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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Exactly. I make my kids learn cursive, if for no other reason than it's a lot faster than printing.
My handwriting is a hybrid of printing and cursive, mostly unreadable as well.
My oldest son did too! (He's 11.) He taught himself how to write in cursive. I told him I'd provide the curriculum, but I'd taught him how to write once and wasn't gonna again! Heh heh.
He prefers cursive when he has to write (fill in the blanks and such) but when he has to write a paper, he types it.
After a number of years doing drafting/technical illustration, (back in the stone age before AutoCad) I found myself printing most everything and I could not only do it as fast as I could cursive, but everyone, myself included, could read it afterward. ;~))
I sometimes only do my signature in half-cursive.
Cursive is stupid...what is the point?
I HATE getting letters in cursive. Sometimes they are impossible to read.
Either type it or give it to me in print.
I type most things since my handwriting sucks, probably since I am of the younger generation that mostly types as it is.
Thank goodness I could type my essay on the GRE.
They would not be able to read my handwriting.
I didn't have this essay stuff on the ACT.
When I was in elementary school, I would write decently in print.
Then I got into the habit of taking down a horrendous amount of notes beginning in middle school for each class; I was never realy taught until HS how to take notes, so I took down almost every point.
Needless to say, I had to write quickly, which dropped my ability to write clearly.
Now, it is nothing short of awful.
I try to not write everything that is said, but even then, my handwriting is just awful....I don't even write in the lines half the time.
I see a lot of people.....mostly guys though.....that have it just as bad as me or worse.
Probably a big problem with Gen X and Y.
How weird.....
Nah. Once a person has learned to tell time on an analog clock, any numerals — Roman or otherwise — are superfluous. The hands tell everything. Furthermore, depending on our need for precision, all we really need is an hour hand. ;O)
How sad.
Loss of cursive is a big thing. It is just one more step in the brain and hand-eye development of every person and child.
It needs to be taught. Actually it needs to be taught before manuscript -- printing because it is easier.
A person writing cursive never takes their pen from the paper during the writing of a words, hence it is also faster than manuscript. Let's hope the teachers wake up and start teaching it again.
I use SHORTHAND for my grocery list...I'm ALREADY totally obsolete!!
I have nice handwriting, too.
Some school teachers are very imaginative.
Alas....
A beautiful, handwritten letter can be quite sexy.
"Some school teachers are very imaginative."
Oh shut up. :P
HAHA!
Teachers NEVER shut up!
:-)
:-p
:-)
Teachers NEVER shut up!
At least you don't (then again, neither do I). ;)
Get some sometimes in an inservice class and they might talk worse than the kids.
but...but...the rules can't possibly include them!
"but...but...the rules can't possibly include them!"
The ones for not acting stupid sure don't include me!:)
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