cursive.”With this in mind, it is clear that cursive writing should no longer be taught.

Cursive, that time consuming thing generations before us were taught. The thing is, cursive doesn’t have to be time consuming. Just practicing cursive 5-10 minutes a day, 3 times a week can help you master cursive. Cursive writing may be able to help people with spelling and comprehending, could also be able to help people with dyslexia, and is proven to have stimulated the

Do you ever think about how you write or writing in general? Many people believe writing in cursive isn't as important as it was made out to be. I belive there is a good side to writing weather it's cursive or not. Writing helps you remmeber tasks more effeciantly, strengthens the brain, and can even identify brain disorders.