Posted on 10/12/2006 9:30:33 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
The computer keyborad helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to kill off longhand.
When handwritten essays were intorduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.
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I haven't written anything except my signature in cursive since 1992.
While not really a homeschooling vs. public school or quality of education article, this does touch on a trend that the computer is causing, one that those interested in educational issues will want to be up on. Perhaps handwriting will go the way of the old printing press.
I use cursive for my grocery list.
F7 works regardless of keyboard or cursive.
It's a good thing that she typed this instead of writing it in cursive.
Besides, work in architecture and you'll probably never write in cursive again...or lower case letters for that matter.
I was taught the "Palmer Method' in Catholic school. Now I use cursive at work as code, because most people can't read it.
Seeing the unreadable garbage that most people write, this is no loss.
As well as spelling/typing/editing skills, apparently.
Cursive? What's that?.........a new RAP Style?........
Most people with more than half a brain develop their own cursive style as soon as they get out of elementary school (teachers seem to stop caring after that).
When I see handwriting that's written in perfect "schoolteacher" cursive, I think the writer must be a dull unimaginative person -- just like most public school teachers.
Absolutely useless skill, in my humble opinion - prioritizing style over substance. Most people's attempts at cursive produce an illegible scrawl (as any recipient of a doctor's prescription can testify), and even good cursive can be difficult to read quickly. An ability to write plain, block text clearly is all that's needed. I'd be concerned if my kids were spending time learning cursive when they could be learning math.
I write all my business correspondence in cursive when sending a handwritten letter.
But then I have very nice hand writing and I went to a public school.
Go figure.
....or electronics or any engineering area.........
Darn, you beat me to it.
I have man hands.
I think Cursive is when you write any words that begin with "F".
-PJ
We learned the Old English lettering system when I was in school. Can still do some of it, but I wouldn't use it again unless I was corresponding with a monk.........
But cursive really just means joined. For quick and legible writing, Christopher Jarman created one of the best systems.
A short introduction is available online.
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