Research Rationale Proposal

In Michaela Cullington’s article “Does Texting Affect Writing?” she addresses a superstition that the older generation of today believes to be a possible issue. This issue is the potential for texting via cell phones to negatively affect young peoples’ abilities to write correct, formal papers. In her writing, she logically dismissed these accusations by providing proof against this believe while presenting her defense in a persuasive manner.

For many students in America, cursive writing is as foreign as the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egypt. In most colleges and universities, more students are increasingly using tablet computers

For all the research methods, questionnaires and interviews, the responses will be kept confidential and all the aspects of confidentiality will be respected.

In order to maintain confidentiality of the interviews and the allegation, agreement will be signed by the staff as well as by the students in order to be safe from any further issues and problems (Gideonse, 1992).

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.

Failure to protect subject’s personal information, is an example of not complying the above two principles in the research industry. Researchers are in a position of dealing with a great deal of very personal information that their participants have agreed to disclose. Depending on the type of study, personal identifiers such as names, birthdates, places of residence etc. may or may not have to be collected. In situations where these data are collected, researchers may take several steps to ensure the confidentiality of their participants’

Developments in digital technology are expanding our understanding of “writing.” To the extent that technology is available and appropriate, by the end of their first

The article “The Writings on the Screen” by Tiffany O’Callaghan talks about how this generation reads more frequently, and the style of writing has changed immensely. Tiffany also talks about how taking notes by hand rather than a computer will help you understand the topics of the lecture, and also help you retain the information. She emphasizes on the fact that using a laptop for an educational purpose is problematic, and distracting, not only to yourself, but to others around you. This article also talks about how writing by hand forces your brain to process the information you heard.

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All information will be kept confidential for the protection of the participant, unless there is duty to do so when the participant may cause harm to themselves or to others.

Elementary schools used to have a major focus on handwriting and teaching the students how to write in cursive. There is a section on the SAT where each student has to write out a code of honorability in cursive. In the small classroom that I sat in to take the SAT, four students raised their hand and said they never learned cursive. Now, students take more time doing typing exercises on the computer. This is what technology is doing to our

Cursive, a paramount form of handwriting, has been getting washed out by countless school systems. However, many recent studies well as numerous doctors, with degrees held in both philosophy and medicine, scholars, professors, authors, college students, physiologists, researchers, and numerous other credible professionals that have dedicated their live’s work to prove that cursive needs to be brought back to the masses and taught in elementary schools around in country.

The written word is considered instrumental in capturing and disseminating human knowledge irrespective of the fact that it is written in clay, inked in a quill printed on paper or transmitted via electronic bits in email. The trend of spreading the written word is now shifting its focus on e-readers dedicatedly comprising of digital services and multipurpose tablets which could be utilized by 15 to 20% of the world's developed population by the year 2015. This emerging trend leads to new innovations in content creation and triggers a drastic change in the publishing ecosystem (Bain & Company, 2011).

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

Cursive writing has become known as the impractical font, meaning it is not an everyday writing font (Shapiro). If you were to open a magazine or a newspaper, is any of the paper going to be written in cursive (Carpenter)? Very rarely will you open up a magazine and come to a cursive-font article (Carpenter). Cursive has lost its use in day-to-day life ever since the decline of handwritten notes (Carpenter 1). The prevalence of cursive writing is obsolete and even most adults cannot read or even comprehend cursive (Supon). This is to due to the fact that most schools only focus fifteen minutes per day on handwriting and penmanship (Supon). Since time is being taken from handwriting this can result in illegible handwriting. Andrew Campbell a fourth grade teacher talked with Lisa Geyn in Today’s Parents and said, “There are seventy-eight separate learning expectations… We cannot add new skills and expect children to master them, plus all the traditional skills. Something has to give,” (Geyn). Mr. Campbell made it clear as to why