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Cursive Writing A lot of people like cursive writing, but I don’t and let me tell you why. First of all, cursive writing is a waste of time. Secondly, cursive writing is very frustrating. At last, kids just want to be themselves. In my opinion cursive writing should not be taught in schools today. To begin with, writing in cursive is a waste of time. Most of the time kids don’t want to learn or take the time to learn cursive even thoe it can easily be taught. Its very time consuming

Motivation and Introduction Handwriting has continued to persist as a means of communication and recording information in day to day life with the introduction of new technologies. Given its ubiquity in human transactions, machine recognition of handwriting has a practical significance in reading postal addresses on envelopes, in amounts in bank cheques, in handwritten fields in forms. Handwriting is a skill that is personal to individuals. Writing is considered to have made possible much of a culture

Text Line and Word Segmentation of Handwritten Documents Miss. Komal Kadam, Computer Department, Alard College of Engineering & Management, Pune. komalkadam829@gmail.com Miss. Aarti Mali, Computer Department, Alard College of Engineering & Management, Pune. aartimali30@gmail.com Miss. Dipali Phadatare, Computer Department, Alard College of Engineering & Management, Pune. dphadatare678@gmail.com Miss. Pallavi Nimbalkar, Computer Department, Alard College of Engineering & Management

Catholic schools tend to emphasize teaching cursive to their students for its historical roots and its fluidity. As a result, in third grade, my teachers spent weeks teaching my peers and I to write in cursive. Today I write in script properly, if not often, unlike many of my classmates from public schools. Although I rarely think of this superfluous skill as an asset, it comes in handy when I need to write under a time restraint. My cursive letters are quick and slanted; ink flowing in fast

Do you know why cursive should not be taught in school? Cursive should not be taught in school any longer. Communication usually involves typing and technology, not pencil and paper or cursive. Furthermore, hardly anyone uses cursive now that we have more technology. Cursive is something that you will not use everyday, you rarely use it and typing you most likely will always use. Communication usually involves typing and technology. You won't see people sending letters in cursive nowadays. We

Why we don’t need cursive writing Only seven states in the US teach cursive California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. In my opinion cursive writing should not still be taught. First of all there’s no time with the busy teachers to teach cursive, only seven states still teach it, and you really only need it for your signature. To start off, having no prier knowledge could you grandparents read it what about you kids and in school there’s no time for teachers to teach

Handwriting: Is It Really That Important? Over the past few decades, handwriting may seem almost obsolete or those that are under the age of 30. Due to the change of technology over the past 15 years, handwriting seems to suffer. Before the age of technology that bloom through the ages of until today, there were different writing styles that word pairs to use to be successful in the business world end in school. This is before the age of the modern computer and electronic typewriter. This article

Should cursive writing be taught to students in public schools? Personally, I believe cursive writing is a bit outdated in a sense. But I do not see it as a roadblock to any stepping stones if students were taught cursive writing. There are several facts and statements that add to the support of my opinion. 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%

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

Handwriting Without Tears 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.