Historical Documents In Cursive Writing

“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.

People are going to need to know how to read cursive in some famous documents. If it is not going to get taught then some of those documents are not going to to able to be read. Cursive has been around for centuries. Christopher Columbus wrote his adventures in the Americas in cursive handwriting. Thomas Jefferson penned one of our utmost famous documents “The Declaration of Independence” in cursive. People are going to need to

Did you know cursive takes away core subjects like Math and Reading? Well, it does and that’s bad because that means you could make you less smart. In my opinion, cursive writing should not be taught today. First, it takes too much time. Second, it’s frustrating for parents. Lastly, you can gain a life skill because cursive might be easy for you when you grow up.

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you didn't have cursive, at ALL? Cursive should still be taught in school. Cursive can help you with your reading and writing skills. In fact, it can also help you read cursive. Mainly, if you can't write in cursive, you can't fill out documents and bills when you get older. I hope after you read my paper you will want to keep cursive too!

To begin with, cursive writing inspires creativity. Now, most of the time people are using computers to finish assignments or take notes instead of writing them down. Instead of having to type notes and answers to assignments, being able to write things down forces you to formulate your thought and to slow down so you don’t make as many mistakes. In fact, those with good handwriting have brains that are more active in certain areas than

In the 20th century, teaching cursive writing was way more important than it is now less and less kids can’t read letters from their grandparents or other family members but everyone is on their phones and computers to wright these days people video chat all the time and that’s why in my opinion we don’t need cursive.

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.

Should cursive be put back in school? I agree with the passage "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool". Cursive writting is essential,though not for the reasons people might guess. Cursive writting has been proven to be good for our minds. A couple of reasons why i agree that cursive writting is good for the brain are writing by hand helps people to remember ideas better than typing. Also, medical brain scans show that writing in cursive helps with motor-skills development and stimulates both the right and left part of the brain.

In both of these articles the authors discuss and give reason on why cursive writing should be taught in schools, and why cursive writing is obsolete. The author of "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool" believes that cursive is essential for making our brains more stronger and functional. The ways cursive helps, is that by writing things down by hand it helps us process material better and medical brain scans show that it also helps with "fine motor-skill development and stimulates both the right and left parts of the brain". People with brain injuries might lose the ability to read in write, but in some case were still able to read and write in cursive. The author of "Cursive Is a Twenty-First Century Dinosaur", believes that cursive being removed from the classrom isn't a big deal. Saying that a survey back in 2012 at a conference was given to a group of handwriting teacher by a lead researcher. Only 37% of the handwriting teachers wrote in cursive. "If handwriting teachers don't value cursive, then why should anyone"? He/she goes on by saying that cursive is virtually gone, with technology being the

Scientific studies show that writing in cursive “promotes hand-eye coordination, visual, fine motor and memory skills” (Cooper). People do not want cursive in school because paper and pencil cursive writing is done in school only and is useless outside of school. On the other hand, people believe cursive writing should be in school because it allows children to read historical documents like the Declaration of Independence. Cursive writing should be taught in school.

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

In "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool," the author made an excellent point about how much more helpful it is to take notes using cursive rather than typing. Personally, I only write by hand when I take notes because I can remember physically using my hand to make the notes, which helps me to remember the notes and the entire situation I was in when I made them. I was also surprised to learn about the medical benefits that come along with learning cursive. For instance, the use of cursive as a teaching tool for people who suffer from dyslexia.

While writing in cursive, both sides of your brain communicate with one another. It is a fact, in paragraph 3 it says,"Medical brain scans show that writing in cursive helps with fine motor-skill development and stimukates both the right and left parts of the brain." Writing in print only stimulates half of the brain. Not only does cursive help with memorizing, and stimulating both sides of the brain but it also

Those are just a few of my many views on cursive writing. I understand why some people want to cling on to the good ol' tradtion of the past. But that's just it; It's the past. In this society you almost have no choice but to be give up the cursive, and pick up a

In my oppinion i believe that cursive should be taught in every school from 1st garde till every student graduates, why? Cursive is a very important and useful skill, knowing how to write in cursive helps with everyday things, like signing you're name for example this is needed quite a bit in our everyday lives. In the passage the narrator suggests that cursive is good for the mind, i agree 100% with this statement, writing in a neat way, and at a higher difficulty tests you're ability to remember how to write the letter for one, and two you also look more intelligent and neat.