Handwriting Without Tears

In recent years, the rushing tide of typing has overwhelmed the once necessary skill of handwriting. As the days pass by computers and other 21st century electronics are becoming more and more a part human lives. Gone are the constant needs for pen and paper, often times all that is needed for notetaking is a laptop and working fingers. A recent article published by Anne Trubek titled “Handwriting Just Doesn’t Matter” analyzes the importance of handwriting in the computerized world that is lived in today, as well as through a discussion on the teaching of cursive and other handwriting exercises in schools. Using a mix of pathos, logos, and minor amounts of ethos, Trubek is able to comprehensively convince her audience that handwriting is not as important or useful a skill as it used to be.

Handwriting is not only a form of communication. This is a part of your identity as well. You can easily tell whether the words are written by you or not. The perfect handwriting obtains goods marks in exams, and better letters in essay writing or assignment writing can help you get much attention from your professors.

“Handwriting is already suffering a major blowback” says Joanne Jacobson who is a curriculum director of Fraser Public Schools. Cursive may be legible for kids who are below third grade but by the time they reach fifth grade they all have developed their own style of handwriting. With or without learning cursive writing, a child’s handwriting develops for better over the years.

Handwriting without tears is a handwriting curriculum that uses multi-sensory techniques and uses reliable habits to help children learn how to hold a pencil, use correct posture, letter formation and handwriting from Pre-K through cursive. Handwriting without tears demonstrates that children are able to learn more successfully by actively doing, with materials that address all styles of learning.

Agosa speaks about the ways handwriting is a cardinal aspect in early childhood development and the possible replacement of such may be a critical blow to the improvement of a child’s advanced motor skills. A motor skill is a skill intentionally learned that involves the fine workings and movement of certain muscles or parts of the body. Writing is a huge motor skill that all children are going to need to know to at the very least sign their names. If you can’t sign your name how can you ever expect to write checks or authenticate your debit card? How are you going to obtain a license or form of ID without a signature? These things seem so small and far away in the lives of young children, but those kids won’t be tiny forever. One day they are going to need to go out and make it in the real world and I am afraid that might not be possible for some of today’s generation in the very near

Writing stimulates the brain on both sides of the brain. Handwriting also helps identify brain injuries as well. Brain injuries sometimes damages the individuals ability to read and write but are still able to read and write cursive writing. The article"Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool" states,"As reported in a leading newspaper, some people whose brain injuries prevent them from reading or writing print or type are still able to read or write cursive. This emphasizes that cursive writing,print, and type engage different areas of the brain. By neglecting to teach cursive, we are neglecting to exercise parts of the brain that are important to thinking and learning." When my granma had a stroke she could no longer write. The stroke affected her ability to write and

Cursive writing is seen as outdated in sorts due to the quickly developing technological world. In 2012, a survey was conveyed amongst handwriting teachers and come to find out only 37% of the teachers used cursive writing. Computer skills and typing are crucial in todays world. Cursive was once used as a form of identification, people's signatures were valued. Where in todays world, signatures are not always used. We now have digital passwords, as well as thumbprints to verify identity. I would argue that cursive writing is proven to help stimulate both the left and right sides of the human brain, while as typing and print do not. It is believed that handwriting goes hand in hand with brain injuries. Tests showed that some people who had suffered brain injuries that affected their writing, typing, or print, could still write in cursive. This directly proves that cursive, type, and print use different sections of the brain. Though cursive writing excercises both parts of the brain, is it worth sacrificing needed time in todays fast acting technological world?

putting pen to paper stimulates the brain like nothing else, in this age of e-mails, text and tweets. Learning to write in cursive is shown to improve brain development in the thinking area. language and thinking. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and between the left and right hemisphere. The college board found the student who wrote in cursive for an essay portion of the SAT, slightly scored higher than the ones who printed.

Think about what you have done today before reading this. Did you brush your teeth, go to the bathroom, write something down? You probably have written something down without even knowing. Handwriting is very important in day to day life. Without it, there are many things that we could not do. If you know print that is great but you are even better off if you know cursive also. You will be able to read it, help those with disabilities,and be about to sing you signature.

The American Academy of Neurology states that if a child is to be successful throughout his or her school career as well as when communicating with others, handwriting skills are vital; furthermore, if a child is experiencing difficulty in this area, his or her self-esteem may also begin to suffer. In addition, handwriting skills increase the likelihood that a child with autism will eventually become independent.

There has been an issue all around the United States for the past twenty years. Should cursive writing be taught in schools? Schools may think that computer literacy is a better topic for kids to learn, but writing fluently should take place of that class. We all need to start considering cursive handwriting as a class topic instead of computer courses.

Cursive back in the day was one of the most important things kids had to learn but now 41 states no longer require students to learn cursive. With technology pervasive in society and fewer documents that need a cursive signature, some educators say there is no need to bother kids with the time-consuming lessons on cursive. Thanks to technology and a growing reliance on computers to complete school assignments, handwriting skills are no longer stressed as much as they once were. In fact, some children never receive cursive writing instruction. Cursive writing stimulates the brain. "Cursive writing helps train the brain to integrate visual and tactile information, and fine motor dexterity," Dr. William Klemm said in an article in Psychology Today. The skills developed from learning cursive writing cannot be replaced by using a keyboard. In addition, MRIs have revealed an interesting relationship between handwriting and the brain. The brains of people with good handwriting are more active in areas associated with cognition, language and executive function than the brains of those with poor handwriting.

Cursive writing is essintial and has been proven to be good for our minds. Phychologists found students learned and processed material better when using the cursive method. It help students summarize idea rather than just typing the words their teachers say. A study showed that over a week of taking notes, those who typed their notes did worse than those who took note with handwriting. I believe this to be very true. I think that handwriting involves using your hand, eye,

We need to keep teaching cursive in school. Cursive is far better than printing in various ways. When compared to regular printing, cursive outbeats it in every way. Classic handwriting is professional, efficient, and beneficial to the brain.

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.