Handwriting Writing Characteristics

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.

Natural variations are the small differences that appear in any repeated samples of a person’s handwriting. Over

Leslie mentions that she is not alone in appreciating the act of handwriting and an author named Philip Hensher wrote an entire book “The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting (and Why It Still Matters) giving Leslie more authority as other people in the world feel the same way. Following that Leslie describes writing as “essentially personal and unique rather then mechanical and mass-produced” appealing to the importance of everyones different personality which Microsoft cant compete

These people would say that handwriting is passe’, or outdated, and that in the future, everyone will be using word processors to do their writing. Education is important, but schools already have ways to get students to write, that doesn’t involve the repetitive time to practice your writing to make it better. They can enforce these rules of writing without having to practice everyday. For instance, homeschooling parents can be quite confused by the subject of handwriting, so whenever Sam Blumenfeld lectures at a homeschool convention, he always asks if parents think that handwriting should be formally taught. Usually the response is unanimously positive. Mr. Blumenfield, raised this statement for parents to think about,“So you agree that teaching your child to write is an important part of you homeschooling curriculum.”, the next question he raises is if you believe that handwriting should be formally taught, he asks “do you believe that your child should be taught manuscript, also known as “ball and stick” first or cursive first?” Most parents assume that “ball and stick should precede cursive, because that’s the way they were taught in school. ( Sam Blumenfeld, The Benefits of Cursive Writing)

Consider how long people have been writing, several thousand years. During this time human civilizations were able to authentically appropriate the act of writing, which still approaches every child learning to write as something inauthentic. There is a place and a meaning and a culture of writing within most cultures today, as we learn to type, and depend on typing more and more, the traditions of writing are becoming displaced. When was the last time you hand wrote a letter? Why bother when we can just e-mail someone immediately? Does not the mediacy of such communication lessen its importance? When you write a letter, you think about what you should say, what you want to say, and what you want to leave unsaid, the timeliness of its delivery

“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.

Sometimes when I look at the writing styles of my peers, be it on social media, emails I can sense a distinction between the different writing styles that are used. When I’m writing whether it be in an email, text or a lab report I try my best to write everything more formally and longhand, which a lot of people tend to overlook in today’s society.

In a world of evolution, it is often found difficult to accept a new trade or skill that partially substitutes a skill so commonly used and accepted today. As generations pass, people discover new things that revival the beliefs of the past and handwriting is not exempt from this course of evolution. People have hit that critical point of rivalry between handwriting and its challenger typing. Handwriting is a skill known by people for centuries and even prior to handwriting people painted or carved to record information. In today’s world, typing keeps becoming more of a key player and triumphs over hand writing in many aspects. It is imperative to understand the importance of typing, as much of what college students and employees do

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.

To understand how handwriting and the brain work. First, we need to explore what is going on from a sensory motor perspective. A sensory response is anything that comes in contact with your body that sends a message to your brain about what is happening in the environment around you. When you were in grade school, your teacher told you that you have five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. They gave you a partial truth, you have seven senses. The ones that you know are examined in the table

The five writings I plan on using are two timed writings, claim of policy, nature vs nurture, and character sketch. I chose to use these essays because they show my progression in writing through the year. They start from my lowest essay to my best eassy.

There are many writing styles that many people pick up as they go through there many years of schooling. Each person picks up the same type of writing styles but as years go by people seem to pick up there own little types of writing style that separates them from everyone else. As I have gone through many years of English classes I have acquired more and more skills and many more are sure to come as I continue my education. My writing skills have only gotten better from the time of ninth grade English class until today. Since my days back in junior high school I was only taught the basic skills to write papers and since then they have grown to make me a decent writer. I have many strengths and also

The consistence question is if handwriting really matter? And the answer is yes. According to Maria Konnikova in her articles “what’s lost as handwriting fades” (Konnikova) (2014) stated that when writing it create more brain activity than using any electronic. As a result many study showed that children who are more efficient in there writing skills will continue to gain more skills as an age; for example learning how to read, generate ideas and also the ability to retain information. Konnikova article stated that in (2014) a study was conducted by Karin James a psychologist at Indiana university shows support that children nowadays who writes free hand shows that they are more sophisticated and increased their activity in multiple part

The Physical act of penmanship in cursive leads more comprehension and participation. The fact that the boards found that cursive writers had a slightly more higher score than those who print left experts to believe it's because of the speed and efficiency